Resident Evil Requiem’s director admits they needed to raise the bar for their zombies to ‘keep having that thrilling experience’

The biggest draw in Resident Evil 9 was undoubtedly Leon Kennedy, but if I’m honest the zombies came in a close second. With yet another mutated strain of the T-virus, these infected are freaky in a whole new way, with many retaining their original memories and habits. “It’s creepier to see that they’re slightly more…

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What colour car would James Bond never drive? IO had to have multiple meetings just to figure it out for 007 First Light while huge plot decisions went down easy

I’m a little nervous about 007 First Light, which—from what I’ve seen—seems to play everything a bit too safe and linear to really leverage IO’s strengths as a studio. When I played First Light, I found myself asking if, perhaps, the Bond license-holders at Amazon were a bit precious about their character. Maybe IO simply…

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YouTuber makes the most of the unused space beneath their monitors with custom desktop aquarium with actual fish in it

Suspending a pricey pair of Acer Predator monitors above several litres of water may not sound like the brightest idea. However, this YouTuber’s under-monitor aquarium makes a strong case for handcrafting your own desk-side ecosystem. The channel Tanks for Nothin is all about weird and wonderful aquarium builds, though this is their first time setting…

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‘I did catch my son using an eyebrow pencil to draw a moustache on his face, and it verified him as 15 years old’: New report details the effects of the Online Safety Act thus far

The UK’s controversial Online Safety Act (OSA) mandated sites take measures to stop children accessing some parts of the internet through a series of checks, like seeking a digital ID, or simply analysing one’s face to see if they look over 18. Since it started to roll out over a year ago, the online landscape…

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Microsoft ended MS-DOS support 20 years ago, but the latest update for the best roguelike ever made still supports it anyway

September 14, 2000: That’s the day Microsoft released Windows Millennium Edition, the second-worst iteration of Windows in its long history. It also marked the final release of MS-DOS, which for so many years had undergirded its operating systems. In 2006—two decades ago—Microsoft ceased long-term support for Windows 98 and Me, meaning that MS-DOS’s life was…

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Randy Pitchford says Gearbox has a firm no-AI policy after posting an AI-generated image of an AI working at Gearbox

Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford is making friends and influencing people on social media, which is to say that he’s repeatedly insisting the studio does not use generative AI in a professional capacity (and occasionally calling people names) after a gen AI image he posted over the weekend drew a pretty negative reaction from followers. The…

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