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Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist '80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. Developer: e-frontier Released: 2000 PCs: Windows 95-NT, Mac (Image credit: e-frontier) Sometimes I buy obscure old games for what I like to imagine are grand, noble reasons. A niche developer makes an unusual puzzley twist on the RPG, and I must learn...
Word to the wise, be careful about the images you post on social media. OpenAI's latest AI models, released last week, have sparked a new viral craze for bot-powered geoguessing. In other words, using AI to deduce where a photo was taken. Not to put too fine a point on it, but that could be a doxxing and privacy nightmare.OpenAI's new o3 and o4-mini models are both capable of image...
A new variant of Intel's latest Battlemage gaming graphics has been spotted in a shipping manifest and the hope is that it could be the killer $400 gaming GPU we've been waiting for. Think RTX 5070 performance for RTX 5060 Ti 8GB money. Well, that's the dream, anyway.X user Haze2K1 (via Videocardz) spotted a listing for an Intel BMG-31 GPU in a manifest on shipping data website NBD. Intel's latest...
Hold onto your holographic caps because researchers in Japan have managed to turn depleted uranium into futuristic rechargeable batteries. According to IEEE.org, Scientists at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency have been working to turn the depleted uranium waste products of nuclear power generation into batteries designed to be recharged by renewables.Sadly, this doesn't mean we'll be emptying leftover cans of drink and banana peels into our fuel canisters anytime soon....
China managed to make one of the coolest sounding premises staggeringly nerdy as the country pits humanoid robots against humans in a half marathon run. According to The Guardian, this meat vs. machine mini marathon was held at Yizhuang in Beijing on Saturday, where 21 robots joined the thousands of fleshy fitness fanatics in competition.The real downside to this news is the robots didn't win, or even come close. In...
Asus has us drooling after it released all the juicy specs for the upcoming Asus RTX 50-series A14 TUF gaming laptop. Right now Asus are the top dogs of laptops, with several of the company's machine making our best of list, including the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 and G16 editions. While they didn't quite make the list last year, Asus' TUF series are also nothing to balk at. For 2024's...
All the help you need to make Monday's Wordle a breeze is ready and waiting just below. Whether you want to warm up with our general tips, sort out a jumble of yellow letters with our clue for the April 21 (1402) game, or jump straight to today's answer, we've got it all.Two green letters and one handy yellow in my first row? On a Monday? Brilliant. I could have...
Everyone hitting refresh on Bethesda's YouTube channel waiting for an Oblivion Remastered trailer got a surprise when a new trailer for Doom: The Dark Ages arrived auspiciously over the Easter weekend.It opens with a strong dose of story. A guy who looks like he stepped right out of Hellraiser is here to attack a divided humanity with a skyship that looks like it was designed by Warhammer 40,000's Imperium of...
Palia's big Elderwood expansion is coming in May with a new zone that reminds me of WoW's Teldrassil
Cozy MMO Palia is getting its biggest expansion yet, featuring the new Elderwood adventure zone, which might look familiar to World of Warcraft fans.Palia has received a steady stream of updates since it launched in open beta in 2023, but there's one major update fans have been waiting months for and it's finally here: the Elderwood expansion.This huge new zone will also arrive alongside Palia's long-awaited console launch on Xbox...
Ubisoft has announced that its internal tool to help developers make colorblind-accessible videogames is available for public use "after several years of internal use and development."Chroma lets developers replicate the experience of colorblind players in real time, as they actually play the game, by applying a filter over the screen that doesn't degrade game performance.Colorblindness may well be the most common disability affecting videogame players, with nonprofit Colour Blind Awareness...