Pints, fights and a pop-up strip club: My day at the Cheltenham Festival

With the sober clarity of hindsight, perhaps the fact the 08.00 departure from London Paddington to Cheltenham Spa ran clean out of booze by 08.48 represented something of an omen.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs reveal the secret behind how the game was made

During this year’s Game Developers Conference, Sandfall Interactive lifted the curtain on how it was able to create Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 with a small team of programmers. The studio’s secret?
Tom's Guide

Wordle creator is back with a harder, trickier word game called Parseword: here's how to try it

AI I built a library of 'thinking prompts' for Claude — these are the ones I use most AI I tried the '3-prompt rule' with ChatGPT — the results got dramatically better AI ChatGPT-5.4 is OpenAI’s ...
GameSpot

A Petri Dish Full Of Human Brain Cells Just Learned How To Play Doom

In 2024, Elon Musk's Neuralink implant allowed a quadriplegic patient to play RuneScape and Slay the Spire in his brain. But now, scientists are taking things further, training lab-grown brain cells ...
The Escapist

Slay the Spire 2 console commands – how to mod the game and get access to the dev menu

Here’s how to enable the dev console in Slay the Spire 2 and a full list of console commands you can use during a run.

One Person’s Unhinged Crusade To Erase An Obscure PC Game From Existence Has Finally Been Stopped

Investigative action has freed Cookie’s Bustle from harm. You are free to dance now, Cookie. Free to be happy.

This Pixel Art Game Solves 1 of AI Coding’s Most Annoying Problems

While it looks like an adorable 8-bit video game, Pixel Agents is not something you can play. Rather, it transforms the user experience of coding with Anthropic ’s Claude Code agentic AIs by turning ...

Tech Wrap Feb 12: Lava Yuva Star 3, Apple releases iOS 26.3, EvoFox Deck 2

Lava Yuva Star 3 launched in India. Apple iOS 26.3 rolled out. EvoFox Deck 2 multi-device game controller launched. Nothing Playground beta rolled out. Facebook's Meta AI-powered tools ...
ExtremeTech

Microsoft Fixes Windows 11 Bug That Let Attackers Run Remote Code in Notepad

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PC World

Windows Notepad is now complex enough to have a serious security flaw

PCWorld reports that Windows Notepad’s new Markdown support feature has introduced a serious remote code execution vulnerability with a high CVSS score of 8.8/7.7. The security flaw allows malicious ...
TweakTown

Extra features for Windows 11 Notepad go beyond worries about bloat, as new security flaw shows

TL;DR: Windows 11's Notepad app has a security flaw rated as a 'high' severity vulnerability, one that allows for remote code execution. The good news is that it's already been patched by Microsoft, ...
The Conversation

Are video game developers using AI? Players want to know, but the rules are patchy

Thomas Byers receives funding from The Research Training Program Scholarship, supported by the Australian Commonwealth Government and the University of Melbourne. Bjorn Nansen receives funding from ...