Final Fantasy 14’s gonna be shaking up how it handles difficulty come patch 7.35, after a mini-disaster with patch 7.25’s Occult Crescent back in May. To put a long story short, Creative Studio 3’s somewhat fumbled approach to content difficulty came to a head; the Forked Tower somehow managed to thread the needle, becoming a…

Great news: Hideo Kojima already knows just what he wants Death Stranding 3 to be. Bad news: some other poor sod is gonna have to make it, because Kojima’s very busy converting Willem Dafoe into an Ogg Vorbis file or whatever it is he does these days. Kojima let slip the news (via GamesRadar) at…

Like a cut episode of Black Mirror, a ransomware has been spotted that prompts AI to cause havoc in machines. Naturally, it’s called PromptLock, and it reportedly uses OpenAI’s gpt-oss-20b, which means it doesn’t need a constant connection to the internet to operate. According to Eset Research (via Tom’s Hardware), this new ransomware uses “the…

The office of the president of Microsoft, Brad Smith, was briefly occupied by protesters yesterday. Seven people affiliated with a group known as “No Azure for Apartheid” were arrested and eventually removed from Smith’s office by local police. Two of the seven are said to be current Microsoft employees. According to the Verge, the protesters…

I’ve spent my day thoroughly updating our best 14-inch gaming laptop guide, and the new top spot is no surprise—it’s the magnificent Razer Blade 14. However, it’s still a pricey beast, so if you’re tight with the pennies like me you’ll be looking for the best bang for your buck instead. Which is why I’ve…