Amanita Design teases the Orwell-inspired Phonopolis with a surprisingly funny demo about messing with people, running from the cops, and fighting fascism even when you don’t really want to

Amanita Design is one of my long-standing favorites. It was the studio’s 2009 robot adventure Machinarium that hooked me, but Botanicula, the Samorost games, the madcap Chuchel—they’re all brilliantly creative works. So when I saw that a demo for its next game, Phonopolis, had dropped into the Steam Next Fest, I was all over it….

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Resident Evil director Paul W. S. Anderson says he’s got no time for people who do game adaptations without playing them—’That’s outrageous’

Director Paul W. S. Anderson, who helmed the likes of Mortal Kombat (1995), Resident Evil (2002), and Monster Hunter (2021), has just done a new interview on Chris Plante’s (excellent) podcast Post Games. It’s a lengthy and enjoyable listen, and Anderson speaks at some length about the thought process behind that first Resident Evil movie…

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‘The compute bottleneck is massively under appreciated’ says Google AI Studio lead: ‘I would guess the gap between supply and demand is growing [by a] single digit % every day’

As the AI boom continues to, well, boom, it’s not surprising that some are questioning the viability of rampant AI adoption, and the pace at which the hardware supply chain underneath it has to keep up. One such commenter on the subject is none other than the product lead for Google AI Studio, Logan Kilpatrick….

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Arc Raiders’ Shrouded Sky added lots of cool new toys, but my favourite part is the new quality-of-life features that have flown under the radar

Of course, it’s expected that the thing everyone’s talking about in a new content drop in Arc Raiders is… the content. And the Shrouded Sky update delivered on that part, with the Controlled Access Zone on Dam Battlegrounds, five new quests, two new Arc machines (Firefly and Comet), the Weather Monitor project, and the admittedly…

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I thought the Midnight Ramen Shop demo might scratch the Papa’s Pizzeria itch, but it actually just made me realise I could never run a ramen shop after getting everyone’s orders wrong on purpose

I love a good restaurant management simulator. There’s something oddly satisfying about frantically rushing around trying to complete orders before your customers storm out of the door, muttering something under their breath about you. As much as I love this chaos though, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t keen to find a game…

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PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for March: PGA Tour 2K25, Monster Hunter Rise, Slime Rancher 2, The Elder Scrolls Online Collection: Gold Road

PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for March: PGA Tour 2K25, Monster Hunter Rise, Slime Rancher 2, The Elder Scrolls Online Collection: Gold Road

March’s PlayStation Plus Monthly Games lineup features four games available to all PlayStation Plus members*.  Improve your swing on the green in PGA Tour 2K25, seek out adventure in Monster Hunter Rise, enjoy a mix of farm sim meets first-person adventure with Slime Rancher 2, and explore a massive multiplayer fantasy world in The Elder…

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