Author: Zach_Wilson
Morbid Metal developer explains why he ditched an origami art direction in favor of gritty sci-fi — ‘It worked, but it didn’t really feel like me’
Morbid Metal developer Felix Schade has discussed the inspirations behind his game’s art direction He originally intended to make an origami-themed game, but pivoted to gritty sci-fi He was also greatly encouraged by Bright Memory: Infinite Morbid Metal developer Felix Schade has discussed the art direction of the recently launched…
Read More
‘71% of US households get routers from ISPs’: Why new FCC rules could leave millions stuck with outdated, insecure hardware
FCC rules block new foreign routers while old, vulnerable ones stay in homes longer ISP customers cannot upgrade routers even when security risks become widely known Router approvals now depend on waivers that may slow down nationwide replacements The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued new rules intended to address…
Read More
Pokémon Champions isn’t perfect, but that hasn’t stopped me playing it non-stop for days
Pokémon Champions has had a mixed debut, but the haters are wrong — this title is precisely what I dreamed it would be: the perfect jumping-in point to Video Game Championships (VGC), the series’ competitive format. Champions is a free-to-play title for the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2— with a…
Read More
Room for the Moon is thrillingly weird experimental pop
For obvious reasons, I’ve had Moon on the mind all week. So I was trying to figure out what I should recommend this week that would thematically fit. Brian Eno’s Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks is incredible, and if you haven’t listened to it, go do that now. But it also…
Read More
‘The CPU is the system’s executive layer’: Intel joins SambaNova as both face existential threat from Nvidia’s Groq-powered inference
GPUs handle prefill operations by converting prompts into key-value caches SambaNova RDUs generate tokens at high throughput and low latency Intel Xeon 6 processors manage workload distribution and execute compiled code Intel and SambaNova Systems have introduced a joint hardware blueprint combining GPUs, SambaNova RDUs, and Intel Xeon 6 processors…
Read More
Rockstar Games says hack will have ‘no impact’
Rockstar confirmed on Saturday that some of its data was compromised in a breach of a third-party provider. The group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility, saying it had gained access to the company’s Snowflake instances (a cloud-hosting provider popular with enterprise customers) via Anodot, a cost-monitoring and analytics service. The group is…
Read More