Enlarge / Kill monsters, pick up XP gems, upgrade character. reader comments 26 with 21 posters participating, including story author Share this story If you’re a fan of roguelites and haven’t heard of Vampire Survivors, let me be the first to welcome you to your new obsession. The “gothic horror casual game with roguelike elements,” ..
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Enlarge / Search through millions of vintage files with Discmaster. Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 65 with 59 posters participating, including story author Share this story Today, tech archivist Jason Scott announced a new website called Discmaster that lets anyone search through 91.7 million vintage computer files pulled from CD-ROM releases and floppy ..
reader comments 37 with 27 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Steve Mould re-created The Rings of Power title sequence using patterns produced by vibrating square plates. The first time I saw the opening credits for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, I thought the patterns looked remarkably like so-called “Chladni ..
Getty Images reader comments 88 with 74 posters participating Share this story Late last Friday, Nvidia decided that it was “unlaunching” the lower-end 12GB version of its upcoming GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card so that it could be renamed and released at a later date. This was good news for the people who care about ..
Enlarge / An example of eight papercraft vintage computer models designed and assembled by Rocky Bergen. reader comments 38 with 32 posters participating Share this story Yesterday, a Winnipeg, Canada-based artist named Rocky Bergen released a free collection of miniature papercraft vintage computer models that hobbyists can assemble for fun. They are available on The ..
Enlarge / Loading this onto a PS5 requires jumping through quite a few hoops. reader comments 21 with 19 posters participating Share this story For years now, Hideo Kojima’s cult classic P.T. (or “Playable Trailer” for a canceled Silent Hills project) has only been playable on the million or so increasingly hard-to-find PS4 consoles that downloaded ..
reader comments 22 with 19 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Hebrides Overture’s disappearing notes highlight the plight of humpback whales. Felix Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides was inspired by the composer’s 1829 trip to the British Isles. His overture has now inspired collaboration between a Cambridge economist and a composer, using sound to call attention ..
Enlarge / Part of the tutorial that will give new Dwarf Fortress players some pointers, if not full understanding, when the game is available on Steam at some point. Bay 12 Games / Steam reader comments 62 with 43 posters participating Share this story Dwarf Fortress, the fantasy mining simulation with the motto “losing is fun,” is ..
reader comments 145 with 103 posters participating Share this story Nvidia announced today that it would be “unlaunching” the 12GB version of its upcoming GeForce RTX 4080-series GPU on the basis that “having two GPUs with the 4080 designation is confusing.” The card will not be launching in the originally planned November window, but it ..
reader comments 58 with 40 posters participating Share this story Recent updates to online store and support pages suggested that all Modern Warfare II players would have to register a unique, text-capable phone number with their account to play the game. In a blog post this week, though, the team behind the game’s Ricochet anti-cheat ..
