2024

Baldur’s Gate 3 has something called Honour Mode—an optional, permadeath difficulty that’s supposed to be the hardest challenge it has to offer. Naturally, a speedrunner just cleared it in under 20 minutes. While I was over here laboriously planning builds and tentatively shuffling my way through three acts of terrifying boss fights, Mae was studying…

You don’t need to be a professional content creator or an expert in data analysis to know that when it comes to GPUs for these roles, one manufacturer dominates the market: Nvidia. That’s almost entirely down to CUDA, a programming platform that’s been around for years. AMD has its own system called ROCm but it’s…

“I finally tried Apple’s Vision Pro. I have to say before this I expected that Quest would be better value,” reveals Meta CEO and social media mega-magnate Mark Zuckerberg. “But after using it, I don’t just think that Quest is better value. It’s the better product, period.” Well, there’s a shock.  In a video posted…

Playing Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor’s demo last year, I already felt like I’d discovered a promising vein of gold. Playing a preview of the game’s full Early Access build this week has been like digging through and finding a whole glittering cavern of riches. As a big fan of Vampire Survivors-inspired games, I think this…

We’re all a bit iffy about flying Boeings ever since that plane had its door ripped off, so why not try an alternative? For instance, the gargantuan mechanical dragonflies that dotted the skies above the Butlerian Jihad of 200 BG to 108 BG? Those have so many moving parts that could go horribly wrong that…