Games, tech & business
What I'm playing, what companies are doing and what I make of it.
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Jagged Alliance 3 review: Mercenaries, mayhem and too much admin
GamesA personality-packed tactical RPG with satisfying combat, memorable mercenaries and plenty of choice, dragged down by late-game admin and busywork.
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The AI apocalypse narrative arrived exactly when the hype needed it
Tech & businessAI extinction panic arrived right after Astra and Fable 5.1 failed to change much. Convenient timing for frontier labs now calling for a slowdown.
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Sony finally got Kojima back to espionage, then cancelled it while its first-party strategy falls apart
Tech & businessSony cancelled Kojima鈥檚 Physint, rebooted Horizon鈥檚 live-service project and poured hundreds of millions into Wolverine. What exactly is the strategy?
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Meta's very bad 2026 (so far)
Tech & businessMeta is burning through 2026 with a $17bn child-addiction settlement, privacy backlash, dead metaverse dreams and an absurd $145bn AI bill.
