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Endgame events are a big deal for Total War players. Most of us remember the Mongols and Timurids invading in Medieval 2—both the sense of anticipation as we prepared for their arrival, and the monumental battles that took place as we tried to survive their onslaught. They’re just one of the many features that make…
Microsoft has been extremely busy lately, taking a well-earned break from polluting the world with AI to eviscerate the videogame industry. The reports of potential layoffs and closures—coupled with the short-sighted strategies of other publishers, including main rival Sony—are devastating. And the bad news just keeps coming. According to The Verge, Arkane’s Blade is now…
We’ve survived the June deluge and… Wait, somehow there are even more cozy games launching in July? I’ve counted up 30 new cozy games worth taking a peek at this month. That’s way too many for me or anyone else though, so as usual I’ve called up my cozy comrades to pick the ones they’re…
With AI data centers swallowing up every bit of memory storage around, it should come as no surprise that some creative engineers might be looking at alternatives. Most aren’t going to be considering solutions from the 1950/1960s, of course, but that’s precisely what one self-professed tinkerer did to create the “world’s worst USB device”. Tech…
The Entertainment Software Association, in an ongoing attempt to slow the roll of the games conservation movement Stop Killing Games, made a baffling statement at a recent California State Senate hearing over a proposed Protect Our Games Act that goes as follows: “[Private servers are] illegal. They are not in any way affiliated with Microsoft….
I’m told that the youths of today find using animated gif reactions ‘cringe’. As a millennial who misspent her youth on Tumblr, reacting to good game news with a gif of The Arm from Twin Peaks rubbing his hands together has become an unfortunate part of my idiolect. Before I break out the folder of…
It is time to do war crimes in a cool way. Battlefield 6, EA’s big loud military-themed shooter that earned a coveted 82% from PC Gamer FPS czar Morgan Park, is free-to-try for a week. The trial period runs from yesterday, June 30, up until July 6. The trial gives you access to five modes…
Once nothing more than a basic text editor, Windows Notepad has been expanded in recent years to become almost a fully-fledged word processor. For some people, the little tool has become synonymous with Microsoft’s penchant for bloat and unnecessary changes, so one former Redmond coder decided to do something about it. The person in question…
In an update early last month, Battlefield 6 accidentally made a change everyone loved. The in-game description of XP Boosters was changed to say that they would now count down only while you’re actively playing a match, rather than in real time, as they have since launch. Wasting your precious boosts because you’ve had to…
LLMs can be most simply understood as sycophantic, ‘yes, and’ machines. To the surprise of very few, that’s gotten AI companies in hot water when LLM-based chatbots and AI agents attempt to answer users’ more unsavoury requests. So, AI companies have implemented safety guardrails that make fulfilling certain requests off limits. Unfortunately, these have proven…