Star Wars Zero Company devs said ‘there were some fights’ about its story-centric squadmates suffering permadeath, but accepting that ‘Star Wars is about loss’ made the game stronger

Our hands-on preview of Star Wars Zero Company might’ve left us convinced that it’s more than just Star Wars XCOM, but just like with clone troopers and bounty hunters, there’s clearly some crucial DNA being shared. As with XCOM, Zero Company’s rogue padawans and plucky astromechs will risk permadeath whenever they take the field. While…

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World of Warcraft: Midnight review

World of Warcraft: Midnight is one of the most ambitious expansions in the game’s 20-year history, and I don’t entirely mean that as a compliment. Blizzard is taking its biggest swings in years, and sometimes Midnight whiffs—but just as often this expansion smashes it, dosing you with a hit of pure refined nostalgia in the…

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Senator Bernie Sanders announces bill to pause US data center construction: ‘AI and robotics will impact our economy, our democracy, our privacy rights… even our very survival as human beings on this planet’

US senator Bernie Sanders has announced a new bill calling for a pause on the construction of new data centers in the United States, alongside Democratic representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The AI Data Center Moratorium Act aims to buy time for US lawmakers to put into place regulations around AI and AI data center expansion, taking…

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