Author: Trendici
Warframe developer Digital Extremes is hard at work making its first game in nearly a decade, Soulframe, alongside the community in its early access “Preludes” form. To write the Soulframe cover story in the May issue of Game Informer, I traveled to Digital Extremes in Ontario, Canada, to learn more about the game, and it’s there that I learned this fantasy MMO is a response to the cynicism of the world. “To appeal to the sort of aesthetic or emotional reason for why we would make [Soulframe] is kind of a response to the cynicism of the world we are finding ourselves…
Today I’d love to ask a nosy question: if you’re a parent (or spend a lot of time with kids), what random but necessary objects do you always carry? My friend Kayla swears by this magical stain remover, and I keep a pouch of sanitizing wipes in every tote. Below, 10 more moms share the items they forever have on hand… “My child is part fruit bat, so I carry two or three satsuma mandarins in my purse — one is never enough. The ‘activity’ of her methodically peeling them also gives me a few minutes of silence, perfect for…
UK-based Rockstar Games, publisher of the long-running Grand Theft Auto (GTA) series, has fallen victim to another cyber attack orchestrated by the ShinyHunters operation, which is now threatening to release a trove of data on 14 April 2026 after its extortion demands were rebuffed. According to information obtained from ShinyHunters’ dark web leak site, the gang exploited artificial intelligence (AI) cloud analytics tool Anodot to access Rockstar’s Snowflake data warehouse using stolen authentication tokens, thus appearing to Snowflake and Rockstar as if they were a genuine internal user. Anodot had experienced a series of issues earlier this month that…
Learn how to make your .NET MAUI app a little more engaging with interactive animations. We’ll see how to animate a heart for a like action.One of the most rewarding aspects of software development is being able to replicate interfaces and behaviors from applications we use every day. Seeing a familiar interaction come to life in our own product—while respecting its essence and behavior—is undoubtedly very satisfying.In this article, we’ll explore some of the basic animations available in .NET MAUI and how we can combine them to recreate one of Instagram’s most recognizable interactions: the like animation when tapping the…
McLaren has announced its new design boss: Kemal Curic, who formerly led design for Ford Performance Vehicles. Curic joins the British supercar maker to replace Tobias Sühlmann, who left for Porsche earlier this year after a three-year stint as chief design officer. Curic had been at Ford since 2004, working first as an interior designer and going on to play a significant role in the design of the Mk3 Focus, before leading the styling of the S550-generation Mustang. More recently, the Bosnian-German has been based in the US, heading up design for Ford’s luxury brand Lincoln. Stationed in Woking as of this month,…
Developer 4A Games, publisher Deep Silver, and Xbox have announced Metro 2039, the fourth mainline entry within the Metro video game universe. We don’t have any details about the game yet, but a full reveal is scheduled for Thursday, April 16.An Xbox Wire post accompanies a countdown video for the reveal stream. The post reads that the presentation will begin at 10 a.m. Pacific/1 p.m. Eastern. Metro 2039 follows Metro 2033 (2010), Metro: Last Night (2013), and Metro: Exodus (2019), which are post-apocalyptic first-person shooters adapted from the Metro series of novels by Dmitry Glukhovsky. The most recent game is…
Image: BMW Apple is preparing to bring its Car Key feature to Lexus vehicles, according to new findings uncovered in backend code. Reports from MacRumors reveal that references to Lexus have been added to Apple’s Car Key infrastructure, often a strong signal that support is in development. This mirrors earlier discoveries involving Toyota, where similar code hints surfaced before Car Key support officially launched for the 2026 RAV4. At this stage, Apple and Lexus have not confirmed a release date, leaving the rollout timeline unclear. Evidence suggests the feature will debut with the upcoming 2026 Lexus ES. According to a…
Aaron Saran is worried about his family business. His freight distribution company PNL, which has been based in Southall in west London for 30 years, had to move last year after a developer bought the industrial site it operated from to build a datacentre. PNL’s new premises are smaller and lack a warehouse. Saran found it hard to find a suitable space with reasonable rent and is concerned he will have to move out of Southall and away from clients. “One side of the business is already gone,” he said. “We don’t know how to grow.” Neighbouring businesses at…
As in the UK, proposed datacentre construction in the US is undergoing a geographical shift. There, the datacentre pipeline is shifting towards the centre of the country, with Texas and other midwestern states being the main beneficiaries. That’s due to a combination of available power and maturing technologies that can mitigate water use, especially in potentially water-constricted states such as Texas. That’s according to US datacentre analyst Synergy, which looked at the current US datacentre footprint and future plans of the world’s major cloud and datacentre operators. These hyperscalers and large datacentre operators had 1,360 operational sites at the…
The AI debate right now centres almost entirely on models – which LLM is smarter, whether they’ll be commoditised, whether OpenAI or Anthropic or Google wins the arms race. These are real questions. But they’re not the most important ones. The most important question is what sits between the model and the outcome. And right now, that layer barely exists. Call it the context engine. Here’s the problem with a genius in a room. Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have both used some version of this analogy – imagine having a hundred brilliant minds working on your hardest problems.…