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Doom soundtrack composer Bobby Prince dies aged 81
Robert Prince III – best known as Bobby Prince, the man behind the iconic score of the original Doom game – has died aged 81. Read more
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Control Resonant Hands-On: Giving One Of The Most Consistently Surprising Developers The Benefit Of The Doubt
Remedy Entertainment refines its creepypasta world-building in a more conventional action-RPG
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Opinion: 30 Years On, I've Finally Come Around On The N64 Pad
C, it's good.The N64 turns 30 on 23rd June 2026. To celebrate, we'll be running a series of articles celebrating the 64-bit machine and its industry-shaping software over the next week or so.Read the full article on nintendolife.com
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Halo: Campaign Evolved PS5 players will require an Xbox account and gamertag to play – as well as PS Plus to play split-screen co-op
UPDATE 21/06/26: Halo Studios has now updated its original Halo Waypoint story to confirm that "a PlayStation Plus account is NOT required for local splitscreen co-op". Read more
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The creator of Ultima is reportedly reclaiming the series' rights back from EA, and it could happen as soon as next year
"Every decade or so, I tried to work with EA on a revival of Ultima."
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Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash
The 69-year-old Ubisoft co-founder is one of two reported victims, alongside the operator and owner of the aircraft
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After losing over 30 pounds exercising in VR for six months, I can say it's worth the effort (and sweaty faceplates)
Here's to another six!
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Intel and AMD's new ACE CPU extensions bring an efficient AI-oriented instruction set to x86 — a new design makes matrix multiplication more power- and density-efficient
ACE CPU extensions bring an efficient AI-oriented instruction set to x86 — new design makes matrix multiplication more power- and density-efficient
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Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene "moves forward with a smaller team", as Prologue: Go Wayback! studio struggles to find funding
Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene, the creator of PUBG and Prologue: Go Wayback!, has publicly thanked the team at PlayerUnknown Productions for its "professionalism" as it "move[s] forward with a smaller team" following issues securing additional funding. Read more
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Unlucky PC builder sent RTX 5070 from Amazon, gets DVD rewriter and a busted logic board from an early 2000's Kenwood AV receiver instead — $700 GPU turns out to be e-waste thanks to return scam
Another person has fallen victim to Amazon's generous return policy, as they received a disc drive, a mousepad, and an AV receiver instead of the $700 RTX 5070 they ordered.
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Microsoft researcher builds goat-powered neural network in Age of Empires 2 to show why we should 'stop assuming that LLMs behave like humans just because they were trained with natural language'
"I have this tendency to dial up things to 11 when I really think I need to make a point."
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Fruit Dash: A Solstice Platformer with Binary Code Gates
This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam What I Built I built Fruit Dash, a...
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Guide: These 5+ PS5 Games Are Coming Out Next Week (22nd-28th June)
Dead or Alive! Deer & Boy! A few others!Next week could end up being the slowest week of the year on the PS Store, but you have a backlog to get through, don't you?I suppose the biggest game next week is Dead or Alive 6: Last Round, which is coming to the PS5 after launching on the PS4 a few years a
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Researcher turns wi-fi smart lightbulb into a Banned Book Library — open source project makes digital books available via a server and open Wi-Fi access point hacked into an ESP32-powered bulb
A security researcher has added another dimension to smart lightbulbs by stealthily adding what they call a 'cyberpunk digital dead drop' full of 'banned books.'
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China unveils man-portable anti-drone laser that can burn through a drone 1,600 feet away in four seconds — backpack-sized 2-kilowatt weapon uses AI for targeting, weighs 55 pounds, and can be carried by a single soldier
Chinese defense supplier Harbin Xinguang Optic-Electronics Technology demo’d two man-portable anti-drone lasers at a Beijing arms expo this week.
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Review: The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales (PS5) - A Safe But Delightful Take on Classic Action RPGs
Time's on your side.The worst thing about The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is its name, so we're off to a pretty positive start.Square Enix's latest HD-2D jaunt is an action RPG, with its overall structure resembling classic The Legend of Zelda and Mana games.Read the full article on p
Yandex Open-Sources YaFF: A Zero-Copy Wire Format for Protobuf With Near-Struct Read Speed
In this article we look at YaFF, Yandex's open-source zero-copy wire format for the Protobuf ecosystem. We keep the .proto file as the single source of truth, changing only how data sits in memory. We walk through its four layouts — Fixed, Flat, Sparse, and Dynamic — and the benchmark where Flat Lay
How to Build a Forecasting Pipeline with TimeCopilot Using Foundation Models and Automated Anomaly Detection
We build an end-to-end forecasting workflow with TimeCopilot on a panel of real airline passenger data and a synthetic seasonal series with injected anomalies. We evaluate statistical, foundation, and optional GPU-based models using rolling cross-validation and multiple error metrics. We generate pr
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Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 638
Sun sheltering.It is far too hot and humid here in the UK right now, so we are closing the blinds and sitting in front of a fan turned up to max as we play video games this weekend. This is what's entertaining us in between ice cream and BBQs.Jamie O'NeillThe 16th June was the 11-year anniversary of
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Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (20th June)
Be there or be Square.After last week's showcase shenanigans, we've welcomed a slightly quieter one here at Nintendo Life.We started the Ocarina of Time remake sleuthing as a new description appeared online, and ran through some of the game's funniest moments that we can't wait to revisit. Switch 1