The team behind bullet hell FPS Luna Abyss just got laid off, less than a month after the game's release

Feature: The Quest To Save Cookie’s Bustle From Obscurity

“This game is a work of art and it should be preserved”. Perhaps the greatest contribution to society that American singer and actor Barbra Streisand made is the so-called “Streisand effect”. That is the backfiring attempt to hide something from the internet, resulting in said thing being more well-known than before the attempts started. Singing…

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The Warhammer Conference continues making deep dives into grim peril: ‘it makes the papers themselves more approachable for a non-academic audience’

The second annual Warhammer Conference took place in September—two whole days of academic talks about Warhammer 40,000 as a model of social power relations in Western societies since the 19th century and the terror of androgyny with particular reference to xenos species at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. I’m still working my way through…

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Intel Soon Launching Xeon Chips for Laptops

Intel announced on Monday that the company is bringing its server-focused Xeon processors to notebooks. These mobile chips will be based on Intel’s sixth-generation “Skylake” architecture, which is the same architecture found in Intel’s desktop processors launched last week. The first in the new Xeon family for mobile will be the Xeon Processor E3-1500M Product…

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