Month: January 2024
The Morning After: This is Doom running on E. coli bacteria
MIT biotech researcher Lauren “Ren” Ramlan has run the iconic computer game Doom using gut bacteria. It’s not doing the running of the game, per se, but it is running (barely) on a display inside a cell wall made entirely of E. coli bacteria. The researcher dosed the bacteria with…
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Avowed director teases a ‘more focused’ experience rather than a ‘big sprawling’ one
Obsidian Entertainment’s upcoming fantasy role-playing game Avowed is set to release later this year, and its director Carrie Patel has spoken more about what players can expect from the experience. In a new interview with PCGamesN, Patel admitted that it’s “hard in 2024 to escape some comparison to Skyrim if…
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The Indiglo button let there be light
Long before the self-lit pixels of OLED phones illuminated our lives, there was a time many portable gadgets didn’t shine at all. Remember when the display of practically every Nintendo Game Boy was designed to be viewed by sunlight? Remember when it was tough to tell time with your average…
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Fate/stay night Remastered announced, offering the cult classic visual novel in English for the first time
Developer Type-Moon has revealed Fate/stay night Remastered, a remaster of the first game in the long-running Fate series that sees it officially released in English for the first time. Originally releasing on consoles as Fate/stay night Realta Nua for PlayStation 2 in 2007 (which was itself a significantly enhanced port…
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Palworld players can finally experience the joys of Pokémon with this realistic ‘legally-distinct’ mod
Palworld has yet another mod, but this one seeks to put the similarities between the open-world survival game and Pokémon to bed for good. “Welcome to the ‘The legally-distinct pocket creatures into Palworld Mod Pack,’ which adds your favorite original pocket creatures to Palworld, which is not based on a…
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Lawmakers propose anti-nonconsensual AI porn bill after Taylor Swift controversy
US lawmakers have proposed letting people sue over faked pornographic images of themselves, following the spread of AI-generated explicit photographs of Taylor Swift. The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE) Act would add a civil right of action for intimate “digital forgeries” depicting an identifiable person without their…
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