How to unlock the Ultimate Badge in Peak

A lot of the badges you’ll collect in Peak revolve around things you can do while you make your way through each biome, or they challenge you with carting a specific item to different areas of the climb. There is the odd exception to this rule though, and the Ultimate Badge falls into that category….

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Mafia: The Old Country review

The Mafia series has never had a clue what to do with its open world. In Mafia 1, the titular city of Lost Heaven was set dressing—something that felt like it existed because, ‘Hey, GTA 3 has just come out and is tremendously popular, and we’re making a game sort of like that.’ In Mafia…

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Former Google exec says AI’s going to lead to a ‘short-term dystopia’ because the idea it will create new jobs for the ones it’s replacing is ‘100% crap’

Something funny happened as I was watching Google X’s former chief business officer Mo Gawdat, on the Google-owned platform YouTube, outline his exact take on the AI dystopia he thinks is coming. The host began to ask Gawdat about the idea AI will create new jobs, then the video halted while Google ads served me…

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How to unlock the Astronomy Badge in Peak

It’s important to think carefully about which items you’re carting around with you on your expedition in Peak, but sometimes an achievement calls for you to carry something you don’t really want to waste space on for a specific task. We’ve all tried to take Bing Bong from the plane crash to the peak, but…

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I had no idea it was possible to create a working floppy disk from scratch, and neither did this YouTuber until they broke out their engineering chops

Reasons I am not an engineer: One, I have a limited supply of patience. Two, a limited supply of resources, and three, a limited amount of brain power. YouTuber polymatt, however, appears to have no such issues, as they’ve built a 3½-inch floppy disk from scratch using nothing but consumer-available materials, some creative thinking, and…

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League of Legends is getting its first major control scheme change in 16 years: the option to use WASD to ‘get new players to the fun parts of League faster and with less friction’

After almost 16 years of pointing and clicking, League of Legends is trying something a little different by adding the option to move around with WASD instead. In a video detailing the upcoming control scheme—complete with an abhorrent pronunciation of WASD (who the hell says waz-dee? You heathens)—executive producer Paul Bellezza said that traditional League…

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OpenAI’s performance charts in the GPT-5 launch video are such a mess you have to think GPT-5 itself probably made them, and the company’s attempted fixes raise even more questions

What to make of OpenAI’s latest GPT-5 chatbot? Let’s just say the reception from users has been sufficiently mixed to have OpenAI head honcho Sam Altman posting apologetically on X. And more than once. But one thing we can say for sure, the charts in the launch video were a bizarre mess that OpenAI has…

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Former BioWare exec Mark Darrah says the team working on the new Mass Effect game should ‘scapegoat Veilguard as much as they need to to get what they need’

The future of BioWare has never looked murkier. Dragon Age: The Veilguard proved the latest highly divisive release from a studio that hasn’t had a launch unmarred by controversy since Mass Effect 2 in 2010. Over which time a huge number of key developers have left or been unceremoniously laid-off. Now BioWare, formerly always a…

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