After losing his father to cancer, mega streamer Shroud is running a January ‘Fragathon’ where he’ll donate to cancer research for each in-game kill

Streamer and former pro FPS player Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek has announced a January “Fragathon” for charity, with the main event being a promise to donate $1 (with potential multipliers) for every kill he scores on-stream over the coming month. “Last year, I lost my dad to cancer, and ever since I’ve been looking for ways…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Sunday, January 5

Whether you’re hoping to find a bit of a helping hand, or you’d really just like to make sure you win your daily Wordle, we’ve got something here for you. Get yourself in the right frame of mind with our general tips and tricks, move onto our hint for the January 5 (1926) game if…

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Meta wants AI characters to fill up Facebook and Instagram ‘kind of in the same way accounts do,’ but also had to delete a humiliating first run of its official bots

The conspiratorial “dead internet theory“—that most online activity is just a haze of self-perpetuating algorithmic noise⁠—is not true, yet, but it sure seems like some people really want to get us there as quickly as possible. As reported by 404 Media, Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta has hastily deleted a swathe of experimental AI…

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Minecraft creator Notch says that he ‘basically announced minecraft 2’ with a Twitter poll and a commitment to making a spiritual successor

Original Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson has stated on Twitter that his next game will be a Minecraft spiritual successor and that he “basically announced minecraft 2.” Notch had run a Twitter poll asking followers to weigh in on whether he should keep his in-development project’s current direction, or put it on the shelf to…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Saturday, January 4

Make your daily Wordle a silky-smooth breeze with our help. If that looks like a quick trip to today’s answer, then click away and enjoy a record breaking win. If you’re happy to spend some time improving your own puzzle solving, then our tips are ready when you are. And if you just need a…

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Civilization 7 senior historian prays it’ll be a ‘gateway drug’ into textbooks: ‘I teach undergraduates in my other life, and my God, man, they don’t read’

The Civilization games are full of historical information, but it’s mixed together and cut with fantastical contrivances that make it fun to play—which is how I recently went toe-to-toe with Harriet Tubman as Han Dynasty emperor Niccolò Machiavelli when I played Civilization 7 for this month’s PC Gamer cover feature. The games aren’t history tutors,…

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Floridians appear to be frantically Google searching for VPNs in the wake of the state’s invasive porn ban

First reported by Newsweek, Google Trends has revealed a completely predictable knock-on effect from the US state of Florida’s new ID requirement for accessing internet pornography: Everybody’s trying to get in on the VPN game. Newsweek specifically homed in on the search metrics for “free vpn” via Google Trends, which has spiked over each of…

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