The Fridge

Hours before its open preview weekend, Marathon is suddenly very close to the top of Steam’s top sellers list

There’s a lot riding on Marathon, potentially even the fate of legendary developer Bungie given the current state of Destiny, which has been carrying the studio’s baton for years. Now it’s time to pass the burden onto Marathon, I guess, while the studio figures out what it’s doing with Destiny going forward. After divisive playtests…

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Google says it’s disrupted a super-serious ‘global espionage campaign’ that uses *checks notes* Google Sheets to covertly intercept telecoms data

Google Sheets is perhaps my most disliked member of the Google Workplace suite. It’s not that it’s bad at what it does, more that it’s a deathly-dull spreadsheet editor that I loathe having to stare at for more than five minutes. But lo and indeed behold, because Google says it’s caught Sheets being used in…

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The Nostalgia Factor in Online Gambling

Retro themes are everywhere in online casino games, especially in slots. Pixelated fruit symbols, chiptune soundtracks and arcade cabinet aesthetics are some of the design features used to play on the nostalgia factor. Nostalgia in gambling products isn’t just a visual trend or for fun; it draws on well-documented psychological mechanisms that shape how players…

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Pope Leo’s on the warpath about AI again, and this time he’s telling off priests for using it to write their sermons: ‘The Pope invited us to use our brains more’

As my esteemed colleague Joshua Wolens once wrote, I “never thought I’d die fighting side-by-side with the Pope.” Pope Leo XIV has made AI a key theme of his papacy, and his thoughts on the technology at times could not be clearer: he says it’s “turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts”. In a…

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Logitech G325 Lightspeed review

The budget wireless gaming headset market is in such a tough spot right now. That’s partly because the mid-range is absolutely knocking it out of the park, and partly because with the word ‘budget’ often comes the denigrative terms ‘cheap’, ‘flimsy’, or ‘yeah, this sounds kinda bad’. Okay, that last one isn’t very snappy, but…

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