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Julian Gollop, creator of the original X-COM game - known as UFO: Enemy Unknown here in the UK, and followed up by Firaxis' XCOM: Enemy Unknown later on - has told Eurogamer that he would be quite happy to return to the series in some form. Also, that he's fine with still being known as just "the X-COM guy" - despite the few decades' worth of subsequent games he's made since.
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Trump removed the military's top officer without explanation as the defense secretary purged the Pentagon's top ranks of five uniformed leaders. Read more ›
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Nvidia and research partners introduce Evo 2. Evo 2 can identify disease-causing mutations and assist in synthetic genome design. Nvidia and its research partners have developed an artificial intelligence model designed to analyse genetic sequences at an unprecedented scale. Announced on February 19, the Evo 2 AI is built to read and design genetic code... Read more » Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival, xAI, says it’s investigating why its Grok AI chatbot suggested that both President Donald Trump and Musk deserve the death penalty. xAI has already patched the issue and Grok will no longer give suggestions for who it thinks should receive capital punishment. People were able to get Grok to say that […] Read more ›
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I would support it because we already voted no on immutability in 2016, Hayes said on X. Others are worried that a potential rollback would hurt the Ethereum ecosystem. Read more ›
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Letâs pause and look at what the Elon Musk administration has done so far. Thereâs been a lot of panic about the immediate but somewhat abstract constitutional crisis as Elon Muskâs misleadingly-named Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) rips the government apart. And as much fun as we all are having watching Congress render itself irrelevant […] Read more ›
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Experts say the conflicts posed by Tom Krause’s dual roles are unprecedented in the modern era. Read more ›
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The cybersecurity lead for VA.gov was fired last week. He tells WIRED that the Veterans Affairs digital hub will be more vulnerable without someone in his role. Read more ›
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The more than 8,000 charging ports available to federal workers are "not mission critical," says the Government Services Agency. Read more ›
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Meta has offered up a lucrative new executive bonus plan, according to a company filing released Thursday. Under the new plan, executives could earn a yearly bonus of 200 percent of their base salary, which is up from 75 percent. This comes just after Meta announced sweeping layoffs impacting five percent of its workforce. A committee for Meta’s board of directors approved the change on February 13, on the grounds... Read more ›
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It’s true: Nvidia has just confirmed it shipped some RTX 5090, RTX 5090D, and even some RTX 5070 Ti graphics chips that were missing render units, as TechPowerUp originally reported — and that you’ll be able to get a replacement if your card was affected. Nvidia global PR director Ben Berraondo tells The Verge: We […] Read more ›
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Trump and Musk keep talking up the idea of sending checks to Americans. But GOP lawmakers, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, keep batting it down. Read more ›
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California Governor Gavin Newsom this week recommended former Apple CEO Steve Jobs for the $1 American Innovation Coin for the State of California that will be minted by the U.S. Mint. Each state is able to create a unique coin recognizing an innovation or innovator from their region as part of the Innovation Coin Program that was launched in 2018. Newsom said that Steve Jobs "encapsulates the unique brand of... Read more ›
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Around a dozen current and former federal workers are behind a new website created as an outlet to share anonymous stories and technical expertise about the Department of Government Efficiency’s dismantling of government agencies. “We the Builders” aims to be a secure outlet for government workers to share how their workplaces are being impacted by […] Read more ›
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Live stream Australia vs. England in the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy for free from anywhere in the world. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump says he wants the US to have the cleanest air and water on the planet — a desire, unsurprisingly, shared by all Americans. Those resources don’t just appear. They come from nature. Freshwater mussels, clams, and aquatic vegetation, for example, filter rivers and streams and provide clean places to swim and habitat for […] Read more ›
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Judge Carl Nichols in a Friday ruling allowed President Donald Trump's staff reductions in the US Agency for International Development to proceed. Read more ›
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The move comes as the company was hit by an encryption backdoor order under the UK Investigatory Powers Act. Here's all we know so far. Read more ›
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Team Fortress 2 maker Valve has handed over the game's full client and server code to fans, encouraging them to "change, extend or rewrite" TF2 in any non-commercial way possible. Read more Read more ›
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Half-Life 2 art director and Dishonored designer Viktor Antonov has died aged just 52. Read more Read more ›
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Xbox boss Phil Spencer said he's "not trying to move [PS5 and PC] all over to Xbox anymore", acknowledging that players are "all so invested in where our games are", all he wants to do now is "allow more people to play" Xbox games on other systems. Read more Read more ›
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Sony has confirmed its $10 upgrade offer for Days Gone Remastered won't apply to anyone who previously had the game's PS4 version via PlayStation Plus, disappointing some fans. Read more Read more ›
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I'm having a lovely time in Avowed, a game about bonking little lizard men on the head, skipping through classic, florid fantasy countryside, and walking up to NPCs to receive vast dumps of expository dialogue. It's a game that's less interested in doing something radical with the structure - this is a pretty straight-ahead, sword-n-spells, skill-and-dialogue-tree action adventure - than it is the sheer vividity of its delivery. Read more Read more ›
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The Last of Us' Neil Druckmann has said making sequels to Naughty Dog's beloved franchises requires a level of confidence that, believe it or not, he claims he doesn't have. Read more Read more ›
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MachineGames' finessing of last year's stellar Indiana Jones and the Great Circle continues today with the launch of the acclaimed action-adeventure's third major update. This time around, there's support for a range of new graphics features on PC - including DLSS 4 - as well as the usually array of bug fixes and more. Read more Read more ›
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Almost six years on from its debut, Xbox CEO of Gaming Phil Spencer has confirmed that Rare's mysterious fantasy deer adventure Everwild is still in development. Read more Read more ›
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Microsoft has announced its line-up of Xbox Game Pass titles for the latter half of February. Read more Read more ›
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Former PlayStation exec Shuhei Yoshida played Naughty Dog's ill-fated The Last of Us Online and said "it was great". Read more Read more ›
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