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Reporting on the systems, tools and people quietly deciding what the next decade runs on.
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Mount & Blade Has Taken All of Us by Surprise
Five years after release, the medieval sandbox is posting its best player numbers yet. The reason is not a sale or a sequel, but…
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The Camouflage of the Future is This
Cephalopod-inspired skins get the headlines, but the labs closest to a working system have given up on disappearing. The goal now is to look…
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Milky Way Has Much More Habitable Planet Than Initially Thought
A reworked treatment of detection bias in red dwarf surveys nearly doubles the estimated number of temperate rocky worlds. What the new figure actually…
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Hardland the Game and What to Expect
A lopsided, hand-modelled open world where the king has a birthday and the wildlife holds a grudge. Ahead of the Deepwood update, a guide…
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Washerman’s Creed: Try and be Something Completely Different
It starts as a joke about hooded stealth games and turns, somewhere around hour four, into a sincere and rather sad game about being…
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Indie Week: Closer Look at Divinity Original Sin
Larian crowdfunded it in 2013 and shipped a role-playing game with no interest in being polite. A decade on, its elemental chemistry set still…
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Let’s Play the Much Anticipated Banner Saga
The remastered caravan is out and the sun still has not moved. Notes from a first run through chapter one, in which we fed…
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Hot on Steam: Exploration and Creativity on Grand Scale
Four of the top ten sellers this month are games with no fail state at all. A look at why the autumn charts quietly…
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Fiction Writing Adventure, Elegy for a Snow Covered City in the North
Notes from four months of failing to write about a northern port town, and what the last bus of the night finally taught us…
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Meet the Team that is Responsible for the SETI Space Telescope
Fourteen people, a converted hangar in New Mexico and 240 cheap cameras pointed at the entire sky at once. Inside the instrument built to…
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