I don’t know why everyone’s suddenly making games inspired by Spore, but this roguelike twin-stick shooter might be the best attempt yet at realising the lost potential of the cell stage

There must be some stray DNA in the water lately. In November, disappointing 2008 everything sim Spore inexplicably popped back up in the news. Then in December, I checked out Everything is Crab, a clever roguelike that turned out to realise some of that game’s lost potential. Now I’m playing Pathogenic, another game that pulls…

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Sony Inzone H9 II review

You can get a lot of gaming headset for under $300. Or, if you’re willing to max out that figure, you can scoop up our top audiophile headphones pick, the Audeze Maxwell, complete with its pricey-yet-stunning planar magnetic drivers. Or, for $50 more, you can buy the Sony Inzone H9 II. Having seen the $350…

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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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