Tiny anime girl cyberprison billing itself as a ‘customizable 3D digital soulmate’ reaches its Kickstarter funding goal in minutes

Do you remember that scene in Blade Runner 2049 where a giant, holographic Ana De Armas tells Ryan Gosling he looks lonely? Well, I certainly do. The team behind this head-turning Kickstarter project may do as well, taking the dream of a giant, holographic lady and making her pocket-sized—not to mention anime-themed, of course. The…

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Overwatch 2 Season 17 is ‘all about giving you more customisation’ as 3 new heroes are added to Stadium with some pretty busted abilities

Overwatch 2 Season 17 is carrying on the trend of positive upheaval with new changes to how the base game is played, alongside more additions to Stadium, Overwatch’s newest and biggest spin-off. “It’s all about giving you more customisation, freedom, and tools to elevate your game across all of Overwatch 2,” senior game designer Dylan…

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Peak devs say the hit comedy climber was pitched in a Swedish hot tub and developed in a frantic 4-week Korean game jam: ‘We brought our computers to an Airbnb in Hongdae and locked tf in for a month’

Peak, the breakout hit climbing game whose wobbly scout characters you’ve probably seen tumbling down mountainsides on social media over the last few days, was a product of indie dev collaboration. It was created as a partnership between Another Crab’s Treasure developer Aggro Crab and Content Warning creators from Landfall, and according to the studio…

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The ‘Stop Killing Games’ initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: ‘Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it’s dead’

Ross Scott—also known as Accursed Farms on YouTube—has been fighting tooth and nail for almost a full year to help spearhead game preservation. Starting after it was announced that Ubisoft’s The Crew would be shutting down, permanently ending support for the game, Scott launched the “Stop Killing Games” initiative. As per a YouTube video (shared…

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New chip industry roadmap predicts true 10 nm silicon won’t arrive until 2039 and yet Moore’s Law is, actually, alive and kicking

Contrary to numerous pessimistic prognostications over recent years, including by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Moore’s Law is very much alive and kicking. That’s the take-home according to a new roadmap from chip production research and engineering outfit IMEC. In fact, if IMEC’s roadmap is accurate, we already have a good idea how chip manufacturing is…

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16 of the best landing spots in Fortnite

Your chosen Fortnite landing spot can make or break your game. If you drop in an isolated part of the map, your loot will lag behind other players in mid and late-round fights. But land in a busy zone and you’ll be forced to fight multiple enemies at once, meaning an early trip back to…

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Türkiye’s answer to Disco Elysium just broke cover, featuring more lawyers, fewer cops, an indeterminate amount of communism and twin fistfuls of guilt and regret

Here are the two things I enjoyed most about visiting Istanbul a few years ago. One: the comingling of millennia of history and a patchwork of cultures at the meeting point between Asia and Europe, a city that has more compacted history in a square metre than most places do in a square mile, an…

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