Pope Leo XIV is a pontiff of firsts: He's the first American Pope, his love for Wordle makes him the first gamer Pope, he's the first Pope to declare war on AI, and now he's the first Pope in human history to both own and have signed a Pokémon card.Yeah, I wasn't expecting that one either. The holy surprising news came courtesy of a reddit post from user ReptileCake, who...
As a longtime Dwarf Fortress devotee, the last few years of DF development have felt like a wonder. For most of the procedural fantasy sim's history, there could be years between updates as development progress was subject to the circumstances affecting the Adams brothers' lives and attention.Since joining with Kitfox Games for the Steam release and hiring on additional developers, however, Bay 12 Games is now expanding its simulation's scope...
The Great Hobbit Run is a Lord of the Rings Online tradition based on a simple premise: What if, instead of adventures and experience and becoming the savior of Middle-earth, a bunch of newbies just showed up at Chez Bilbo and then booked it straight to Mount Doom? It sounds like a terrible idea, at least in the very serious in-fiction context of saving the world from enslavement to evil....
Almost three years ago now, I wrote about my love for pink peripherals. I still stand by that: The Razer Quartz Huntsman V2 TKL, Blackshark V2 X headset are still my go-to accessories on my desk, while the Barracuda wireless headset comes with me every time I leave the house. They feel great to use and, more importantly, make me feel downright adorable.I continue to yearn for more colourful PC...
I'm downright curious about Borderlands 4—having played most entrants in the series, it's been interesting to see it mostly capture a good narrative essence with Borderlands 2, then spend the rest of its library uh… not doing that. Which is why this sequel's been intriguing to me, given promises the game'll be cutting back on "toilet humor" and irreverent meme culture.A recent story explainer in Beyond the Borderlands #2 looks...
When I booted up the Marvel Rivals preview build for Season 3 for the first time, I was, of course, dying to try out Phoenix right away. New heroes are always the stars of the show, and that's no different here. However, after hours of hands-on with the anticipated update, including the Season 3 patch notes that bring some much-needed balancing changes, I've actually been appreciating the mundane tweaks much...
Walls. Boring, aren’t they? Hardly anything happens on a wall, in comparison to a gaming monitor. But Valerion’s fixed that, because its range of StreamMaster and VisionMaster projectors can output at up to 300 inches of 4K UHD resolution and super-responsive 240Hz refresh rates at 1080p for butter-smooth gaming. Finally, walls get the QOL update they’ve so desperately needed for centuries.This Prime Day you can bag a real bargain on...
The Amber Mutation was added to Grow a Garden as part of the Prehistoric Update, but rather than relying on weather or the time of day like the other mutations, this one's a little bit harder to get ahold of for your plants. It won't randomly happen, but luckily there are a few ways you can go about getting it for your farm.These ways don't come cheap though. You'll need...
As technology moves forward there will always be laws, frantically running behind them desperate to keep up. The problem is technology moves fast. Really fast. Especially compared to lawmakers. It's why we see countless of uncertain law cases around fields in tech especially when it comes to things like the internet and AI. It's also why the UK is needing to rethink its laws around sabotage when it comes to...
Those pounding footsteps you hear approaching from the distance? That's Giants Software, makers of Farming Simulator 25. They're finally catching up with the rest of us.Ask any virtual farmer what they like to do when they're not planting seeds or harvesting crops, and the answer is inevitably: "fishing." From Stardew Valley to Valheim and everything in between, there's a cardinal rule when it comes to videogames: if you can plant...