Gaming & Culture
Happy Paintings, the developer behind the amazing RPG Maker titles Fear & Hunger and Fear & Hunger 2: Termina, has recently spoken about the third game in the series and its possible directions. You’ll be pleased to know that they’re just as radical as the changes between the first two entries. On Twitter, Happy Paintings recently posted a few of their…
With the big Summer update for Hitman World of Assassination, developer IO Interactive introduced new challenges to the game to keep players busy in what is usually a quiet period for releases. Some of these challenges, like the Sapienza Sports Club, are downright fiendish. To complete the Sapienza Sports Club challenge in Hitman World of…
Enlarge / A thing that exists through ROM hacking, and ROMHacking.net: Super Mario Land 2, in color. (credit: Nintendo/Toruzz) If there was something wrong with an old game, or you wanted to make a different version of it, and you wanted people to help you fix that, you typically did that on RomHacking.net. After this…
On the heels of Apple rolling out an early preview of iOS 18.1 with its first generative AI (genAI) tools, IDC this week released a report saying nearly three-in-four smartphones will be running AI features in four years. Apple first announced its plans to add AI features to devices through its Apple Intelligence platform at…
Apple beat expectations in its third quarter and has wind beneath its wings on strength of the recent Microsoft/Crowdstrike debacle that cost companies billions of dollars. The tide is turning, and turning fast. Regular readers will know we’ve been reporting on the steady rise of Apple in the enterprise over the last decade or so. By focusing on…
Enlarge / There is something so wonderfully obscene about having a town with hundreds of people living their lives, running into conflict, hoping for better, and your omnipotent self is stuck on which bookcase best fits this living room corner. YesBox Naming a game must be incredibly hard. How many more Dark Fallen Journeys and Noun:…
Music label companies Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Group sued AI startups Suno and Udio in June, arguing that the companies had trained their AI model by collecting copyrighted material from the internet. Now, according to Engadget, Suno has confirmed that its AI model was indeed trained on copyrighted material from…
Six years ago, the end of net neutrality in the US meant that carriers such as AT&T and Verizon were free to prioritize certain services at the expense of others. Since becoming taking office in 2021, President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s administration has been trying to reverse that decision and restore net neutrality. Those efforts…
Developer Kokku and publisher Paradox Interactive have announced that Prison Architect 2 has been delayed indefinitely. In a recent blog post, they explained that, following multiple internal reviews, more time is required to get the game to meet the teams’ standards and expectations. Prison Architect 2 was originally slated for a September 3, 2024 release,…
The infamous “Kill 5” Personal Order has returned to Helldivers 2, causing confusion for those who didn’t see it the first time around. However, we now know how to complete this objective, and thankfully, it aligns with our current Major Order. The “Kill 5” Personal Order in Helldivers 2 requires you to kill 5 Automaton…