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The latest things I have written
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Heatwaves, droughts, dying crops, wildfires. Big Tech: more AI data centres, please
Record heatwaves, droughts and wildfires are already hammering Europe while Big Tech keeps demanding vastly more power, water and infrastructure for AI data centres.
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Colony Ship: consequence without curiosity
Iron Tower’s Colony Ship offers plenty of systems and branching choices, but little curiosity, weak exploration and a space setting that barely matters.
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Amazon Games couldn't even hand in somebody else's MMO homework
Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty are being handed back as Amazon Games dismantles an MMO business built on huge spending and poor decisions.
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Everybody gets an autonomous hacking AI! The trillion-dollar PR arms race
Everybody gets an autonomous hacking AI as OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta turn cyber incidents, bad containment and model hype into another PR arms race.
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Gothic 1 Remake: Eurojank is not a feature
A promising remake full of strong ideas, broken quests, endless backtracking and combat apparently designed around parrying a fucking troll.
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Another decade, another Halo: Combat Evolved
Halo Studios’ £50 Combat Evolved remake launches to Mixed Steam reviews, weak player numbers, bugs, missing multiplayer and yet another reset.
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Sacred 2 Remaster: Nostalgic without the nostalgia
Sacred 2 Remaster is clumsy, bloated and badly modernised, yet its strange late-2000s offline-MMO charm somehow still survives beneath the jank.
