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Space News Network is No Man's Sky but you're a roving journalist, blasting bandits while trying to keep your subscribers happy
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Space News Network is No Man's Sky but you're a roving journalist, blasting bandits while trying to keep your subscribers happy

Yet again, friends, I am escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism. They have need of journalists up there, no matter what that dafty Musk might prefer. Or so I understand from Space News Network - a No Man's Sky-esque exploration game in which you play a starpilot reporter, rocketing between strange new worlds in search of the next scoop. You'll brave pirate blockades, descend through the atmosphere and tangle with unidentified fauna, all in the name of such Pulitzer

Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 (2026) review
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Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 (2026) review

The super-portable G16 is, in many ways, better than ever—but the memory crisis has priced it out of top contention.

"Machines that weren't game machines before will become game machines": Take-Two CEO predicts that streaming will help fix the industry's hardware pricing problem
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"Machines that weren't game machines before will become game machines": Take-Two CEO predicts that streaming will help fix the industry's hardware pricing problem

Gaming hardware costs an absolute megaton, right now, but don't you worry, says Strass Zelnick, CEO of Rockstar parent company Take-Two Interactive – we'll soon be playing all our games via streaming services anyway. Speaking during the company's latest investor call, Strauss suggested that the games industry will "be in commercial streaming mode within three years" - that's to say, people will be accustomed to streaming live gameplay from potent central computers over low latency connec

"Ideas like this usually just die": Inside generative AI’s effect on modding, and how host sites struggle to maintain transparency
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"Ideas like this usually just die": Inside generative AI’s effect on modding, and how host sites struggle to maintain transparency

I’ve been scrolling through Nexus Mods near enough every weekday morning for three or four years now. On a good day, I might spot a couple of new mods potentially worth writing news about and a couple, usually Skyrim player homes, I might fancy checking out in my free time. Historically, browsing for mods was largely just a matter of gauging which looked complex or unique enough to be worth investigating further, and making sure nothing about them appeared offensive or otherwise dodgy. Us