Baldur's Gate 3 player beats the game in Honour Mode by exclusively casting one of the worst spells in D&D 2,469 times

Reports claim an AWS outage last year was caused by an AI coding tool deciding to ‘delete and recreate the environment’ from scratch, while Amazon says ‘misconfigured access controls’ were to blame

A report from The Financial Times claims that, according to four of its sources, two recent AWS outages were caused by engineers allowing its Kiro AI coding tool to make changes without oversight. According to a senior AWS employee, at least two production outages in the past few months were caused by the AI agent…

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Today’s Wordle answer for Wednesday, December 25

Learn how to make the most of every line in today’s Wordle with our general tips. Need more? Then you’ve got more. Our clue for the December 25 (1285) game’s ready to give you a nudge towards your latest win, and today’s answer’s on standby if those green letters just aren’t showing up today. Today’s…

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Morbid Metal is a deeply satisfying hack ‘n’ slash with some subpar roguelike elements, but hey, that’s what early access is for

Morbid Metal released into early access last week, and I finally got the chance to sit down and play it—and while developer Screen Juice’s new roguelike needs some proper work on its secondary elements, the good news is that the bones are good. Really good, in fact. Given their repetitive nature, the most important thing…

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Fallout: New Vegas dev says don’t expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn’t have the source code or ‘the engineering knowhow’

Fallout: New Vegas writer and former Obsidian creative officer, Chris Avellone, says don’t get your hopes up for an Oblivion-style remaster of the game, and his reasoning is a bit of a doozy. “I don’t think Bethesda has the engineering knowhow to make a remaster of New Vegas at all,” says Avellone in an interview…

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Only 3% of Stop Killing Games’ EU initiative signees have failed verification so far—which is a great sign it’ll progress to the European Commission

Stop Killing Games‘ EU initiative had a second wind earlier this year, going from a bit of doom and gloom to 400,000 extra signatures past the requirement to get it in front of the European Commission, via a European Citizens’ Initiative. For context, Stop Killing Games is a movement designed to require game companies to…

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