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With a loop of light on the front and great overall value, this Alienware prebuilt gaming PC is an easy way into desktop gaming.

Original story, November 25, 2025: This year has seen more than a dozen studios close up shop – including Metal: Hellsinger studio The Outsiders and startup Fantastic Pixel Castle. Now, there's a possibility that Santa Ragione, the studio behind such critically acclaimed indie darlings as Saturnalia and Mediterranea Inferno, might join them.

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Original story, November 25, 2025: Italian developer Santa Ragione has claimed that it could face closure after Valve said it would not host its upcoming horror title Horses on Steam.

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WhatsApp's new platform policies ban general-purpose AI chatbots like Copilot from using its service.

The Chinese autonomous vehicle company Pony.ai has global ambitions and plans to build a 3,000-strong robotaxi fleet to meet them.

The discovery suggests that a region in Quebec might hold even more lithium than originally suspected.

In the last 12 months, there has been a proliferation of voice detection tools, thanks to overall quality improvement in speech recognition models. Speechify is hitching its wagon to this train and launching its own dictation tool with support for English.

Katsuhiro Harada,executive producer for the Tekken franchise, has said that the fighting game market is larger than ever, but the "big money" being made in tournament streaming isn't reflected in games revenue.

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The Far Cry franchise is officially making the leap to TV.

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Major record labels have been urging Spotify and other music streaming platforms to raise subscription prices, arguing that fees have not kept pace with inflation and remain low when compared to services like Netflix.

Cara Ellison began her career in the games industry as a QA tester on GTA 4, and went on to become a games journalist writing for publications such as Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, and The Guardian. She later moved into narrative design, securing a role as senior narrative designer at Sony Santa Monica, before joining Gravity Well in 2023, a studio formed by Respawn and Infinity Ward veterans Drew McCoy and Jon Shiring. Ellison was chosen as a BAFTA Breakthrough for her work on the VR puzzle adventure Ghost Town by Fireproof Games.

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Mark Choi is a composer and classically trained pianist. He is the founder of Sonaris Ensemble, a quintet of video game musicians, and is the resident composer of Whole Hog Theatre. Choi was chosen as a BAFTA Breakthrough for his work on the soundtrack to Tower Five’s Empire of the Ants; he has also received an Ivor Novello nomination for Best Original Video Game Score for his work on the game.

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Sally Beaumont is an actor, playwright, and games writer, and her voice has featured in titles such as Harold Halibut, The Excavation of Hob's Barrow, Expelled!, and Loco Motive. Beaumont was chosen as a BAFTA Breakthrough for her acting and writing work on the point and click adventure game Old Skies, which was created by Dave Gilbert of Wadjet Eye Games.

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Kyle Banks worked as a software engineer before moving to Edinburgh and working on his debut game, Farewell North, which led to his selection as a BAFTA Breakthrough. The game features a border collie journeying through the northern isles of Scotland, restoring colour to the world.

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Stanley Baxton is a narrative game designer who has worked on more than 20 games as a solo developer, specializing in satirical, horrifying, or queer stories. He previously worked as a game designer at Supermassive Games. Baxton was chosen as a BAFTA Breakthrough for his work on Latex, Leather, Lipstick, Love, Lust, an interactive fiction piece about a trans man going to a kink club.

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The 2025 UK BAFTA Breakthroughs have been revealed, with the games cohort made up of Kyle Banks (director, Farewell North), Stanley Baxton (solo developer, Latex, Leather, Lipstick, Love, Lust), Sally Beaumont (lead voice actor/script consultant, Old Skies), Mark Choi (composer, Empire of the Ants), and Cara Ellison (writer/narrative designer, Ghost Town).

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Play music, audiobooks, and more for your children with one of these WIRED-tested gadgets.

One of the sharpest monitors ever made, the LG UltraFine Evo 6K monitor has more than just extra pixels to offer.

YouTuber “Schlep" built a huge following tracking down alleged child predators on Roblox before being kicked off. The platform is facing multiple lawsuits over child safety.

CD Projekt veteran Konrad Tomaszkiewicz has argued that while AI has a place in development, it should not replace people.

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