All 3 original Stalker games get ‘fully remastered and optimized’ versions next week, free for OG owners, and I can’t wait to get shredded by an anomaly from the comfort of my sofa

Just before the Christmas break, I capped off 2024 with a news piece about GSC’s surprise announcement that it would be putting out gleaming “next-gen patches” for the original Stalker trilogy—Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky, and Call of Pripyat—on PC. The studio was maddeningly vague about what the heck that actually meant, though, so I…

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‘I missed it, I missed it all’: the guy behind the Metal Gear song that goes with everything was ‘two years’ late to the meme because nobody told him about it

A little fun fact I didn’t know until recently: Jason Charles Miller—lead vocalist of Godhead, but more well-known among MMO sickos like me for being the voice behind iconic Final Fantasy 14 tracks like To the Edge, Close in the Distance, and Unleashed from the newest Arcadion raid tier—is the guy who sang Rules of…

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Don’t swap out your pants just yet, Helldivers 2 might be getting another update next week to coincide with the battle for Super Earth

A long, drawn-out Helldivers 2 ARG culminated in a major update for the game—one which added new Illuminate enemies, weapon customisation, and a looming threat that will inevitably arrive at Super Earth and threaten the foundations of Democracy itself. I’ve been having a blast so far, even if the new Stringray unit has been a…

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Expert criticizes Gigabyte’s alleged use of ‘viscous paste with questionable long-term performance’ instead of tried and tested GPU cooling solution

Users have shown Gigabyte cards are leaking some of the thermal gel used to keep their memory/VRM cool when placed on their side. Igor’s Lab, an expert on all things thermal paste, has gone hands-on to try to explain it, not just to understand why this is happening but also why manufacturers may choose a…

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UK House of Lords backs amendment to AI bill thanks to peer vote that forces companies to reveal copyrighted material used in training AI models

In a sentence that reads like something out of a very derivative sci-fi novella, peers in the House of Lords have pushed back against the United Kingdom government’s bill around training AIs. Yes, this is exactly the kind of future I imagined living in. Not the cool one with flying electric vehicles. As the Guardian…

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