Upcoming shooter Reaper Actual throws up some big red flags, but its creators are MMO and FPS heavyweights who can’t easily be dismissed

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Reaper Actual is a hard sell. It’s a plain-looking modern military extraction shooter with Web3 stuff, and I’ve seen enough of those to know that I’d probably rather be playing Battlefield. But the man behind Reaper Actual, former Sony Online Entertainment and Daybreak head John Smedley, has snared me before. I spent a whole summer … Read more

On his 75th birthday, Apple legend Steve Wozniak pops up in a comment thread about his ‘bad decision’ to sell his stock in the ’80s with a devastatingly zen reply: ‘I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for’

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If Steve Wozniak had “only” designed the Apple II, one of the foundational computers of the early PC era, he’d still be a computing legend. But after leaving Apple in the mid-’80s Wozniak went on to help establish the Electronic Frontier Foundation, sponsored the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose, and has spent the last … Read more

Partying with Hololive vtubers is finally possible with an app that is basically VRChat for fans of anime girl streamers

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Talking in Twitch and YouTube chat just isn’t the same as standing in a crowd watching your favorite vtuber perform. Live shows and concerts aren’t new for Hololive, one of the biggest vtuber agencies in the world, but a virtual space that attempts to emulate what it’s like to meet your favorite streamers is “the … Read more

I had low expectations for this upcoming FMV ‘interactive horror’ game, but its hour-long demo turned out to be one of the most entertaining things I’ve played all year

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The first time I encountered the multi-tentacled specimen living in the guts of the anonymous, unconscious woman lying on the operating table, I was genuinely creeped out. It was gooey, pulsating slightly, and clearly on the cusp of doing something startling and very gross. A few minutes later, it did, and it was—and I died … Read more

Bongo Cat, still one of the biggest games on Steam, gets even bigger with multiplayer: You can now have up to 100 cats on your screen at once, all of them happily bapping away as their owners type

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Back in April we discovered Bongo Cat, a silly idle game about a cat with a hat who smacks your screen when you type. Silly, but also huge: Bongo Cat was one of the biggest games on Steam at the time, holding the number 12 spot on Steam’s most played chart. Four months later it’s … Read more