An oldie but a goodie: John Carmack once told us Quake Arena ‘was my favourite id Software game… always the one that I looked at as a pure game’
The game just “stands the test of time.”
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Ubisoft union workers agree settlement, legal advice for game devs, and is Xbox Game Pass too expensive? – Patch Notes #48
Plus: Among Us tops 1 billion downloads on Google Play and Epic is betting big on Disney.
Read moreGoogle Blocks 8.3B Policy-Violating Ads in 2025, Launches Android 17 Privacy Overhaul
Google this week announced a new set of Play policy updates to strengthen user privacy and protect businesses against fraud, even as it revealed it blocked...
Read moreNvidia RTX 5070 spotted at rare MSRP price in Woot flash sale — move fast to secure a bargain, 38% off saves you $340
Get an RTX 5070 for MSRP at Woot, now just $549.
Read moreMeta is raising the price of the Quest 3 and Quest 3S due to memory price rises made worse by Meta
“We’re making this change because the cost of building high-performance VR hardware has risen significantly.”
Read moreIntel launches Wildcat Lake Core Series 3 processors: Kitten-sized chips for the business and budget markets only
Wildcat Lake has all of Panther Lake’s goodies, except for its big iGPU.
Read moreCommodore fans split over C64 Ultimate FPGA firmware lockdown — firm says it wants to protect its hardware and reduce support fallout
The retro community seems sharply divided over a decision by Commodore regarding locking down firmware access in its C64 Ultimate computer.
Read moreRally Point: Genre-crushing choose-your-own strategy Heart of the Machine might be peak Arcen
Centuries ago, before 2022, before the Good Darkness of 2020, before the Before Times of 2015, the ancient age before even that of 2013, and perhaps,...
Read moreThe Influencers Normalizing Not Having Sex
From a celibate porn star to an asexual ex-Mormon, the internet is full of people who are abstaining from sex—and it’s not just incels.
Read moreAMD to resurrect Ryzen 7 5800X3D AM4 with 10th anniversary edition, leaker claims — return of legendary CPU a sign of bleak PC building landscape
AMD is rumored to launch the Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition in the second quarter of this year.
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GCC Compiler Adds Arm AGI CPU Target
The GCC open-source compiler has landed initial targeting support for Arm’s newly-announced AGI CPU…
Read moreAnthropic Introduces Agent-Based Code Review for Claude Code
Anthropic has introduced a new Code Review feature for Claude Code, adding an agent-based pull request review system that analyzes code changes using multiple AI reviewers....
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