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Limited Run Games Announces Widespread Delays, Concedes Delivery Dates Were “Too Aggressive” & “Overly Optimistic”

The company has once again promised to do better. Over the past week, Limited Run Games has sent out a mass email to its customers announcing delays for many of its upcoming titles, which it blames on “overly optimistic” and “aggressive” delivery dates set under its former leadership. Following the news earlier this year that…

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A Pokopia player has spent 260 hours over 22 days recreating an underground Cyberpunk city: ‘I swear to god, you people aren’t human’

An easy way to feel insecure as a Pokopia player is to just hop onto Reddit and see all the spectacular creations other players are cooking up. There are some seriously impressive builds to be seen, like Resident Evil 2’s RPD. My favourite so far is a Cyberpunk underground city by Pokopia player No-Communication7040. Heading…

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Looks like DDR3 motherboards are back on the menu, boys, though only to keep older PCs going a bit longer during the RAMpocalypse

Many businesses around the world use old PCs to run machinery or handle inventory, simply because you don’t need a latest-generation processor to churn out a bit of code. Eventually, though, they will fail, but what happens when new prices for parts are sky-high because of the global memory crisis? According to one source, it…

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AMD’s senior director of AI thinks ‘Claude has regressed’ and that it ‘cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering’

Anthropic’s Claude has reportedly gotten much worse at generating code recently. That’s according to a head member of the AI Group at AMD. Last week, user StellarAccident took to the Claude Code GitHub to vent their frustrations at Claude’s AI-generated code. This account was soon discovered to be tied to Stellar Laurenzo, the senior director…

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Adventure Land – by Ryan Burger

Before home computers ever had an “adventure game,” there was Colossal Cave Adventure (1976- 1977) by Will Crowther and Don Woods. Often referred to simply as Adventure or ADVENT, it ran on a PDP-10 mainframe, a machine that cost about $150,000 in the 1970s, roughly $1,000,000 in today’s dollars. That kind of setup made sense…

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