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‘I am a big roguelike guy, but also a fan of minimalism and elegance’: Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story, guides us through the games in his Steam Library
PC Gamer profiled Sam Barlow, the developer behind acclaimed narrative games such as Her Story and Immortality, exploring the titles that make up his personal Steam library. The piece offers a glimpse into the tastes of a well-known indie creator, showing how his gaming habits blend the experimental, story-driven design he’s known for with an…
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This ‘adversarial’ pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you
A cybersecurity researcher named Bill Swearingen has developed computer-generated patterns that, when applied to clothing or vehicles, prevent surveillance cameras and licence plate readers from detecting people or objects covered by them. Rather than blocking cameras from recording, the patterns, part of a project called noRecognition, scramble the detection algorithms so no alert is triggered,…
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PS5’s Fastest Growing Open World Adds Beach Volleyball, Jet Skis, and Construction Work
Chinese developer Hotta Studio is rolling out another substantial content update to its open-world PS5 title NTE on 19th August, adding activities including beach volleyball, jet ski races, and construction-based minigames. The update continues the game’s unusually rapid pace of expansion, following a previous update that introduced an entire fantasy RPG mode, and reflects the…
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Dropbox is a PC builder’s best friend
A Verge senior editor recounts how using Dropbox to back up his home-built PC’s files saved him after two separate hard drive failures, arguing that cloud backup is essential insurance for anyone with a lot of important local data. He set up Dropbox to mirror his work partition after taking on a large crowdfunded project…
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‘Our Time Will Come’ Review: Two Orphans Journey to Accra to Find Their Kin in an Emotionally Absorbing Ghanaian Drama
Amartei Armar’s debut feature “Our Time Will Come” is an emotionally resonant Ghanaian drama that follows two orphaned children as they journey to Accra in search of family, drawing loose inspiration from “Oliver Twist” while avoiding excessive misery. The film premiered at Locarno after being developed through Marrakech’s 2025 Atlas Workshops under the working title…
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Peak gets its final major update and a “new secret for you to discover” next week
Developer Aggro Crab has confirmed that its co-op climbing game Peak will receive its final major update on 11th August, alongside a teaser trailer titled “The Final Ascent”. The update marks a significant milestone for the indie hit, which became one of publisher Landfall’s string of multi-million-selling titles alongside Content Warning and Totally Accurate Battlegrounds.…
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Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: ‘This essentially saved my life’
A former XCOM 2 developer has released “Rubicon Rumble Pack”, a cancelled Quake 4 expansion, publicly on GitHub after finding it stored on an old hard drive. The developer, who worked on the project during a difficult period, said rediscovering and sharing the lost content had a profound personal impact, describing the release as something…
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The Complicated Case of Passing On Your Digital Estate
Managing a deceased or incapacitated person’s online accounts, from cloud storage to social media to cryptocurrency, has become a growing headache for grieving families, particularly when no advance planning has taken place. Wired’s guide explains that without a clear inventory of digital assets and instructions for what should happen to them, survivors often have no…
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Meetily Lets You Transcribe and Summarize Meetings Without a Subscription—Here’s How
Meetily is a free, open-source meeting assistant that transcribes and summarises meetings without requiring a paid subscription. It addresses two common drawbacks of commercial meeting-assistant tools, which typically cost $10 to $20 a month and require uploading recordings to the cloud, raising privacy concerns for sensitive discussions. The application runs on Windows and macOS (with…
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TCL Note A1 Nxtpaper Review (2026): A Hybrid Tablet for Taking Notes and Watching Video
Wired has reviewed the TCL Note A1 Nxtpaper, a hybrid tablet that aims to combine digital note-taking with full Android tablet functionality, including video playback. Unlike dedicated E Ink devices such as the reMarkable or Kindle Scribe, it uses a proprietary matte LCD panel to approximate a paper-like writing feel while retaining colour display and…