I levelled up ‘Grief’ and ‘Repentance’ in this bizarre Steam Next Fest demo about a Russian nun who chats with Satan, and it instantly became my most-anticipated game this year

No game has ever read The Master and Margarita as much as Indika has read The Master and Margarita. A third-person adventure game from Odd Meter, a Russian studio that left the country after the invasion of Ukraine, Indika already seems like so much more than that clatter of marketing-team-whiteboard genre adjectives makes it sound,…

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has a free trial starting tomorrow, which is probably the best way to play Activision’s underwhelming sequel

Season 2 of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 starts today, though you’d be forgiven for dismissing it outright considering how poorly received Activision’s latest FPS behemoth was. But there’s also a free trial of the game kicking off tomorrow, and considering what the trial offers, it might just be worth paying attention to. Running…

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A wargame experiment pitting AI chatbots against each other ended exactly how you’d expect

Governments are increasingly considering integrating autonomous AI agents in high-stakes military and foreign-policy decision-making. That’s the pithy, dispassionate observation of a recent study from a collective of US universities. So, they set out to discover just how the latest AI models behave when pitched against one another in a range of wargame scenarios. The results…

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