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Canadian filmmaker James Cameron was catapulted to fame after directing and writing 1984’s The Terminator, a science fiction horror movie in which a cyborg is sent back in time by an AI defense network, Skynet, in order to eliminate the only threat it faces. In this case that means assassinating the mother of John Connor, the man who will one day lead the human resistance.

The Terminator is one of the all-time great blockbusters, and much of that is down to how it evokes the terror of being pursued by a machine with a machine’s purpose. “It can’t be bargained with,” Kyle Reese explains to Sarah Connor after the first encounter. “It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear.” The Terminator is a manifestation of Skynet itself, an AI designed to ensure huma…

The Helldivers 2 community has demonstrated a ravenous appetite for new stuff. Guns, stratagems, suits, helmets, boosters—Arrowhead has kept the update hose spraying these last two months, but that hasn’t stopped players from looking deep within the code to find stuff yet to come. Through datamining, players have discovered unreleased vehicles, guns, and armor pieces that are likely destined for a future warbond or galactic war event.

But not all of them. One Arrowhead dev would like to remind players that just because datamined content is there, doesn’t mean it’ll ever see the light of day.

“I don’t look at datamined stuff, and I would avoid falling in love with it,” replied Arrowhead dev Evil-Bosse to a fan on the Helldivers 2 Discord server. “Some are old l…

Here’s one for those of us interested in the early days of home computing. UK based Retro Games is set to release the Atari 400 Mini, a modern take on the Atari 400 home computer, complete with a recreation of the classic Atari CX-40 joystick. And what a thing of beauty it is.

The system is a miniaturized version of the classic 8-bit Atari 400. It was released in 1979 and in many ways, was the first gaming PC. It had dedicated graphics and sound co-processors, upgradeable memory, plug-and-play peripherals and a membrane keyboard. It was regarded as being ahead of its time, but strong competition from Apple, Commodore and Tandy hampered its adoption. Additionally, its mostly closed software ecosystem led to a lack of development by third-party programmers. As a result, Atari’s 8-bi…

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, which means MSI must really like Nvidia’s Founders Edition design. It’s taken the core concept of Nvidia’s RTX 30- and 40-series FE cards, the push/pull fan concept, and reimagined it with its own RTX 4080 Super 16G Expert.

MSI tells me it liked how Nvidia’s Founders cards efficiently shift air from one side of a chassis, over the GPU, and out the other. This has been Nvidia’s approach ever since the RTX 30-series, and though it’s massively engorged the design with the 40-series, it’s proven a popular pick.

Though MSI is borrowing the FE’s core concept, it’s offering a completely different look. Nvidia’s opted for that sleek stealth black design for its new Super cards that seemed to be all anyone could talk about at CES,…

Earlier this week, police in Spain arrested 19-year-old José Luis Huertas, one of the country’s most prolific hackers, after a nearly two-year investigation. One of the ways police say they were able to track him down was that he lived a “life of luxury inappropriate for someone his age and without work activity.”

Bleeping Computer reports that the hacker, known as “Alcasec,” was responsible for several cyberattacks in Spain, such as breaching government networks, stealing the data of 575,000 taxpayers, and creating a search engine called “Udyat” to sell the data to other hackers. 

Spanish police say they were able to track Huertas with the help of the National Cryptological Center to link him to transactions despite his use of cryptocurrency mixing services to h…

April Fools’ is a weird day for anyone who covers PC gaming hardware. We get slammed with press releases and trailers for joke products and games. The strangest thing is that sometimes I’ll see a joke product and think, “Damnit, I’d actually buy that.” Well, Corsair decided to send over its April Fools joke to me, and I’m a little relieved that no one actually sells these things.

Corsair calls the FT 100 Keycaps ‘elite tactile distractors,’ which will replace your more useless keys (looking at you, SCRLK) with something more practical like a full-sized fidget spinner, a knob, or a dial. 

Inside the package are five fidget-friendly keycaps, which include a fidget spinner, a small dial, an on/off switch, a trackball, and a very clicky button. So, of course, I wouldn’t be …