The T’au are coming to Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector

Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector, the turn-based strategy game whose singleplayer campaign casts you as 40K’s ultimate goth space marines, is adding another DLC faction. Joining the previously added Sisters of Battle, Necrons, Orks, and Daemons of Khorne will be the technogoth universe’s resident mech-piloting alien weebs, the T’au. Battlesector’s T’au army includes a variety of battlesuits…

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Gloomwood developers exploring new advances in rat behavioral AI

Stealth-horror immersive sim Gloomwood has development continuing apace, with the latest development preview bringing attention to extremely important—nay, vital—advances in rat-based gaming technology. A couple videos posted by developer Dillon Rogers over the past few weeks shows off some cheese-seeking AI behavior for Gloomwood’s rat NPCs, behavior that made its way into the January 30th…

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Satisfactory will have its 1.0 release this year

Coffee Stain Studios has announced that their factory-building sim game, Satisfactory, will leave early access this year for a full 1.0 release. Satisfactory has been in development since 2019, and has to date released eight major updates to buyers during that time. The 1.0 release will include the full version of the game’s narrative story…

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MIT researcher proves you could output Doom on a bacteria-powered 1-bit display, and it’d only take 600 years to beat

First reported by Engadget, MIT bioengineering researcher Lauren Ramlan broke new ground in the ongoing quest to run Doom on everything. In a paper and accompanying video for a semester project, Ramlan proposes running Doom through a 1-bit display of bioluminescent E. coli capable of displaying the game at just shy of three frames per…

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Palworld server costs near $500K per month as network engineer is ordered to ‘never let the service go down no matter what’

Monster-collecting survival game Palworld has amassed an astonishing 19 million players, and that extraordinary success isn’t coming cheap for its indie developer: Palworld’s projected February server costs are over 70 million yen, according to a post from Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe. That comes to over $475,000 USD. “Wait, maybe we’ll go bankrupt from server fees?”…

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