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Role-playing adventure and superhero comedy among big winners on a varied night in LondonWith 12 nominations, acclaimed role-playing adventure Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was expected to be the runaway success at the 2026 Bafta games awards, held in London on Friday evening.And while it couldn’t quite match its nine wins at the Game Awards back […]
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The handsome new book Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One, by the tech industry legend Stewart Brand, promises to be the first in a series offering “a comprehensive overview of the civilizational importance of maintenance.” One of Brand’s several biographers described him as a mainstay of both counterculture and cyberculture, and with Maintenance, Brand wants us
PC, Xbox; Sad Cat StudiosThis pulpy sci-fi thriller is a beautiful, if deferential, homage to the genre greats, with a poignant real-world echoFor all of cyberpunk’s cautionary tales of shady corporations and transhumanist folly, it is the genre’s arresting imagery that looms largest in the pop culture imagination. Petroleum flares light up the perpetually rainy
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Footage of As Deep As the Grave screened in the US, featuring an authorised visual deepfake of the actor who died in 2025A trailer has been released for the first film to star an authorised generative AI version of a major Hollywood actor.Val Kilmer was cast in western As Deep As the Grave before his
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PlayStation 5 (version tested), Xbox, PC, Switch 2; CapcomEngineer Hugh is sent from Earth to investigate a malfunctioning research station and meets a young android who helps him fend off murderous mechsWhen Pragmata was announced alongside the PlayStation 5 in 2020, its shiny trailer promised slick sci-fi action in outer space. While it certainly delivers
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From people marrying digital companions to CEOs excited about how people whose jobs are replaced can ‘adapt’, this is terrifying watching. But Perry is the perfect hostThere is a fun game you can play while watching Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future, the three-part documentary presented by the artist on the subject of artificial intelligence,
Regulator says tool, which creates reports for humans to review, has helped classify entire UK catalogue of HBO MaxTV shows including Game of Thrones and Euphoria have received age ratings for the first time in the UK, after the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) deployed an AI tool to help assess content.The BBFC has
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‘Unc’ is meant to disparage older players who favour slow-paced shooters and epic narrative games, but the industry should make games for all generations• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereWhile researching women’s experiences in multiplayer video games recently, I came across this thread on the subreddit about Bungie’s latest live
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In a post-apocalyptic landscape of cutthroat scavengers, surprisingly peaceful players are opting to team up and open up – a phenomenon that’s intriguing game developers and psychologists alikeThe video game Arc Raiders is set in a lethal imagining of an apocalyptic future for humanity. Survivors have been forced to live deep underground in colonies while
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You’ve probably heard some version of this idea before: that many of us have an “inner Neanderthal.” That is to say, around 45,000 years ago, when Homo sapiens first arrived in Europe, they met members of a cousin species—the broad-browed, heavier-set Neanderthals—and, well, one thing led to another, which is why some people now carry
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