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As reported by Boing Boing, a 2023 study out of UC Irvine, “Dazed and Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHAv2” concluded that not only are CAPTCHAs ineffective at actually preventing bot traffic, they introduce privacy concerns through tracking cookies, have wasted billions of hours of our collective time, and generated nearly a trillion…

Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios has got a lot of attention over the past year for their game master-driven plot. To commemorate the first anniversary of Helldivers 2‘s release, extremely private game master J.O.E.L. is doing his first real public appearance in a video talking about the game master’s favorite moment of the first…

They say detective work is primarily about sitting in front of a computer, and if so, have I got the desktop for you. Armed with Nut OS 1.1, the Cashew PC offers speedy net surfing and thorough database searching – all without the bloat of a modern Windows machine, or the sluggishness of a genuine…

I consider it high praise to say Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has good fast travel, because I don’t know anyone who hates fast travel as much as me. For years I’ve railed against the ways sandbox games lean on fast travel to paper over boring maps or uninspiring traversal tools and celebrated games that bake…

The PlayStation network has been completely borked for 16 hours and counting at the time of writing, first going offline at 1 AM CET / 7 PM ET / 4 PM PT on February 8. Sony has yet to provide an explanation for the outage, which affects PSN logins and services across all platforms, including…

It’s a pretty great time to have a ravenous appetite for a good spy thriller. Sift through the mountain of streaming guff and you’ll find more than your fill. Want something sexy and slick? Mr & Mrs Smith will sort you out. Ever thought Gary Oldman would be great as a washed-up spy in desperate…

I’ll be honest, I almost passed on writing about Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2‘s datavault update. I like libraries as much as the next introvert, but they don’t exactly make for gripping headlines (unless it’s a library of digitised videogame magazines, that stuff rules). But then I discovered the datavault update doesn’t just expand your…