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Happy birthday, Stardew Valley. Today Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone’s beloved farming sim celebrated its 10th anniversary with a short half-hour retrospective and the long-awaited reveal of its upcoming marriage candidates. That’s right, you’re getting two new singles to woo when Stardew Valley 1.7 adds romances for Clint and Sandy. Stardew Valley Guides (Image credit: ConcernedApe) Stardew…

I haven’t touched Grim Dawn in ages, but it will always have a special place in my heart. I first wrote about it 16 years ago (for a completely different site), when Crate Entertainment was fiddling around with something called “crowd contributed” game development: Give people an opportunity to pay now so they can play…

Based on Lee Youngdo’s fantasy series The Bird That Drinks Tears—novels being published in English for the first time this June—Project Windless and its big, beautiful bird berserker will offer an international audience an opportunity to explore a unique and celebrated fiction firsthand. But for creative director and Krafton Montreal studio head Patrik Méthé, Project…

Of all the places I thought AI would knock on the door of, like a grim reaper, I never expected it to be Burger King. Tech, videogames, movies, sure—they’re all about cutting-edge technology, even if it’s misguided and self-destructive—but a fast food chain? As reported by The Verge, Burger King is launching its own AI…

Given the way the AI industry is going these days, the following news probably isn’t a huge surprise. But it’s unnerving all the same. Announced in a new blog post, Anthropic, arguably the sole remaining example among the major AI players that really bigs up its safety responsibilities, has ditched its core commitment to “pause”…

There’s a lot riding on Marathon, potentially even the fate of legendary developer Bungie given the current state of Destiny, which has been carrying the studio’s baton for years. Now it’s time to pass the burden onto Marathon, I guess, while the studio figures out what it’s doing with Destiny going forward. After divisive playtests…

If I can be vulnerable for a moment, I have something I need to get off my chest: I have no idea what Marathon is actually about, but that’s by choice. I am unequivocally in love with its marketing and the fact it gives very little away about what’s actually going on in the world…

Google Sheets is perhaps my most disliked member of the Google Workplace suite. It’s not that it’s bad at what it does, more that it’s a deathly-dull spreadsheet editor that I loathe having to stare at for more than five minutes. But lo and indeed behold, because Google says it’s caught Sheets being used in…

As my esteemed colleague Joshua Wolens once wrote, I “never thought I’d die fighting side-by-side with the Pope.” Pope Leo XIV has made AI a key theme of his papacy, and his thoughts on the technology at times could not be clearer: he says it’s “turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts”. In a…

The budget wireless gaming headset market is in such a tough spot right now. That’s partly because the mid-range is absolutely knocking it out of the park, and partly because with the word ‘budget’ often comes the denigrative terms ‘cheap’, ‘flimsy’, or ‘yeah, this sounds kinda bad’. Okay, that last one isn’t very snappy, but…