As a Pathfinder 2e sicko, I’m excited for Starfinder: Afterlight after playing an hour of its playtest—but Epictellers has a lot of work to do before demo time this summer

I’m rather excited for Starfinder: Afterlight, mostly because it’s the closest—beyond charming indie projects like Dawnsbury Days—I’m going to get to a fully-realised Pathfinder 2e videogame in the near future. It uses Starfinder 2e, but the base rules chassis is very much the same. I was also rather taken by its visual presentation. It’s clear…

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You know it’s bad when RAM manufacturers launch dummy kits to make it look as though you have dual-channel memory when you actually don’t

I’ve used dummy RAM kits before. Usually, a pair of DIMMs that contain no memory chips is simply acting as a shell to match other functioning DIMMs in the remaining slots, often with RGB lighting to match. They’re hella satisfying, I must admit, but, ultimately, needless. That’s what I thought this V-color announcement was all…

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‘Sims don’t plan anything’ says former Sims 4 developer, though he always wanted to program them to: ‘it’s always shot down, rightfully so’

At their core, sims are hedonistic little squirrels constantly meeting their needs one moment at a time without any ability to think through a sequence of actions. That’s by design, one Sims 4 developer says, but he always wanted sims to have a more thoughtful approach to their own lives when left to their own…

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Pragmata Loves Being a Video Game

Category: Games March 18, 2026 Pragmata Loves Being a Video Game Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief The last time I played Pragmata, I came away delighted by how it was inserting a truly new idea into a very familiar genre, building a hacking minigame into the fabric of third-person shooter combat. Almost a year later,…

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China reportedly approves imports of Nvidia’s H200 GPU, but the US government may cap exports to individual Chinese companies

We reported recently that the US government may cap exports of Nvidia’s H200 chip to China. But for that cap to be meaningful, China would need to approve imports of H200 in the first place. According to multiple sources, that has now happened. Both Reuters and the Wall Street Journal report that Chinese authorities have…

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 ‘opened a new avenue’ up for Daredevil actor Charlie Cox as he announces taking part in another videogame later this year

Charlie Cox, an actor best known for his work as Matt Murdock otherwise known as Daredevil in Marvel’s TV series Daredevil has recently made his way into the world of videogames. He voiced Gustave, a major part in one of last year’s most successful games, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. He’d made it clear a few…

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AI is the villain in Pragmata, but director Cho Yonghee wants to stress that his evil AI is slightly different to our real-life evil AI thanks to ‘the presence of an AI character like Diana’

There are just some things that lend themselves to being great villains. There’s snakes and Brits (aren’t they the same thing, aha!) but there’s also been the long-used theme of an artificial intelligence that gains sentience and then immediately realises that humans suck, and so tries to do away with us all. We’ve had infamous…

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