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Bruce Campbell, the actor behind Ash from Evil Dead and—most prominently in my heart—the tutorial narrator in the Spider-Man 2 videogame, revealed yesterday that he has been diagnosed with cancer. In a post on X, Campbell wrote that he had “a type of cancer that’s ‘treatable’ not ‘curable’. I apologize if that’s a shock—it was…
Marathon‘s weekend Server Slam has only just finished, but with the game launching in a mere three days on March 5, Bungie’s ready to talk post-launch plans, spilling the beans on Season 1 and how wipes will work. Marathon Season 1, running from March to June, is called Death is the First Step, which is…
The US Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida has announced the sentencing of a 52-year-old woman after she was found guilty of “conspiring to traffic in illicit Microsoft Certificate of Authenticity (COA) labels.” Heidi Richards, a resident of Brandon, Florida, was sentenced to 22 months in US federal prison for her part in…
Since the dawn of time, people have been picking sides and fighting each other, Rome vs Carthage, Edward vs Jacob, the list goes on. But one battle that has engulfed the Resident Evil fandom ever since I can remember is the fight between who has Leon’s heart, Ada Wong or Claire Redfield. I wrote about…
I admit it, when I think of Fallout 3, the immersive sims of yore are not the comparisons I leap to instinctively. But having checked out a recent RPS chat with FO3 lead designer Emil Pagliarulo, you know what? I see it. I see the vision. “We let you play as any type of character…
Another month, another proposed change to US AI chip export policy. This time, the US government seems to be in talks to control Nvidia’s H200 chip. According to Bloomberg, and citing people familiar with the matter, the Trump administration is reportedly considering limiting Nvidia chip exports to 75,000 per Chinese firm. Notably, AMD’s MI325 AI…
Tripwire Interactive, developer of the Killing Floor and Rising Storm games, has laid off 23 employees, cuts it says were made necessary by the “business realities” of an evolving videogame industry. “We regrettably confirm that our studio has recently undergone a workforce reduction which has affected 23 people from across different areas,” the studio wrote…
With all indications being that the AI-fuelled memory crisis will get worse before it gets better and will also be upon us until at least 2028, fair to say there’s a legitimate concern whether affordable PCs will be viable at all. We may not even get to ask the question about how much memory or…
After a very public falling out between Anthropic and the US Department of War late last week—in which the former refused to remove safeguards preventing its AI tools from being used for autonomous weaponry and mass surveillance purposes—OpenAI stepped into the vacuum with a deal to use its own AI tools in the US military’s…
On my first day investigating the bombing of a goblin tea shop in Esoteric Ebb, Christoffer Bodegård’s self-styled “Disco-like” CRPG, I didn’t let a second go to waste. Was it magic? An explosive? Did it have anything to do with the upcoming inaugural democratic election? Or was it a random act of violence? So many…