A New York resident who shares an address with Spider-Man has revealed that kids send letters to the superhero – and he actually receives them. Plenty of superheroes have headquarters and homes in real cities, but those addresses and buildings often don't exist in reality. There's no Stark Tower sitting...
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As the peak of El Niño draws closer, scientists are growing increasingly concerned about its potential impacts. According to several experts, California may be in for a particularly difficult winter. During a virtual town hall hosted by Senator Mike McGuire on Wednesday, climate scientists painted a grim picture of the...
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Space Engineers 2 now has a working example of fully automated mining in survival mode. The rig spins around a vertical axis and lowers drills into the ground without any player input, grinding out circle after circle. Over three hours, it produces roughly 560,000 units of iron and around 600,000...
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Space colonization in the Mass Effect universe works in a way that part of humanity flat out refuses to live under the Systems Alliance umbrella. People head out to the Terminus frontier specifically so the government stays out of their business, then act surprised when help doesn't show up in...
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Canadian officials have launched an investigation into how an innocent man ended up spending 18 months behind bars after police confused his username, inspired by Skyrim, with a nearly identical account. Brandon Klayme was acquitted of all charges on July 23 after the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal ruled that...
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An enthusiast going by the name TrashBench ran a radical GPU cooling experiment, ditching traditional heatsinks for direct water contact with the graphics chip silicon. The result turned out impressive, with temperatures dropping from 70°C to just 28°C. The modder already has a reputation for bold experiments, including mounting a...
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About a decade ago, Hello Games launched its long-awaited space game No Man's Sky. The launch was shaky, to put it mildly, but every update since has helped turn the 2016 title into a full-fledged entry in its genre rather than a forgettable disappointment. And Hello Games isn't slowing down....
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A screenshot from a cave in Minecraft featuring a wooden sign has apparently become the foundation for some genuinely unsettling theories. The sign, shared by a player, warns against digging down: Do not dig down! Scary cavern. Empty. Saw weird shit. The player had placed the sign themselves, then stumbled...
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The film "The Odyssey" has already pulled in more than $1 billion worldwide, rewriting Christopher Nolan career stats in the process. Combined earnings across all his films now sit close to $7 billion, up from $6.046 billion back in early July 2026. That jump pushed the director from seventh place...
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Introversion Software has announced Arise Dark Lord, a hybrid game that mixes action, real-time strategy, tower defense, and base building. Players take control of a Dark Lord and raise an army of the undead to wipe out humanity. That's a lot to take on, and the game backs it up...
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Daybreak Games and Cold Iron Studios have revealed a new trailer for Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, confirming along the way that the game is heading to Nintendo Switch 2. That version arrives later this year, while the main platforms get the game on August 25th. The biggest change from the...
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A regular power strip works in such a basic way that it seems impossible to break its logic. Under the plastic casing hide two long metal bars: one connects all the live contacts, the other all the neutral ones. That's exactly why someone might be tempted to plug a two-pronged...
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Unity called its latest financial results the best in its history as a public company. CEO Matt Bromberg credited the growth in overall revenue and Grow Solutions revenue to the ongoing success of the Unity Vector AI platform. The product roadmap following the announcement of Unity 7, set to launch...
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PC cases rarely survive more than a couple of upgrades. Usually people swap them out along with the motherboard, or just when they get tired of the old design. But sometimes hardware comes along that gets built once and never lets go for decades. This is about the Thermaltake Level...
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Cosmic Tofu has announced In the Van, a cozy survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world where players build a life inside a mobile base on wheels. The game page is already live on Steam. The whole concept revolves around the van as the center of the experience. It works...
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There's a special category of game series where you don't have to pick a favorite entry. Three games in a row turn out so consistent in quality that debating the best one becomes a pleasant formality. That exact phenomenon sparked a discussion about trilogies that never dropped the ball once....
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A developer using Claude Code shared a serious mistake their AI tool made, one that ended up wiping an entire drive. According to Ecstatic-Big5126, they had asked Opus 5 to back up their system. While working on the task, the AI decided it had created the backup in the wrong...
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Many owners of NVIDIA top-end graphics cards live in fear of the high-density 12 4-pin connector that powers their GPUs. This connector has shown questionable reliability compared to older PCI Express connectors, largely due to its extremely thin safety margin. One gamer decided that the existing protections on his card...
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Playing through a cult trilogy for the first time is a rare kind of luck, and longtime fans openly envy it. When someone sits down with the original Mass Effect without knowing a single plot twist, series veterans react predictably – with a flood of references the newcomer won't understand...
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A breakdown of strange locations in Diablo II made veterans with twenty-five years of experience admit that some of these spots they'd never actually seen. This isn't about hidden levels, but objects players ran past thousands of times. Each one has an explanation, whether in dialogue or buried in the...
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When indie publisher Devolver, known for Hotline Miami, The Talos Principle, and Baby Steps, announced its stock market debut, the move already seemed odd at the time. In 2021, listing on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market valued the studio at $950 million. Devolver boss Douglas Morin said at...
