Banquet For Fools is a CRPG like no other and the most interesting thing I've played this year, and between it and Esoteric Ebb, roleplaying fans are eating great right now

Banquet For Fools is a CRPG like no other and the most interesting thing I’ve played this year, and between it and Esoteric Ebb, roleplaying fans are eating great right now

I’m a known and documented Morrowind liker, to a degree that even I get a little bored of myself going on about it, but you know what? I think we reach for the Morrowind comparisons a little too quickly these days. A game has big fungi? That’s a Morrowind. Unique environments? Morrowind. Armour made of…

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Slay the Spire 2 dev hates microtransactions, even though players would definitely pay for them: ‘A lot of our players threaten to buy all and any cosmetics we may ever release’

Slay the Spire 2 is out now in early access, and once you drop some cash on it, it will probably be the last time you need to spend any money on the game. That’s because developer Mega Crit is no friend to microtransactions. “We’re microtransaction haters,” Casey Yano, co-founder of Mega Crit, told Destructoid…

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A petri dish of human neurons has learned to play Doom: ‘The cells play a lot like a beginner who’s never seen a computer, and in fairness, they haven’t’

Doom is a cultural cornerstone, where every new piece of tech (gaming or otherwise) and every game is forced to somehow—no matter how impossible—run Doom. It’s a test, and we’ve seen the 1993 classic on everything from a motherboard’s BIOS, old potatoes, a Lego brick, to a home pregnancy test, and even Doom running inside…

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OpenAI hardware leader resigns over concerns about ‘surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization’

In the wake of OpenAI’s debacle with the US Department of War, a lead of its robotics division has left the company, with a warning left on her X account for the AI company. In it, Caitlin Kalinowski says, “This wasn’t an easy call. AI has an important role in national security. But surveillance of…

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A simple check with a magnet was the final clue that made Thermal Grizzly realise it had been hit by a 40,000 euro metal scam

Last month, we reported on how the rapidly increasing cost of copper was potentially going to impact the PC industry, as explained by Thermal Grizzly’s Roman ‘Der8auer’ Hartung. Now he’s back again on the subject of copper, but this time highlighting a more alarming and depressing side of the current market: industrial-scale material fraud. Hartung…

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