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Reporting on the systems, tools and people quietly deciding what the next decade runs on.
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Gaming Specifications Are Skyrocketing
Recommended specs used to describe a machine that ran the game well. It now describes a machine that runs an upscaled two-thirds of the…
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What Some People Create in Minecraft Will Blow Your Mind
The astonishing part of a thousand-hour megabuild is not the scale. It is the version control, the shift rotas and the volunteer who spends…
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We Love to Discover Obvious Things That Are in Plain Sight
A bat roost that tourists have walked through since the 1970s turns out to hold two species, not one. The find came from a…
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Augmented Reality Review Process Is a Lot of Fun When Done Right
Spec sheets tell you nothing about a headset. We test ours on the same 800-metre loop through Shinjuku after dark, and almost everything fails…
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That Feeling When Street Walking
You hear the court before you see it. On the unwritten grammar of public basketball, and why the best walk through any city is…
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Dear Esther: Complete Movie with Walkthrough
Somebody has uploaded a full playthrough and called it the complete film. It cannot be, and the reason why is the most interesting thing…
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We Say Goodbye to Deponia, it was Nice Knowing You
The junk planet goes offline this month after thirteen years. A farewell to a series built around the least likeable protagonist adventure games ever…
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Exploring the Sunless Sea is a Might Tricky Task
Fuel, supplies, terror and a crew who will eat each other before they mutiny. A survival guide for the first ten captains you are…
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SpaceRace: Celebration of Mankind’s Heroes
Forty trailers on a dry lakebed, 1,140 names printed in eight-point type, and a curatorial argument that the space age had far more heroes…
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Take a Trip Down the 90’s Memory Lane
A Saturday car meet in a supermarket lot has become an accidental museum of the 1990s, and the people restoring the decade are not…
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