Wonder also introduces badges, which give players different abilities like invisibility or revival when equipped; some are meant to appeal to more advanced players. During development, the team considered giving players the power to use two or three at a time, or even to change badges mid-level, but ultimately nixed…
In early 2020, at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Ash Gutierrez was 15 and living at home in the tiny North Carolina town of Hendersonville and really into the video game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. At home, he heard his parents’ pop and rock standards. His mom loved ABBA. His…
Greeks, to put it mildly, love food. The idea of walking into my Greek grandmother’s home and saying, “I’m not hungry,” makes me laugh to this day. She would never allow visitors, friends, and especially family to go without a bite of something special — even if she wasn’t expecting you.…
For bookworms, reading a headline like “School District Uses ChatGPT to Help Remove Library Books” can be blood boiling. As Vulture put it earlier this week, it creates the sense that the artificial intelligence tool is once again “[taking] out its No. 1 enemy: original work.” And it is. Using…