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I like to imagine that, in thousands of years time, an alien species will land on the desert wasteland that was once Earth and begin combing through our digital records. What they’ll likely discover fairly quickly is the rise of emojis in our daily communications during the late 2000s, a process Google is looking to…
Palworld continues to prove that it’s more than a flash-in-the-pan novelty. The survival crafting romp with legally distinct pokémon just had its second weekend since it hit 1.0, following a couple of years in early access, and it’s only getting more popular. The second weekend saw concurrents approaching a million on Steam (961,867, to be…
Wallhack (previously SkyPad, if you weren’t aware) has teased a gaming mouse that will be announced on July 24. This will be the company’s first gaming mouse, having previously stuck to high-performance mouse pads, sleeves, and skates. There must just be something irresistible about hot swappable batteries. This mouse looks to have them, as from…
Steve Jobs had his turtlenecks, Jensen Huang has his iconic leather jackets. Well, one less of them now, anyway. Famous auctioneer Sotheby’s put one of Huang’s jackets up for auction over the weekend, with estimates placing the value between $40,000 to $60,000. However, the hammer price (after 65 bids) ended up being an astonishing $960,000—with…
You might be surprised to hear that the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy 14—I’ll spare you the free trial copypasta—has a mobile version. Well, it does… though er, not for much longer. A little over a year after launching in China, Final Fantasy 14 mobile is shutting down and taking its unreleased global version down…
Translating brain activity into game inputs is the stuff of absurdly long-running sci-fi anime. It’s also a tech that, though very much in its infancy, now exists in the real world too. For instance, attendees at this year’s World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai could have a go at playing Black Myth: Wukong with just…
The Odyssey looks set to become this summer’s big blockbuster hit, and its director, Christopher Nolan, is busy working the interview circuit. After his comments last week around AI slop and the younger generation’s rejection of the tech, the Oscar-winning filmmaker went one step further in a chat with YouTube channel HugoDécrypte – Grands formats….
I run a single SSD gaming PC, which I’m aware is giving me a wonderful case of ‘single-point-of-failure-itus.’ Which is why my ears (eyes?) perked up when I read about GigaWiper, a wonderfully-named malware that can potentially do terrible things to your storage drives. Microsoft has published an analysis into GigaWiper’s capabilities, and it looks…
Game of Thrones: War for Westeros—the upcoming RTS from PlaySide emerging from the blasted wreckage of HBO’s once-water-cooler-dominating fantasy TV series—would like you to know it still exists and is still coming out. Just, you know, a little later than it originally had planned. War for Westeros originally broke cover at last year’s Summer Game…
Sweet Hamster Days was initially rejected by Steam, perhaps because Valve is more restrictive of games that feature sexually explicit images of real people, or possibly for some other reason we’ll never know. As a designer called Oda told Automaton, “We still don’t know exactly how the platform saw things, but after revising details such…