There was a brief surge of excitement a couple days ago when Larian Studios temporarily changed its handle on X from @larianstudios to @divinity. This was a big deal (or at least it appeared to be) because prior to hitting the big big time with Baldur's Gate 3, Larian was known as the studio behind the very long-running Divinity series of mostly-RPGs—and the name change had an awful lot of...

Art rock legend Brian Eno has called on Microsoft to sever its ties with the government of Israel, saying the company's provision of cloud and AI services to Israel's Ministry of Defense "support a regime that is engaged in actions described by leading legal scholars and human rights organizations, the United Nations experts, and increasing numbers of governments from around the world, as genocidal."Eno's connection with Microsoft goes back 30...

After fans cratered the Stalker trilogy's Steam reviews to 'Mostly negative' in the hours immediately following launch, GSC Game World has released patch 1.0.1 for its "fully remastered and optimised" trio of original Stalker games. This one promises fixes for crashes across multiple platforms, issues with the games remembering what the hell your settings are and, crucially, "Fixed issues with missing geometry on several levels."Which might not sound like the...

The second you combine bugs and idle games, I'm sold. Staring at sprites of tiny creepy-crawlies is rapidly becoming one of my favourite pastimes, which probably explains why Bugaboo Pocket has rapidly risen to the top of my list of best indie games this year. It seems like I'm not the only one who has a particular love for beasties big and small though, as bug-themed idle games are all...

SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless Headset | PlayStation Version (PC compatible) | 40 mm drivers | Fully retractable mic arm | Active Noise Cancellation | 10–40,000 Hz | 30 hr battery | $349.99 $228.93 at AmazonSo comfortable you'll never want to take them off, the hotswappable batteries and DAC that doubles as a charging dock may mean you never have to. That said, I really wouldn't recommend sleeping in these…...

Rogue chatbots resorting to blackmail and pondering consciousness? It has to be clickbait, right? Actually, no. One of the leading organisations in LLMs or large language models, Anthropic, has published a safety report covering its latest model, Claude Opus 4, and one of the more eye-popping subsections is titled, "Opportunistic blackmail" and explains how the model performs blackmail in "84% of rollouts." Yikes.Before we unplug and run for the hills...

Image 1 of 2(Image credit: Future)Image 2 of 2(Image credit: Future)Noctua's iconic chocolate and vanilla swirl colourway is about as notable as its fans. If you want a high-performing fan in your PC case, there's a good chance Noctua is the one providing it. Now, you can get even more Noctua as a case has just been announced. It's a collaboration with Antec on its gorgeous Flux Pro case, but...

It may seem strange for a developer that created a galaxy filled with trillions of planets to follow it up with a game where there's only one. But No Man's Sky developer Hello Games is doing just that: Light No Fire, its next open world survival adventure, will be contained to a single planet. Thing is, that planet is big. Real big.No Man's Sky was huge in a lot of...

Solve your daily Wordle game in a flash with today's answer, all typed up and ready to help you win. Or you could take it nice and slow if that all sounds like a bit much, keeping our May 23 (1434) hint to one side, ready the instant you need a push. Either way, you've got Friday's game sorted.Wow, that was fast. Weirdly fast. My first row wasn't anything outstanding...

When Games Workshop first released sci-fi miniatures for Warhammer 40,000 in the 1980s the line included space dwarfs, also called squats, with a hairy biker aesthetic—like if the forgemasters of trad fantasy evolved into greasy spaceship mechanics. Never as popular as space elves or space orks, by the second edition of Warhammer 40,000 they were written out of the setting as a casualty of the tyranid invasion, and Warhammer players...