Space Invaders – by Brett Weiss

I discovered Space Invaders in 1978,Space was visiting my aunt and cousins in McGregor, Texas (outside of Waco), a town of barely over 2,000 people. It was in a dingy, seedy arcade and was very imposing. I’d already played my share of pinball and electromechanical games, as well as early video titles like Pong, Breakout,…

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Tarn Adams, co-creator of Dwarf Fortress, has over 1,400 hours in Factorio and is currently obsessed with terraforming games: ‘Dwarf Fortress just doesn’t accommodate a full-on sci-fi thing’

Disk Cleanup Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend column delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” Tarn Adams cannot recall exactly when he first got into…

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It’s not just Arrow Lake that’s been refreshed: Intel’s whole approach to the consumer market seems like a new direction

Nick Evanson, Hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This month I have been: mostly testing Intel’s new Arrow Lake Refresh chips, but I’ve also been checking out Nvidia’s new Dynamic Multi Frame Generation. I’ve been despondently staring at DRAM prices in the vain hope that I’ll stumble across an affordable 64 GB kit to update my…

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