Rock Paper Shotgun

"I was chomping at the bit to crack the code": How procedural maps became XCOM 2's biggest ambition, after Firaxis couldn't manage it in Enemy Unknown

The developers of XCOM 2 reveal the challenge of making procedural maps for their turn-based tactical game, including why ...

NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Tested: The Real-World Impact Of Dynamic Multi-Frame Generation

We tested Nvidia DLSS 4.5 and its new Dynamic Multi-Frame Generation. See the real-world FPS benchmarks, latency impact, and 6x mode results on RTX 50 series.
collider

8 Seasons Later, 'The Rookie' Officially Proved That the Series Can't Just Be a Procedural Anymore

Jeffrey is a freelance features writer at Collider. He is an MPA-accredited entertainment journalist and a Tomatometer-approved critic based in the LA area. He graduated from the University of Texas ...
The Guardian

Australia’s generation Alpha faces $185k bill over lifetime without urgent action on climate crisis, report finds

Global heating consistent with current projections would cost average millennial $130,000 and $165,000 for gen Z, according to Deloitte modelling Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates ...
Fast Company

AI is creating the first generation of cognitively outsourced humans

Now we are beginning to outsource something far more consequential: not memory, not route-finding, not scheduling, but thought itself. Or, more precisely, the labor of forming a judgment before ...
Psychology Today

What the Anxious Generation Is Actually Missing

A friend recently told me her teenage daughter had 1,700 notifications from Snapchat. On one day. She'd taken the phone away. Her daughter had a meltdown. A week later, the phone was back. I hear ...