X-COM’s creator wants to make a sequel to his spiritual successor, despite it being a ‘very difficult project’

Phoenix Point is one of the X-COM tree’s most interesting branches. Where Firaxis created a modern, flashy, accessible variation of the original X-COM, the series creator, Julian Gollop, took a different approach. Phoenix Point maintained the original’s complexity, elevated the strategic side of things dramatically and gave us tactical battles built on a detailed physics…

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Folks falling for LLM chatbots often end up with AI girlfriends ‘unintentionally,’ claims new study

A new study out of MIT offers a first-of-its-kind large-scale computational analysis exploring the how and why of folks falling for AI chatbots. The research team dove into subreddit r/MyBoyfriendIsAI, a community of folks that sometimes ironically, sometimes more seriously refer to AI bots like ChatGPT as their romantic other half. The team found that…

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Pocketpair announces Palfarm, a Palworld ‘cozy life’ farm sim spinoff where you can still give a monkey an assault rifle, but like, cozily

Since its launch, I’ve believed Palworld’s creature management systems would’ve made for a more interesting game if they weren’t buried under its preoccupation with OSHA violations. It seems I’m not the only one who thought developer Pocketpair was leaving that potential untapped, because yesterday the studio announced Palfarm, a farming sim spinoff in the Palworld…

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The keyboard that all other keyboards copied turns 40 this year: here’s how the IBM Model M’s legacy lives on today

The keyboard that gave us the standardised layout on both sides of the Atlantic, with its quintessential 100% form factor and classic buckling spring mechanical keys (in most instances), is about to have its midlife crisis. In typical fashion, it’s off to buy an expensive convertible. There’s no doubt that the Model M is a…

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