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Elon Musk: How the world's richest man made his billions – and became a political powerhouse

The world's richest man is getting involved in everyone's politics. How did he get here?

Evening Standard

ChatGPT is getting powerful new custom personalities – and they could change how you use the AI chatbot

Powerful new customization features are coming to ChatGPT.

TechRadar

Goal Oriented: How do developers invent their own sports – even when they're not too fond of the real thing?

Feature | "What I've realised is that any turn-based strategy game, like a Fire Emblem or XCOM, those are basically sports games"

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Elon Musk’s Grok can now analyze images and it does a pretty good job, until you reach your usage limit

Grok can now analyze images, and it does a pretty decent job of it.

TechRadar

Elon Musk Named Innovation Newsmaker of the Year 2024: How His Vision Reshapes the World

Epoch Times named Elon Musk Innovation Newsmaker of 2024, acknowledging his leadership in SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and renewable energy.

International Business Times UK

The mother of all XCOM 2 mods just got its first update in a year, with 9445 words of patch notes proving it worthy of the Long War name

Long War of the Chosen 1.2 is now live on Steam with "a ton of new content and tweaks."

PC Gamer

2K removes its unpopular launcher from Steam and Epic, just months after freeing Civ 6 from its grasp

You're now free to boot up XCOM 2, BioShock, and more with less faff

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Bluesky is raking in the refugees of Elon Musk's X

Since the US election, hundreds of thousands of people have joined Bluesky in a bid to leave Twitter behind for good.

ChatGPT just got easier to find when you’re searching for something

OpenAI has just bought the Chat.com domain, making it easier to access ChatGPT.

TechRadar

Michigan State basketball freshman forward set to redshirt

A notable Michigan State freshman will redshirt this season

USA Today Sports Media Group

Exploring the 'twisted road' of Irrational's doomed XCOM game—from fighting aliens 'the size of entire city blocks' to a multiplayer mode where you could be the aliens

Inside the many promising, abortive concepts the BioShock developer came up with.

PC Gamer

One of my favorite series is super cheap on Steam right now: $31 gets you 2 Metroidvanias, 2 XCOM-like strategy games, a city builder, and a clever deckbuilding RPG

SteamWorld games simply do not miss

GamesRadar

OpenAI’s Advanced Voice mode is unavailable in the EU, and now we might know why

The new ChatGPT Advanced Voice mode is rolling out this week, but not in the EU, and we've got a good idea why.

TechRadar

Elon Musk: from tech mogul to political provocateur — how did he become Trump's biggest supporter?

The X/Twitter owner has become notorious for peddling harmful misinformation on social media — now he’s offering Trump voters the chance to win $1m a day. Emma Loffhagen charts Musk’s journey from tech bro to disinformer-in-chief

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Tactical Breach Wizards puts the magic into military tactics games

Assemble a crew of navy seers and necro medics to take down a dictatorship in a spellbinding new game inspired by XCOM, but without the punishment

GamesRadar

SteamWorld Heist 2 plays like a perfect follow-up to a great XCOM-style tactics game, and it's borrowing from Final Fantasy to add even more depth

Summer Preview | The 9-year wait for this sequel looks to be paying off in a big way

The Guardian - UK

Could big tech eventually face its USSR moment and collapse completely?

The end of the all-powerful social networks seems inconceivable, but the disintegration of the Soviet giant once did too

GamesRadar

Former XCOM boss Jake Solomon says he doesn't play XCOM-likes, but "Into the Breach is incredible" and he's honored to have inspired it: "I'll put that on my resume"

Into the Breach is the only game like XCOM Solomon has played

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Evening Standard

Twitter completes rebrand to X.com by changing its website address

You can still visit the site by typing in the original address... for the time being

International Business Times

Musk Confirms Twitter Has Become X.com

The social network formerly known as Twitter has fully migrated over to X.com, owner Elon Musk said on Friday.

PC Gamer

I love that Jake Solomon is following his life sim passions, but just give me a minute to mourn XCOM

The turn-based strategy genre is more alive than ever, but I've lost hope we'll ever get another great sequel to the series that shaped it.

GamesRadar

Save the world from supervillains in Capes, an XCOM-style superhero tactics game, coming to consoles and PC on May 29

Capes is an turn-based tactics game about saving the world from supervillains

GamesRadar

How the systems in Marvel's Midnight Suns and XCOM 2 influenced Jake Solomon's next-gen life sim

Interview | "There's no hit point bars, there's no damage, but there's still ways to make it meaningful"

PC Gamer

Superheroes and XCOM collide in this brilliantly tense and tactical turn-based strategy game

Capes' unique characters, tricky teamwork, and punchy mission design make it a really exciting addition to the genre.

PC Gamer

XCOM's greatest DLC was almost a Battletech-style mech expansion before the game's camera scuppered it all: 'Our camera angle is not meant for 30 foot mechs, apparently'

But what we got was one of my favourite expansions ever, so no harm done.

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