The team behind one of 2024’s hidden gems is following it up with a stop-motion ‘relaxed digging and discovery’ game about a happy robot’s underground adventures beneath a lake of slime

One of last year’s biggest pleasant surprises was Judero, a surreal little adventure by a two-man team whose art consisted entirely of action figures and other handmade, physical objects digitized as sprites and textures or animated in stop-motion cutscenes. Developer Talha & Jack Co. is already working on what’s next: Mashina. “A little robot digs…

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Adata SE880 1 TB external SSD review

It’s difficult to get excited about slightly older external SSDs, but sometimes they can surprise you—the Crucial X9, for instance, certainly surprised me with its consistent performance and low price tag. Unfortunately, the SE880 is not such a pleasant surprise. It’s fine for what it is, but “fine” is all, and there are better options…

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Coder creates an ‘infinite maze’ to snare AI bots in an act of ‘sheer unadulterated rage at how things are going’ on the content-scraped web

I’m getting a little tired of our deep-learning future, folks. While generative AI and deep learning technology isn’t inherently bad—it’s being used for folding proteins and advancing medical science, for example—the routine doling-out of slop has everyone paranoid, content trawlers are scraping through the web sucking up everything in sight, and an endless parade of…

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Former BioWare vet says the studio is focused on a single game ‘for the first time maybe ever’ with Mass Effect 5—and whether that’s good or bad is anyone’s guess

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is one heck of a mixed bag—receiving a spread of good and bad praise from critics, some resentment from its fans, and apparently falling far from the mark financially. It’s also done now, with no plans for major DLC in the pipeline—sort of a first for the series, overall. That, according…

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