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Best build for Crimson Moon
This is a gaming guide from Destructoid outlining a recommended character build for the video game Crimson Moon, which uses a flexible, item-based archetype system rather than fixed classes. The article matters primarily to players of the game seeking practical advice on optimising their character setup, with the author sharing a personal build that has…
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30,000 people line up 24 hours early to play the final Wardogs closed beta, developer responds: ‘YOU PEOPLE ARE CRAZY’
Wardogs, an upcoming multiplayer shooter, saw more than 30,000 players queue up a full 24 hours before its final closed beta test went live, according to PC Gamer. The scale of the early queue caught the development team off guard, with a developer publicly reacting to the turnout by telling players “YOU PEOPLE ARE CRAZY,”…
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C# 15 preview adds union types ahead of November release
Microsoft is preparing to launch C# 15 in November, with a preview build already showing its most heavily requested feature: union types. These let developers group several distinct custom data types under a single umbrella type, giving the compiler a fixed, verifiable list of permitted variants and enabling simpler pattern matching, custom functions for grouped…
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Judge Dredd Meets Studio Ghibli in the Most Exciting Cyberpunk Game in Years
Neon Giant, the studio behind 2021’s The Ascent, unveiled No Law at Gamescom 2026, a new immersive sim that reworks familiar cyberpunk conventions with a sunlit, plant-overrun Mediterranean city called Port Desire rather than the usual rain-soaked, neon-drenched metropolis. After a closed-door, hands-off preview of roughly an hour, the reporter called it the most exciting…
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I rented a car, and within hours, my driver’s license was for sale
A security researcher discovered his driver’s licence, scanned during a routine car rental, was for sale on the dark web within hours—one of more than 153 million IDs listed on a new criminal marketplace called Nexus, according to an exposé by journalist Brian Krebs. The breach appears to stem from a third-party ID scanning service…
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DLSS 5 finally has a use case – making Cyberpunk 2077 genuinely dystopian
A leaked version of Nvidia’s DLSS 5 AI upscaling technology has been used by modders to render Cyberpunk 2077 in a hyperrealistic style, producing an unusually grim and grotesque depiction of the game’s setting, Night City. Unlike other games modded with the leaked tech, where only the characters tend to look unsettling, this version renders…
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FCC plans robocall scorecard to grade phone companies on spam call blocking
The US Federal Communications Commission has announced plans to create a “robocall mitigation scorecard” that would rate phone companies on how effectively they block illegal spam calls. The move is intended to give consumers clearer information about which wireless, wireline and VoIP providers are actually stopping robocalls, rather than simply checking whether providers have filed…
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Wary of Artemis IV timeline, NASA is changing lunar spacesuit design
NASA is simplifying the spacesuit design for its early crewed lunar landings, opting for a lighter “Sortie Suit” variant to be developed with Axiom Space, as the agency tries to keep its accelerated 2028 target for returning astronauts to the Moon’s South Pole. The move, directed by Artemis Program Manager Jeremy Parsons, aims to cut…
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How to Identify AI Music
As AI music generators such as Suno grow more sophisticated, the telltale signs of machine-made tracks have become subtler but remain detectable, particularly in guitar and drum textures. Early giveaways, such as basslines that never repeated a groove consistently, have largely disappeared, but AI still struggles to render the fine acoustic detail of physical instruments…
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United Nations says Britain should put statues of ‘people of African descent’ in public spaces to atone for the slave trade
The United Nations has said Britain should erect more statues honouring people of African descent as part of “reparatory justice” for the transatlantic slave trade. New guidance from the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) argues that former slave-trading nations have an “obligation to repair” the harm caused, extending beyond financial compensation…