Stalker 2’s first major story expansion is coming this summer with two new regions and ‘dozens of hours of gameplay’

More than a year after the launch of Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, the first official story expansion has been revealed as Cost of Hope, “a new chapter of a well-known conflict” between Duty and Freedom, two of the Exclusion Zone’s most powerful factions. Duty and Freedom hold directly opposing views—Duty believes the Zone must…

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Serious Sam is being turned into a run-based roguelite multiplayer shooter later this year, and seriously—this one might not suck

Devolver Digital lifted the lid on a new Serious Sam game during today’s Xbox showcase, and it’s a little bit different from the ones that have come before. Serious Sam: Shatterverse is a run-based multiplayer FPS for up to five players, each of them a Sam from a different dimension, who travel through a multiverse…

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This intrepid bug bounty hunter is splicing together Tesla parts from crashed cars, and has somehow managed to build a semi-working computer system on their desk

When I retire (who am I kidding), I’d like to have a proper workshop. I’ve always been a tinkerer, someone who likes to take apart bits of engineering to see exactly how they work. Which is why I feel a certain kinship with David Schütz, who’s been cracking open Tesla Model 3 computers on their…

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says of AI that ‘open is not a thing, it’s proprietary and open’, sparking a conversation about bot orchestras

The world of AI boffins really is baffling, sometimes. I’m finally used to the idea that I can chat to a non-sentient, very knowledgeable and occasionally hallucinatory machine, and already we’re talking about AI models interacting with AI models. It’s only in such a world that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang could think to utter the…

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Google says it’s preparing for the quantum apocalypse, when traditional encryption methods are broken by quantum computers, by 2029—which is much sooner than originally expected

If you’ve never heard of Q-Day, the moment when quantum computers become capable of breaking traditional encryption methods and exposing vast amounts of data, often referred to as the ‘quantum apocalypse‘, then Google’s latest announcement might come as something of a shock. The company is giving itself a 2029 timeline to “secure the quantum era”…

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Videogames are more of a rich guy’s hobby than ever, says analyst, and that’s ‘leaving a whole portion of the market to Fortnite, Minecraft, Roblox’

The term “K-shaped economy” is one that economists and finance writers came up with to avoid having to say “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.”* It goes like this: as the economy recovers from shocks like the Covid-19 pandemic, the recovery is uneven across sectors and income levels. The already-affluent at the…

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