There are a surprising number of programs designed to randomly kill processes on your computer until it crashes—or you wimp out

For reasons unbeknownst to mankind, there are a surprising number of applications designed to arbitrarily select and destroy processes on a PC until it crashes. This morning, I was made aware of an application made by user IceSolst on X with AI coding platform Cursor AI that randomly selects a process on your computer via…

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Microsoft rolls out tables in Notepad for all Windows 11 users, though I’d feel happier about this if I knew this was the final addition to my favorite little app

Once the forgotten child of Windows’ armoury of native applications, Notepad has enjoyed a revival in the past few years. Since 2022, it’s gained spell checking, a dark mode, tabbed windows, state preservation, and even basic formatting. With the latest update, tables have joined the feature set, which feels useful, along with AI text streaming,…

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Yakuza Kiwami 3’s new expansion basically turns it into a breakneck roguelite dungeon crawl, complete with random drops and goofy sidekicks

Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio is, by this point, the undisputed master of recycling. By reusing characters and environments and minigames across the Like a Dragon series (and then remaking the games to do it all over again), it’s able to pack each new game with a luxurious volume of stuff while simultaneously piling cutscenes to…

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Yakuza Kiwami 3 includes the first official emulation of 2 bizarro Sega arcade games, including one like Crazy Taxi but you’re racing an ambulance to the hospital before a patient bleeds to death

In the glory days of the video arcade, no idea was too weird for a multi-thousand-dollar machine built around a CRT. Take, for example, two of Sega’s more obscure late ’90s arcade cabinets: Magical Truck Adventure (which does not feature a truck) and Emergency Call Ambulance (which does feature an ambulance). Released in 1998 and…

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Resident Evil Requiem was originally a tense, stealth-oriented horror starring only Leon, before the team went back to the drawing board: ‘People wouldn’t want to see a timid Leon’

Capcom published a lengthy Resident Evil Requiem showcase today, showing off some typically savage new footage and gameplay features. Series mainstay Leon S. Kennedy will co-star with newcomer Grace, and their sequences will be roughly even in length, with game director Koshi Nakanishi describing Requiem as essentially two games in one. Grace’s parts will resemble…

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The studio behind the best metroidvania of 2021 has a new game coming out next month—and I’m dropping everything to play it

It looks like a fairly orthodox 8-bit platformer on the surface, but Astalon: Tears of the Earth is among my favourite modern metroidvanias. Its class-based combat and exploration is thoroughly engrossing, the depth of its secrets astonishing, and most importantly, it’s a sumptuous feast for pixel art enthusiasts. If you like metroidvanias I’m begging you…

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