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Here’s one for you: Let’s say you’re a scientist tasked with designing an intuitive physical interface for a human operator to remotely control a robot destined to rove Mars. What do you do? Well, it turns out there’s no need to reinvent the wheel. Airbus recently showed off its ExoMars rover to documentarian Tom Scott,…
How many of you have started a Minecraft world, made your first house, explored the Nether, and found an End Portal only to stop just short of defeating the Ender Dragon? I’ve done it more times than I’d care to admit, constantly juggling realms and getting bored of projects. Well, it turns out that we…
I’ve played enough horror games at this point to wonder whether I’d be any good at actually surviving one. While some games are simply out of the question after finishing Silent Hill: Townfall recently I came to the conclusion that yes, given the right circumstances I’d probably make it to the end. But what about…
Real buildings that look like something I’d build on my first night in a survival game, part 1. Defunct restroom in my local park. I count 8 wall pieces, 4 standard roof pieces, 2 triangle roof pieces, 1 door. I could definitely fit a bed in there. (Image credit: Christopher Livingston)
If this report is even close to being true, Intel could be on the cusp of a whole new and incredibly lucrative era for the company. It’s claimed that pretty much all of the biggest players in US chip tech including Amazon, Apple, AMD, Google, Tesla, Microsoft, Nvidia and Qualcomm are evaluating Intel’s upcoming 14A…
While it seems unlikely that major web platforms can be discouraged from marching us further into a surveillance dystopia with measures like Discord’s age-verification rollout, I wish they’d at least do us the courtesy of dropping the ‘I’m just a little guuuy’ schtick: when you launch an extremely popular age assurance update that everyone on…
Motion blur, chromatic aberration, bloom… we’ve discussed many times whether these effects deserve a spot in a game’s settings menu or are the hellspawn of satan’s computer graphics division. Now it’s time for you to chime in. One final reckoning; until I have the same idea again in five years’ time. I am nothing if…
There are 39* Stardew Valley-shaped farm sims that are still planning to launch in 2026 and I have 234 hours** of gaming time remaining. Someone who is good at time management please help me budget this. My crops are dying. Songs of Glimmerwick 40 hours Dragon Shelter 20 hours Grave Seasons 20 hours Nivalis Nights…
This week there’s another challenge to complete in Forza Horizon 6. This time we’ve got the Shimanoyama Treasure Hunt to track down, and doing it will grant you some season progress. The British Automotive Festival Series is currently underway and there are a couple of season reward cars to grab, namely the Vauxhall Astra VXR…
My first MMO character was… Maldirr, Orc Warrior Born: ~2005 Game: World of Warcraft Technically, my very first MMO characters were in a RuneScape account (that was later hacked during years of inactivity) and a Trandoshan force-sensitive in Star Wars Galaxies, that I only played long enough to realize the New Game Enhancements were bad….