Arise Dark Lord is an action-RTS hybrid styled like a Lord of the Rings map where you raise an army of the undead to kill all humans

Naughty, naughty!

A fantasy map showing a dark lord character surrounded by minions stood next to an evil-looking tower in Arise Dark Lord.
Image credit: Introversion Software

What do we want? The ability to be evil in video games! How do we want it? Designed in a way that's mechanically enriching! That's what I'm hoping Arise Dark Lord will be, anyway, a Frankensteinian mish mash of action, real-time strategy, tower defence and base building where you are an evil overlord who rules over a nefarious army and wants to kill all humans.

30 Years Later, Quake Gets a Major Update With Loads of New Content

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Published Aug 6, 2026, 5:55 PM EDT

Quake is still giving players new reasons to check the game out 30 years after launch

30 years later, Quake gets a major update with loads of new content

Shooting a gun at an enemy in Quake: Dawn of the Machine Image: Bethesda Softworks

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New quantum microscopy trick quadruples microscope resolution

New quantum microscopy trick quadruples microscope resolution
Credit: California Institute of Technology

Three years after a team of Caltech scientists showed that pairs of entangled photons could double the resolution of a light microscope, the same lab has figured out a way to double down on that improvement. They have now achieved a fourfold resolution boost compared to a classical microscope, using a new optical design that sends one of the entangled photons through the microscope's optics three times rather than just once.