On his 75th birthday, Apple legend Steve Wozniak pops up in a comment thread about his ‘bad decision’ to sell his stock in the ’80s with a devastatingly zen reply: ‘I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for’

If Steve Wozniak had “only” designed the Apple II, one of the foundational computers of the early PC era, he’d still be a computing legend. But after leaving Apple in the mid-’80s Wozniak went on to help establish the Electronic Frontier Foundation, sponsored the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose, and has spent the last…

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Upcoming shooter Reaper Actual throws up some big red flags, but its creators are MMO and FPS heavyweights who can’t easily be dismissed

Reaper Actual is a hard sell. It’s a plain-looking modern military extraction shooter with Web3 stuff, and I’ve seen enough of those to know that I’d probably rather be playing Battlefield. But the man behind Reaper Actual, former Sony Online Entertainment and Daybreak head John Smedley, has snared me before. I spent a whole summer…

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‘The Day Before 2?’: Everyone is skeptical about this survival game promising a map five times the size of DayZ and 5,000 players per server

Survival game fans are an eternally hopeful lot. We’re always on the lookout for the next great open world sandbox offering up a new survival experience. Your game has base-building? Crafting? Exploring? Survival systems? You’ve already got our attention. But we’re a wary group, too. We’ve been burned far too many times in the past….

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