Giovanni Colantonio is a video game journalist who has covered the industry for two decades. He was formerly a senior editor at Digital Trends and has contributed to publications like Inverse, Fanbyte, and Hard Drive. His specialty is criticism, as he’s focused on a modern approach to video game reviews that’s focused on the nuances of how interactivity communicates to players. He is currently a member of the New York Video Game Critics Circle.
In many respects, as someone who has played a lot of automation games, Substructure is very familiar. It begins with you landing on the surface of an alien world and using nothing but pluck, the tools on your UI, and the schematics in your tech tree to construct a sprawling factory that claws up resources from the planet and transforms them into materials and components to build ever bigger machines.
Amazon’s personal AI wearable maker, Bee, is announcing its first new products since being acquired by the retail giant last year. The tech company on Thursday introduced the Bee Frontier, the next generation of its device that can be worn on the wrist or pinned to clothes, along with Bee Eclipse, a credit-card-sized device that magnetically attaches to the back of your smartphone.
At nearly three hours in length, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s You Can See Everything is a staggering, unnerving documentary about Silicon Valley and whether you can truly know someone. Its focus is Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, who granted the filmmakers unprecedented access for about a month before her prison stint began in 2023. However, the movie is as much about the question of Holmes’ culpability as it is about cults of personality and cultural mythologies at large — not to mention Fielder’s own oeuvre and TV persona as the creator of shows like The Rehearsal, a prankish work of obsession laced with hidden sincerity.
Punnam Raju Manthena, Cofounder & CEO at Tekskills Inc. Partnering with clients across the globe in their digital transformation journeys.
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If you’re a business leader, your AI sovereignty is your capability to independently build, deploy and regulate your AI using your own infrastructure, data, models and workforce. A nation’s job is to strengthen its digital infrastructure, such as national payment systems, to avoid depending on foreign financial engines. Considering the geopolitics of compute, this may be akin to oil reserves. Soon, chips, GPUs and cloud infrastructure could be the powerful geopolitical assets that decide whether a country is economically dominant and secure, rather than its oil or gold reserves.
Automakers could see a financial tail wind that runs in the billions of dollars after the U.S. lowered fuel economy standards and stopped issuing fines for violations of those rules, according to an auto analyst.
With Avatar: Seven Havens, the world of bending is entering an unfamiliar era. Set amidst the ruins of a civilization reshaped by a mysterious catastrophe, the new series expands the franchise's visual scope while bringing South Asian cultural influences further to the foreground. The result is a fantasy world that feels both distinctly Avatar and unlike anything we've seen before. But if you're worried that Avatar: Seven Havens doesn't resemble the world you fell in love with in Avatar: The Last Airbender or The Legend of Korra, you can rest easy.
If you’ve played Baby Steps or Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, you’ll understand the pure allure of a game that makes you want to clench your jaw so hard your teeth shoot off and ricochet around the room. One developer has taken this genre to its logical conclusion, challenging players to beat it in two hours so they can request their $3.99 back from Steam.
Intel graphics don't get much screen time against the weight of AMD and Nvidia, but say what you want about Arc GPUs, they just keep on improving. This is clear enough from the latest driver, the release notes for which claim some significant performance improvements in certain games.
