Colony sim Ascent of Ashes, by a former RimWorld mod team, will hit in November

‘It’s not like natural intelligence is always all that great either’: Linus Torvalds addresses anti-AI sentiment in Linux development

Linux likers and AI dislikers, it’s time to raid the cutlery drawer and fork your favourite distro. Why? Because Linus Torvalds has declared that Linux is not an “anti-AI” project. Torvalds recently responded to a discussion about Sashiko, an agentic Linux kernel code review system, writing, “I realize that some people really dislike AI, but…

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Why Diablo 4’s loot filter isn’t ready yet: ‘Every perceivably simple decision has some kind of crazy cause and effect’

Diablo 4 has a big, small problem: inventory space. There’s just not enough of it. Among all the other cool things coming next year in Vessel of Hatred, Diablo 4’s first expansion, are a number of fixes designed to help players with the endless bag-space management task that is, perhaps, inevitable in Blizzard’s loot-explosion action…

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‘Surprised there was anyone left to post this’: Fans react as The Elder Scrolls Online debuts seasonal content days after hundreds laid off from studio

For the first time ever, seasonal content is here for The Elder Scrolls Online. Return of the Thieves Guild, its inaugural season, has launched for the long-running MMO, something you’d expect fans would be all abuzz for—if not for the fact that ZeniMax Online Studios has been gutted as part of the mass layoffs at…

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