Jess Kinghorn, hardware writer, amateur artist(Image credit: Future)This week: Besides levelling up my horse girls in Umamusume: Pretty Derby, I asked my best friend to draw me as one of the expeditioners in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (because that RPG really has become my entire personality).On account of my truly abysmal handwriting, the last time I picked up a pencil was to doodle a crude Magikarp in my best friend's...

When remasters of Heretic and Hexen were surprise-released last week, my interest was piqued despite myself. I played both in the '90s and didn't love either of them. Released in 1994 by Raven Software, Heretic was a fantasy take on Doom and it was OK. The following year Hexen offered an RPG take on Doom—by way of Heretic—and it drove me nuts.The weapons in Heretic were novel enough. I loved...

However much help you need with today's Wordle, we've got something below that'll sort your game out. Need a bit of guidance to get you going? That's what the August 12 (1515) clue's for. Want someone to sort that one weird yellow letter that just won't behave out? Give our hints a try. Out of lines and luck? We've got some good news for you: the answer to today's Wordle...

I don't think you can go by a nom-de-plume like "Soulframe" without really, really loving videogames.More than a decade before Digital Extremes started cooking up its Warframe sequel, young Chinese architecture student Qiwei Liang came up with the name as his internet handle, and has been using it ever since. It lasted through his stint as a grad student at Yale and his return to China after his first game,...

I wasn't sure what to make of Woochi the Wayfarer when I first saw the title, but I reflexively assumed it would be cozy, and probably star a large anthropomorphic animal—an overweight bear, perhaps—with a bindle. I could not have been further off the mark if I had put conscious effort into it. It is in fact inspired by the "classic Korean novel" The Tale of Jeon Woochi, about a...

The last thing I expected out of a mech game was to be reminded of World of Warcraft, but Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion is just as interested in letting you lazily explore its open world as it is slicing enemies apart with energy swords.If you ignore the Iron Man-style mech suit, Titanic Scion is an MMO with dozens of tasks to do around its oversized levels. It was technically...

Speaking as my own harshest critic, I can understand how difficult it is to break out of habitual self-deprecation. Luckily, with some healthy introspection, understanding, and awareness, it's something we can unlearn. Unluckily for large language models, those are three capabilities they fundamentally lack.If an LLM is, for example, trained on an entire internet's worth of programmers enduring dark journeys of the soul while struggling to solve a problem, you...

First reported by Automaton, veteran programmer Koji Sugimoto (Chrono Trigger, Xenogears, Final Fantasy 10) criticized modern games' emulation of retro visual glitches, specifically the affine texture warping of the original PlayStation, a frequent feature of lo-fi, throwback indie games.On August 5, Sugimoto responded to a tweet from Unity Japan about a new tool in the engine to let devs more easily emulate the PS1's texture warping effect, a limitation of...

Ubisoft is no stranger to its videogame news leaking ahead of time, but this is the first time I can remember one of its TV shows leaking early. And the leak is coming from inside the house: an article about a new television project appeared on Ubisoft's own news site over the weekend but was then quickly removed.Not quickly enough, however: the now-missing news post announced that a live-action Far...