Playing with Life
For years, smartphone battery capacity seemed to have reached an unofficial ceasefire. Flagship phone? Around 5,000mAh. Mid-range phone? Around 5,000mAh. Next year’s flagship…
If you have played Skyrim, Oblivion, or Morrowind, there is a decent chance you’ve spent hundreds of hours in a series called The Elder…
For years, PC gaming performance had one obvious villain: the graphics card. Game runs badly? Lower the resolution. Turn down…
Opening a Cheat Engine table can become surprisingly repetitive. You open the table. You attach Cheat Engine to the game. Then…
Someone cuts you off in traffic. You think: Idiot. Then you keep driving. Someone else experiences the exact same event and immediately begins auditioning…
There is a strange way to describe the modern economy. Most of us spend our lives doing two things. First, we sell…
Imagine spending years designing your own CPU architecture because you no longer want to depend on Intel, AMD, Arm, or…
For years, fighting games seemed to have a fairly obvious problem. They were too difficult. Combos were difficult. Motion inputs were…
Fallout’s America had a government. Technically. But by 2077, enormous corporations were building military robots, developing biological weapons, running nuclear shelters,…
There is something comforting about selfish people. Not pleasant, obviously. You probably do not want one managing your retirement fund, borrowing…
Slow motion is one of those cheats that sounds silly until you actually try it. In a shooter, it can…
For a long time, the economics of smartphone apps were fairly easy to understand. There were apps. And then there were games,…
Calling someone stupid usually means one of two things. Maybe they failed an exam. Maybe they tried to assemble IKEA…
Destroying civilisation is surprisingly easy in Fallout. Rebuilding it is where everyone starts arguing. More than two centuries after the Great…
There has never been a better time to be a person who wants information. Within seconds, you can learn what…
I recently talked to several friends who work for major desktop PC component companies. Different companies. Different jobs. Different parts of…
China has spent enormous amounts of money trying to build a more independent semiconductor industry. And, to be fair, money solves…
Opening a Cheat Engine table usually goes something like this: Fortunately, they can. Cheat Engine supports automatic process attachment, and you…
For most of the AI era, the loudest questions have been about intelligence. How smart will AI become? Will it surpass…
Human beings are remarkably bad at accepting terms and conditions. We click “I agree” on software licenses without reading them,…
