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The United Kingdom’s Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) has signed a new “memorandum of understanding” with OpenAI, a non-binding document that will nevertheless see the unaccountable chatbot maker thrusting its technology into any area of the UK public sector that smells vaguely like money. Ain’t life grand. For its part, the UK’s Labour…

When asked how it could justify an $80 price tag for upcoming RPG The Outer Worlds 2, developer Obsidian had a sympathetic response: Ask Microsoft. Ask we all did, and it seems the Xbox overlords eventually agreed with the public’s bafflement—or at least didn’t like the looks of The Outer Worlds 2’s pre-order numbers—because Obsidian…

I played Final Fantasy 11 for the first time in 2024 after an episode of the Abnormal Mapping podcast poisoned me with brainworms hungry for an MMO that, since its launch in 2002, has been left largely untouched by the genre conventions World of Warcraft would formalize in the years that followed. It’s like an…

The Trump administration today unveiled its AI action plan, in accordance with the President’s prior executive order to “remove barriers to American leadership in artificial intelligence.” The key policies include: Exporting American AI: The Commerce and State Departments will partner with industry to deliver secure, full-stack AI export packages – including hardware, models, software, applications, and…

Am I a pro? Not a bit of it. But do I appreciate a quality gaming mouse aimed squarely at that professional gaming crowd? That would be a yes, especially when it’s crafted like the Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro. Now, I’ve been using the last-generation DeathAdder V3 Pro as my standard gaming mouse since it…

There’s nothing quite so alluring to your average Warhammer player as something that used to be available and now isn’t. Armies originally discontinued due to lack of interest build up a new mystique that eventually has the community begging for their return. Previously, that kind of revival has been rare, but the 2020s seem to…

Supermassive, developer of Until Dawn and Little Nightmares, is set to lay off another 36 employees before the release of Directive 8020, which is now being delayed to 2026. While the game itself looks interesting, trading the Wendigo for Ridley-esque alien horrors, there’ll be around three dozen staff not making it to launch day. That’s…

Julian LeFay, a programmer and engineer with a storied games industry career, has died at the age of 59 years old. The news was announced by OnceLost Games, a company LeFay co-founded, following last week’s news that he would be retiring “to live his final moments surrounded by his loved ones.” LeFay had such a…

Dan Marshall was 24 when he picked up C++ for Dummies. “I’ve left this too late,” he thought. “I’m too past-it to be learning a new skill like programming. Damn it, why didn’t I learn this in school?” Two decades on, Marshall has led the development of no fewer than three games with 80+% review…

Battlefield 6 is seeming pretty close to fully brewed, judging by recent stirrings, but if you’re a bit of a techy tinkerer you might be disappointed to hear that it seems the game will require you have Secure Boot enabled to play. As brought to my attention by an X post from Pirat_Nation, an EA…