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‘No bloat, no telemetry, no nonsense.’ Former Microsoft coding wizard makes an OG Notepad clone that’s just 2,686 bytes in size
How about tackling File Explorer next?
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Sony will no longer produce discs for PlayStation games starting in January 2028, citing “consumer preferences” as the reason why
Sony has announced today it’s ceasing production of discs for PlayStation games, effective January 2028. Beyond that point, PlayStation games will be available digitally only. Notably, PlayStation games will continue to be sold at retail, just without a physical disc. Read more
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GTA 6 devs have to opt-out of crunch, claim Rockstar North insiders, because it’s baked into their contracts
Three current Rockstar employees in the UK have accused the Grand Theft Auto 6 studio of effectively baking crunch into their contracts, overseeing a widening gender pay gap, and weaponising bonuses to make workers more compliant, in a new report. It comes as Rockstar gear up for the much-trumpeted console release of GTA 6 this…
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Rhythm Paradise Groove review
The beat-matching classic returns in fine voice. Read more
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Security researchers have leveraged bad maths to get around AI safety guardrails, naming the attack method after one of 2007’s best PC games
‘Victory is defeat’.
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‘I cannot do my job when Microsoft refuses to do theirs’, say Xbox union workers as destructive reset looms from a company that spent over $80 billion on AI last year
“Why would a game developer bother to put forward their best work under these conditions?”
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Helldivers 2 is once again spoofing Donald Trump’s wall with the Frontlines of Freedom update, which launches a new campaign “to make the galaxy safe again”
Helldivers 2’s latest in-game campaign sees the champions of strategically mitigated democracy supervising the construction of yet another massive wall of pine-scented gas in space. Kicking off with the Frontlines of Freedom update, out now, it’s a bid to keep those evil “fascist” Terminid insects away from Super Earth, building on the foundations of the…
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With 32 GB as a minimum and 64 GB as the recommended amount, Cinder City’s RAM requirements are all kinds of wrong in today’s AI-mangled memory market
But hey, at least an RTX 4060 is good enough to meet the recommended GPU specs. Wait, what?
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Exodus’ character creator won’t let you totally mess up its protagonist’s “established look” with nose and brow slider chicanery, but you can still pick a beard
If you were planning to spend hours making sure your chin looks just right and ensuring your eyes aren’t too close together when you fire up Mass Effecty sci-fi RPG Exodus, I’ve got bad news. Rather than a slider-based character creator with ten million sliders controlling the likes of cheek yaw and ear curvitude, devs…