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I have more digital stuff than ever before. My work email account is nearly 20 years old. My personal email is even older. I have gigs and gigs of old photos and documents and songs and videos in the cloud and on physical backup drives. I will probably never need whatever’s inside “Junk april 2011,” … Read more

‘Touch grass, read a book, throw a ball, get tackled once in a while’: Epic Games art director and OG System Shock 2 artist says the best-looking videogames are designed by people who don’t just look at videogames

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Nate Wells on the Art Direction of System Shock 2 | Deep Dive – YouTube Watch On Nate Wells, Epic Games art director and former artist on Looking Glass Studios classics like Thief: The Dark Project and System Shock 2, said in this week’s episode of the Nightdive Studios Deep Dive podcast that the ecosystem … Read more

EA tosses a last-minute life preserver to fans who missed out on Battlefield 6 beta early access, offers one more chance to get in

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Just as the requirements for getting into the two-day early access Battlefield 6 beta appeared set in stone, EA is giving folks another chance to get a 48-hour head start on the fun. “Watch 30 minutes of any creator streaming Battlefield 6 on Twitch during August 7-8 to unlock Open Beta Early Access,” the official … Read more

Thousands of people are so eager to blow stuff up in the Battlefield 6 beta they’re idling in the main menu

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The Battlefield 6 beta doesn’t properly start for two more days, but that isn’t stopping thousands of eager hill campers from getting in on the action. The beta peaked at over 9,000 concurrent players on Steam yesterday after preloading opened. Presumably most of those people popped in for a few minutes to get some formalities … Read more

Kingmakers, the medieval combat sim with tanks and M16s, warns that guns don’t always win knife fights: ‘Not all of your bullets will have an easy time taking down all enemy types’

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Kingmakers – Early Access Release Date Trailer | tinyBuild Connect 2025 – YouTube Watch On Kingmakers, the game that asks ‘What if you brought an M1 Abrams main battle tank to a knife fight,’ is set to enter early access on October 8, and with that date slowly grinding nearer developer Redemption Road has released … Read more

No more deploy beacon clown cars for recon players in Battlefield 6—the assault class will get them instead: ‘We’re intentionally redefining it as a teamplay tool for frontline flanking’

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Ever played a Battlefield game and watched, haplessly, as some jerk with a sniper rifle makes a camp in a hard-to-reach building and turns it into a clown car? Well, that’s not gonna be how Battlefield 6 does it anymore. That’s according to an X post from the Battlefield Comms account ahead of the Battlefield … Read more

DeepMind CEO makes big brain claims, saying AGI could be here within ‘five to 10 years’ and cause humanity to experience widespread change that’s ’10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and maybe 10 times faster’

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Another week, another prominent name being perhaps all too optimistic about the future of AI. This time it’s Google DeepMind CEO and former Lionhead developer Demis Hassabis, claiming that advances in AI will usher in a seismic shift that’s “going to be 10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution, and maybe 10 times faster.” To … Read more

AMD’s new AM6 socket has all the pins—2,100 of ’em—but don’t worry, your old CPU cooler will apparently still fit just fine

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More pins equals more performance, right? If so, get ready for AMD’s next-gen AM6 CPU socket. According to a new AMD patent filing (via Bits and Chips), it’ll have about 2,100 of the pointy little suckers, a significant step up from the 1,718 pins of AM5. But here’s the really good news, the socket is … Read more