Launch day performance issues and forced logins take another victim: Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls sees mixed Steam rating, especially among Linux users

Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls has been highly anticipated for some time and that’s partly because it’s from Arc System Works, the company behind the likes of Guilty Gear, Blazblue, and Persona 4 Arena. Yet Steam users are disappointed in its opening few days. That’s because despite many praising the game itself, it reportedly has a…

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Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 (2026) review

The Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 2026 is a fantastic 16-inch gaming laptop. There you go, review over, we can all go home. But wait, because it’s got a serious flaw that should make you hold your fire before pressing the order button. And that flaw, as those familiar with the ongoing memory crisis may have…

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ChatTJB is a fake chatbot where a guy called Tucker Bryant answers queries himself: ‘I tend to overcommit to bits’

ChatTJB, according to its Crunchbase profile, is a service that “provides a personal conversational response where an individual directly receives, processes, and writes answers to user inquiries”. That’s technically true, but not in the way you think… because it’s just sorta some guy. Futurism got to sit down with Tucker Bryant, the man behind ChatTJB,…

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WoW’s changing how world bosses work because they’ve ‘really been a little bit lackluster’ in recent years, says dev

World bosses have been a part of the World of Warcraft player’s diet since classic—in case you haven’t played the game, what separates a world boss from any other raid encounter is the fact that it’s (self-explanatorily) out in the world, something you need to party up to defeat without going into a cave somewhere….

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‘They call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we’re not’: Family declines $26 million offer to convert their farmland into an AI data center

If one thing is true about AI, it’s that there’s a lot of money in it. Nvidia became the first $5 trillion company because of its role in the explosion of AI data centers, and OpenAI has been rounding up tens of billions in investments. So you’d think AI companies could buy pretty much whatever…

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If your AMD chipset drivers are mysteriously failing to install like mine, you’ll need to manually update instead

Keeping on top of chipset driver updates is a boring, but necessary part of maintaining a modern PC. Unfortunately, both myself and fellow hardware nerd Jacob Fox have run into an issue with the AMD Install Manager, which attempts to install the latest chipset driver and fails miserably on both our machines. Very unhelpfully, the…

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