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The maker of Prototype and Simpsons: Hit and Run returns from the grave just months after an out-of-the-blue update broke Prototype’s mods and added mysterious new credits

In news that will be deeply intriguing for a certain brand of rapidly-ageing millennial (me), it’s looking more and more like that susurrus of a Prototype remaster from last year might actually bear fruit. I say this because, as spotted by VGC, Prototype’s original studio seems to have reforged itself in a new form. New…

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Looking Back at Dossun! Ganseki Battle

  For almost as long as there have been puzzle games, there have been puzzle fighters. The two-player version of games like Tetris and Puyo Puyo generally work by having garbage pieces added to the other player’s screen whenever one player clears a lot of the board. Where Dossun! Ganseki Battle breaks the format is…

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The company behind the machines that make pretty much all our computer chips reckons it has worked out how to increase production capacity by 50%

If you haven’t heard of ASML, it’s the company that makes the machines upon which modern computing currently depends. Without ASML, well, computer chips would be very different. And now ASML is claiming a breakthrough in one of the key bottlenecks for manufacturing cutting-edge silicon thanks to a big boost in light production. ASML currently…

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