Gaming
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Does Razer Know It Posted A Racist Meme? [Updated]
There’s being into video gaming and there’s identifying as a hardcore gamer. Both are fine! But the latter group has developed a well-earned reputation for being rife with bigoted jerks, from the whole mess over Gamergate to more recent instances like PewDiePie’s repeated instances of racism. It’s also not a coincidence that hardware manufacturers have…
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Who Wants A SNES Classic When You Can Have This Sexy See-Through One Instead?
OK, so the SNES Classic was neat. Cute, even. But if you want your retro console collection to be awesome, there’s nothing quite like Rose Colored Gaming’s upcoming transparent Super Nintendo, otherwise known as the “SNES Re-imagined”.
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A Mod For Civilization Makes Rogue AI More Dangerous Than Gandhi’s Nukes
The University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk does serious research on preventing the end of the world. For its latest project, the Centre wanted to highlight the risk that unrestrained artificial intelligence poses to civilisation. To do that, it’s released a free mod that turns the video game Civilization V into…
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Kodi Lands On The Xbox One, Making It The Ultimate Set-Top Box
There are two things everyone should look for in a good set top box: ease of use and versatility. A set top box is terrible if the menus are a horror to navigate and you can’t just plunk down after dinner and watch a movie. But it’s also terrible if it can’t actually play the…