Dune: Awakening’s dungeons are so atrocious that I’d rather get slowly digested by a sandworm than fight through another one

It’s 8 pm on Arrakis and I’ve been on a crafting binge. I’m not normally the sort of ex-convict-turned-desert-nomad who’s into the whole crafting bollocks. I am, however, absolutely flipping nuts for Dune, so the ability to slap together stillsuits and Holtzman shields and all sorts of fun Herbert-adjacent nonsense has tickled my brain in…

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OpenAI head Sam Altman claims a single ChatGPT query uses ‘one 15th of a teaspoon’ of water but that doesn’t put AI’s environmental impact in the clear

In a blog post on Tuesday(via The Verge), OpenAI supremo Sam Altman said that a typical ChatGPT query uses ‘roughly one 15th of a teaspoon’ of water. Altman doesn’t go into any detail over that claim, including whether it’s a consequence of the cooling hardware used to manage server computers or also the broader environmental…

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After beating Elden Ring Nightreign’s bosses with ‘mind control,’ Twitch streamer PerriKaryal may turn her big brain to Nintendo next

PerriKaryal is a tech creator on Twitch with a Master’s degree in psychology, and she ain’t afraid to use it. Her latest headlining project is a largely hands-free control scheme using an EEG. The brain cap detects distinct peaks of brain activity, which the streamer’s brain-computer-interface coding then interprets as gamepad inputs. So, yes, of…

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Anonymous employee accuses RuneScape of kowtowing to Trump as it puts the kibosh on new Pride events: ‘The content… is now controversial in a way it didn’t used to be’

Players are in an uproar after an anonymous Jagex employee, speaking to Pink News, accused the RuneScape and Old School RuneScape (OSRS) dev of deliberately curtailing its Pride Month celebrations in response to the American government’s assault on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives. The announcement that RuneScape and OSRS wouldn’t be running—or would at…

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Dispatch is the first Telltale-style game I’ve played that’s delivering on the promise of playing a TV show, and it’s even got a compelling management sim tucked inside, too

Dispatch is the first game out of AdHoc—a studio that contains several directors and developers from Telltale Games’ height of popularity. Featured in our own PC Gaming Show, Dispatch also has a demo out for Steam Next Fest, and after playing it, my only complaint is that I want to see more. I’ve always had…

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Resident Evil Requiem’s behind-closed-doors demo was weirdly boring, but it’s got me donning a tin foil hat and joining the ‘Leon’s back’ chants

Capcom will have many opportunities to show off Resident Evil Requiem between now and its February 27, 2026 release date, but its first was kind of a bust. Behind the closed doors of Capcom’s booth at Summer Game Fest, I watched a theater presentation of a hands-off Requiem demo that featured one puzzle, zero guns,…

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Ex-Intel engineers are developing the ‘biggest, baddest CPU in the world’ by targeting IPC, not clockspeed or core counts

Intel, CPUs, and the concept of “badness” aren’t necessarily things you’d want to shout about, what with numerous well-documented issues afflicting Intel’s recent processors. But a new Oregon-based startup called AheadComputing is leaning hard on the Intel provenance of its founders while claiming that it is creating, “the biggest, baddest CPU in the world.” And…

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