Have no fear, dear reader. Yes, I am once standing in for Edwin to battle The Maw and bring forth its tidings of upcoming PC games. But the beast has not eaten our news editor. Not this time. Instead, Edwin's been called away to Krakow where he will be using his creature-wrestling skills to tussle with a dragon. Read more
Category: Gaming
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The Subnautica 2 fish self-defence debate rages on, as the game’s non-violent themes clash with player desire to fend off underwater threats
Subnautica 2, like its predecessors, has a strong theme of pacifism running through it. Rather than killing aggressive fish, the game instead provides tools for players to avoid or distract creatures to save their own hides. Now that the Unknown Worlds’ controversial sequel has launched, however, this dedication to non-violence has proven frustrating to a subset of the community. Read more
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Subnautica 2 mod makes creatures killable, despite its devs' desire to convince players to "use non-violent and more creative solutions"
Subnautica 2 is deliberately designed to nudge you away from seeking violent solutions to your 'oh lordy there's a giant leviathan chasing me' problems, with devs Unknown Worlds having been clear that strong feelings have propelled them down that path. Yet, as they've also acknowledged, not every Sub 2 player will agree: cue a mod that makes creatures killable quickly springing up now the survival game's out in early access.
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All FC 26 90+ Encore Icon Upgrade SBC rewards
We have the 90+ Encore Icon Upgrade SBC available in FC 26, which gives us a guaranteed legend for our Ultimate Team squads. EA Sports has released an SBC for the first time this year that only includes Icons rated 90 or above from older promos.
Let's find out all the available cards before you spend your hard-earned fodder in the SBC.
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Complete list of FC 26 90+ Encore Icon Upgrade SBC rewards
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Future Stars
TOTY
FUT Birthday
Trophy TitansComplete list of FC 26 90+ Encore Icon Upgrade SBC rewards
The rewards include 90-rated and above icons from the following promos.
Time Warp
TOTY
Future Stars
FUT Birthdays
Trophy Titans
Time Warp
Carles Puyol CB 90
Philipp Lahm RB 90
Bobby Moore CB 91
Andrea Pirlo CDM 91
Homare Sawa CM 92
Marco van Basten ST 92
Garrincha RW 93
Future Stars
Pichon ST 90
Shevchenko ST 90
Scholes CM 91
Drogba ST 91
Abily CM 92
Baresi CB 92
Xavi CM 93
Bergkamp ST 93
Bale RW 94
Eusebio ST 94
Maradona CAM 96
Pele CAM 96
TOTY
Seger CM 91
Carlos Alberto RB 92
Wayne Rooney ST 92
Lev Yashin GK 93
Ruud Gullit CAM 93
Alex Morgan ST 93
Lilian Thuram RB 93
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University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt’s AI cheerleading during commencement
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt delivered the commencement address at the University of Arizona on Friday. And, as his speech veered into talk of AI, he was repeatedly drowned out by boos. AI is already a contentious topic, and it's not surprising that those about to enter a ravaged job market feel particularly negative about […]
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As AI supply disruptions grip the market, almost two thirds of PC owners have no plans to upgrade
Parroted as the end-all, be-all of modern living, AI has proved to be more of a nuisance to everyone and, ironically, has hit tech enthusiasts the hardest. Instead of bettering their day-to-day, AI is only helping to surge prices and make them unavailable to the general populace while big-name corporations rake in the surplus and enjoy the shortage.
And that leaves you, the average Joe, unable to go in and buy new components or bring your machine up to snuff since some corporation out there (cough, OpenAI, cough) said "pretty please" to all the RAM manufacturers, and all of them somehow jumped ship and started only selling to them (who weren't actually buying them, just promising that they would, maybe).
Now, according to Tom's Hardware, 60 percent of PC owners have no plans to upgrade over the next two years. That is the result of a survey of 1,500 Tom's Hardware readers done over the last couple of weeks, thus reflecting the current state of PC enthusiasm or lack thereof.
There's a small fortune in this image now. Image via Andrey Matveev/Pexels
What's even more interesting is just how few people are planning to actually kit out their PC with some shiny new tech within