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Angelicore Game Studios released the first cinematic teaser for Angelic: Dark Symphony – a turn-based tactical RPG with a dark sci-fi narrative. The setting builds on a post-apocalyptic premise: humanity destroyed Earth, then created immortal synthetic beings meant to surpass human nature. They called them angels – and immediately tried...
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Homer's Odyssey has been through countless adaptations over the millennia, but few expected the ancient Greek epic to end up trekking through the jungles of Vietnam. YouTuber demonflyingfox released a musical AI video reimagining Nolan's film in a new setting. Odysseus's wanderings turn into a soldier's journey to survive and...
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Larian senior community manager Aiofe Wilson showcased 10 extremely rare endings and moments from Baldur's Gate 3, packing a surprising number of unexpected plot twists into just a few minutes of footage.Spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3 follow! A new video on Larian secondary YouTube channel reveals "the 10 rarest scenes...
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A lost piece of the Final Fantasy VII universe is playable again after an expensive and painstaking restoration effort. As first reported by Wccftech, hacker and game preservation specialist Yuvi brought Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episode -Final Fantasy VII- back to life. That mouthful of a title belonged to a...
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IGN published an extensive gameplay video for Total War: Warhammer 40,000, currently in development by Creative Assembly. In the video, developers walk through a full battle between Orks and Astra Militarum forces, showing off several new mechanics that set this entry apart from previous games in the series. The battle...
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Playing through a favorite game together sounds like the perfect bonding activity. In practice, it can turn into quiet torture if the person sitting next to you treats story-driven titles like an obstacle course to be sprinted through. One Red Dead Redemption 2 fan ran into exactly that problem after...
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Smoking near your PC can turn even a top-tier graphics card into something resembling an archaeological find. Knowing that in theory is one thing. Actually seeing a GeForce RTX 4090 heatsink caked in an even layer of yellow-brown gunk that barely counts as dust anymore is something else entirely. The...
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With news about season three of "The Rings of Power" making rounds, people online are pointing out that the only sketch of Sauron ever drawn by Tolkien himself looks a lot less demonic than most fans assume. No black armor looming over Barad-dûr here – just watercolor and a strange...
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Sometimes architecture beats industrial design to the punch by a decade or more. The clearest example shows up when a glass and concrete office tower ends up mirroring the silhouette of a gaming console that won't exist for years. The building in question is Blue Sky Tower, a hotel and...
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There was a time when computer power got measured not by benchmarks, but by the size of blinking red digits on the case. Toggle switches, seven-segment displays, heavy metal buttons labeled Turbo, and the obligatory "Y2K Ready" sticker slapped on the side. One enthusiast decided that vibe shouldn't fade into...
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Robert Bogue, who played agent Steve Haines in Grand Theft Auto 5, recently opened up about his frustration with Rockstar Games. According to the actor, he auditioned for more than 60 roles in Grand Theft Auto 6, but the studio never got back to him once. Bogue made clear he...
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Most people in their late teens are still figuring out what they want to study in college. One teenager skipped that step entirely and jumped straight to teaching, setting a record along the way. For most 18-year-olds, college means attending lectures, meeting classmates, and starting the long road toward a...
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Two shots of the back panel of an ASUS ROG case show cable management taken to its absolute limit. The first photo shows the starting point – cables are already bundled, but the harnesses still have long loose ends, giving the whole thing the look of some giant centipede living...
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Game Checklists, a site that works with progress trackers for achievement hunters, dug through data from more than three thousand The Witcher 3 player profiles to figure out which quests get skipped the most. Incomplete playthroughs were removed from the sample to keep things accurate. This audience specifically aims for...
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Tim Cain, one of the creators of Fallout and the creator of Arcanum, posted a video on his YouTube channel asking a question he doesn't have an answer to himself. Can a developer with thirty years of reputation make a game completely unlike anything he's made before? The idea came...
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Roy Kim, a student at Whitford Middle School in Beaverton, Oregon, made it into the top ten finalists of the 3M Young Scientist Challenge with a device that pulls moisture from the air and turns it into drinking and irrigation water. The invention targets farmers in dry regions where traditional...
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Let's be honest, high-end DDR5 memory or a new graphics card for your dream PC build probably isn't in the budget right now. Instead, major component makers prefer selling updated versions of already outdated motherboards, processors, and memory. This approach pretty much guarantees a real PC upgrade won't happen anytime...
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The eternal question of the Fallout universe sounds noble on paper – which side would you fight for if you actually landed in the post-nuclear wasteland? Strip away the idealism, though, and think it through practically, and the choice comes down to a much simpler formula. Who would actually take...
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Warner Bros. has secured approval from the local council to expand the school facility at Leavesden Studios, where kids working on HBO Harry Potter series get their education. The site currently teaches around 150 pupils a day, though that number jumps to 600 on days with big crowd scenes. The...
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