‘EA always preferred Mass Effect, straight up’: Dragon Age creator reveals that his and Mass Effect’s team ‘didn’t get along’ at BioWare, as EA played favourites with its children

It sure seems like the sun is setting on Dragon Age—with Veilguard falling short of expectations after years in development, EA seemingly learning exactly the wrong lessons, and sweeping layoffs including senior talent, I’m not holding my breath for the future. In my view, Veilguard was a semi-decent action RPG with a fumbled story, which…

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Best Schedule 1 barn setup and layout

So you’ve gone from a motel room to an apartment and a bungalow, and now it’s time for the barn. This building finally gives you enough space to properly play around with fully automated production lines in Schedule 1, letting you make heaps of cash without lifting a finger. You’ll still have to take the…

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I know tariff-related price increases are a thing right now but a $1,371 motherboard might be pushing it, even if it is ‘Extreme’

Our newsfeeds have been dominated by one word over the past few weeks, and that word is “tariff”. President Trump’s favourite word, apparently. His administration’s international trade policies have thrown markets the world over into something of a loop. Still, even among all this pricing turmoil, there’s really no excuse for a $1,371 motherboard, is…

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Trump administration exempts phones and most computing hardware from tariffs and then says they’re not really exempt, just being lined up for a very special tariff ‘bucket’ of their own

On Friday, the Trump administration exempted smartphones and a load of other computing related hardware from the monstrous 145% tariffs being applied to goods from China. But by Sunday, the President already seemed to be winding back on the winding back, explaining on Truth Social that there were no exemptions, it’s just those product classes…

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Silicon Valley crosswalks hacked to play satirical messages from Musk and Zuckerberg impersonators: ‘It’s normal to feel uncomfortable or even violated as we forcefully insert AI into every facet of your conscious experience’

Citizens from several Silicon Valley communities have been capturing videos of crosswalk buttons that appear to have been hacked in an unusual way. Rather than the usual messages warning about traffic safety, the buttons instead appear to play satirical messages from Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg soundalikes. One Zuckerberg-a-like infected crosswalk reportedly told would-be traffic…

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