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The premise of Pragmata may seem utterly unfathomable right now so I’ll try and break it down for you: an evil AI takes over a lunar research station, and being evil, it tries to eradicate our human protagonist Hugh and his android companion Diana. Ok, that’s actually pretty fathomable right now. Funnily enough, the hardest…
More than a year after the launch of Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, the first official story expansion has been revealed as Cost of Hope, “a new chapter of a well-known conflict” between Duty and Freedom, two of the Exclusion Zone’s most powerful factions. Duty and Freedom hold directly opposing views—Duty believes the Zone must…
Devolver Digital lifted the lid on a new Serious Sam game during today’s Xbox showcase, and it’s a little bit different from the ones that have come before. Serious Sam: Shatterverse is a run-based multiplayer FPS for up to five players, each of them a Sam from a different dimension, who travel through a multiverse…
When I retire (who am I kidding), I’d like to have a proper workshop. I’ve always been a tinkerer, someone who likes to take apart bits of engineering to see exactly how they work. Which is why I feel a certain kinship with David Schütz, who’s been cracking open Tesla Model 3 computers on their…
Personally, I’ve yet to see significant evidence of burn-in on any OLED panel I’ve used, be that desktop, laptop or phone. But I can’t quite shift the notion that it’s a long-term risk. But not enough of a risk, it seems, to stop the market for OLED monitors taking off last year, with sales nearly…
The world of AI boffins really is baffling, sometimes. I’m finally used to the idea that I can chat to a non-sentient, very knowledgeable and occasionally hallucinatory machine, and already we’re talking about AI models interacting with AI models. It’s only in such a world that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang could think to utter the…
Completing the Sanctum of Temperance puzzle in Crimson Desert first requires you to unlock the Witch faction questline in Chapter 3’s main quest. These vendors let you slot Abyss Gears, but they also unlock all of the sanctum puzzles across Hernand, letting you actually engage with them versus it just giving you a message that…
If you’ve never heard of Q-Day, the moment when quantum computers become capable of breaking traditional encryption methods and exposing vast amounts of data, often referred to as the ‘quantum apocalypse‘, then Google’s latest announcement might come as something of a shock. The company is giving itself a 2029 timeline to “secure the quantum era”…
The term “K-shaped economy” is one that economists and finance writers came up with to avoid having to say “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.”* It goes like this: as the economy recovers from shocks like the Covid-19 pandemic, the recovery is uneven across sectors and income levels. The already-affluent at the…
R2-D2 is proof that the humble astromech droid is the unsung hero of the galaxy far, far away. During every climactic space battle, bombing run, and ill-considered marriage between dignitary and warrior monk, there was a heroic animate trashcan nearby guiding the course of history. Star Wars wouldn’t be the same without the astromech’s nobility…