Author: [email protected] (Wes Fenlon)
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After 6 years, the FCC has voted to restore net neutrality regulations in a win for the open internet
Reversing a Trump-era ruling from 2018, the Federal Communications Commission voted today to restore net neutrality rules, so as to “bring back a national standard for broadband reliability, security, and consumer protection.” The vote has been several years in the making, as President Biden signed an executive order in 2021 directing the FCC to restore…
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Wake up! These spider-looking phenomena just spotted on Mars are clearly Helldivers 2 bugs preparing for a surprise attack
Stop me if you’ve heard one of these lines of propaganda before. Bugs can’t fly. The Automatons haven’t developed aerial gunships yet. There’s no such thing as a heavy machine gun. These images from the surface of Mars are just “seasonal eruptions of carbon dioxide gas,” not thousands of alien spiders gathering for an imminent…
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This Total War: Shogun 2 mod lets you play out the real historical war that inspired the FX TV show
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While PC gamers all over the place are flocking back to Fallout after having a great time watching the new Amazon TV series, I’m over here quietly despairing that there’s only a single episode of FX’s Shogun left to air. The new adaptation of the 1975 novel has been so excellent I even considered playing…
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Keanu Reeves is Shadow the Hedgehog in the third Sonic movie, fulfilling fan casting dreams
I can’t quite say I called it, because Keanu Reeves was only second on my list of likely Hollywood heavyweights to be cast as Shadow the Hedgehog. But boy was I close. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed today that Mr. Wick himself is playing the big bad in the third Sonic the Hedgehog film, according to…
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If you’re excited to dive back into Fallout after the TV show, maybe hold off on Fallout 3 for now
I played so much of Fallout 3 when it released in 2008 that the Wasteland really was a wasteland—I scoured that big, open map for every quest and scrap of loot and Nuka Cola bottle cap I could find. I loved it at the time, and I’d happily return to check in on my super…
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I tried two demos of machine learning AI NPCs, and they didn’t convince me AI will lead to anything that immersive sims like Deus Ex haven’t already done better
My favorite news story of 2023 had nothing to do with AI—or at least I didn’t think it did until recently, when I tried two demos from developers that are using parts of Nvidia’s “digital human technologies suite” to “bring game characters to life.” The story I’m talking about is this one: How deep was…
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Star Wars Outlaws is out this August, and wow does it look more jam-packed full of aliens than any Star Wars game I can remember
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Last year we wrote that Star Wars Outlaws looked like the best thing Ubisoft has made in years, and it hinted at a big enough scope that I was a little skeptical it would actually be released in 2024. But not only is it truly coming this year, it’s coming this summer: Ubisoft announced an…
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For their new roguelite, the Dead Cells team scrapped 2 years of work on combat and redid it in just 3 weeks: ‘We need to be able to dare to kill a feature when it doesn’t work’
Developers from Motion Twin, best known for incredibly popular roguelite Dead Cells, are in on the joke when they talk about the process of making their new game meaning they had to throw away tons of progress and start over. “We fail all the time. We’re like, OK, what we did is pure shit, let’s…
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The modder who added seamless co-op to Elden Ring just launched an Armored Core 6 co-op mod for up to 6 players, and it even adds PvP invasions
Extremely cool not-an-April-Fool’s-joke news alert: Armored Core 6 is co-op now. I loved the mech combat in Armored Core 6 when I reviewed it last year, and it was a strong enough singleplayer action game to run away with our best action game of the year award, just like Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice in 2019.…
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Classic ’90s space sim Star Wars: X-Wing had one mission that was so brutally hard, a fan cut up his floppy disks and mailed them back to LucasArts
Today’s Star Wars games are built for a broad spectrum of players to enjoy—2023’s Jedi: Survivor, for example, features challenging combat but is otherwise an easy to grasp third person action game. That wasn’t how Star Wars rolled in the early 1990s. Before George Lucas’s prequel trilogy brought the films back into the mainstream, game…