He died over two years ago, but we’re only now getting permission to report it. On Friday, 12th January 2024, the head of Mitchell Corporation and industry veteran Roy Ozaki passed away. He was born in Kobe on 31st December 1950 and was 73 years old. This is the first public news of his death…
Open-source dev teams have been fighting a rising tide of AI slop contributions ever since LLM tech was loosed upon the Earth, as we documented earlier this year with news that free and open-source game engine Godot was buckling under the weight of AI-generated pull requests (or PRs—that is, code contributions asking to be ‘pulled’…
The puzzle game Wordle, onetime viral sensation and now a daily fixture of the New York Times, is becoming a gameshow that will be broadcast in both the UK and US. Broadcaster NBC is behind the TV adaptation, which will be filmed in Manchester, England, and hosted by Savannah Guthrie, who currently presents the network’s…
With AI sucking up much of the supply, memory hasn’t been in the best state as of late, in regard to both price and availability. This, unfortunately, makes it fertile ground for scammers, and we’re starting to see convincing DDR5 counterfeits. As noted by @taki_pc_1115 on X, “At first glance, they look like regular memory…
“I live for that s***”. Reigning WWE Champion and video game lover Cody Rhodes has revealed that his love for Zelda landed him in hot water with Nintendo. Well, lukewarm water, perhaps – he got a letter from Nintendo. Calling it a “cease and desist” in the classic Nintendo style (but also “very kind”), the…
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There’s a sadness in the technosphere right now, ain’t there? This overwhelming disappointment that sort of lingers at the back of your mind like unkempt cable management. Enough journalists have called out the enshittification of PC gaming (or platform decay as us sophisticated lot call it), I’m certainly not the first in that regard. But…
So, Mixtape. In case you’ve been wisely keeping out of the loop, Mixtape released last week to a series of rave reviews online. I went ahead and played it, giving it a 74 in our Mixtape review (which I would like to take a moment to remind people is a good score) but it didn’t…
One of the objectives you’ll need to complete as medical officer Samantha Cooper in episode 5 of Directive 8020 follows on from an interaction where Anders asks you to help her get some sedatives for an “experiment” she wants to conduct. Not suspicious at all. If you’ve spent more time working on Cooper’s “playful” personality,…