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.
IEEE

DemoCraft: Using In-Context Learning to Improve Code Generation in Large Language Models

Abstract: Producing executable code from natural-language directives via Large Language Models (LLMs) involves obstacles like semantic uncertainty and the requirement for task-focused context ...