The Covid-19 pandemic put tech in the spotlight as businesses rushed to remotely connect employees to their work when travel bans were imposed across the world. Suppliers of the latest communication technologies had to quickly draw up remote working plans for its customers and was soon practicing what it preached. Ashish Gupta, HCLTech’s European head,…
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It is amazing how the digital world has evolved. Digitisation, says Harmeen Mehta, chief digital innovation officer at BT, informs organisations on what kind of products to build and how they build these products. It has also meant that organisations structure IT in a way that is more agile. She says there is a lot…
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As a decades-long fan of pro wrestling and RPGs, WrestleQuest is my dream premise. A game that distills the best traits of classics like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy VI and injects them with a hefty dose of sports entertainment? Sign me up. However, what begins as a great idea on paper falls apart thanks…
BioWare, the EA-owned studio behind the Mass Effect and Dragon Age franchises, has announced it is laying off 50 employees. It says the studio must “shift towards a more agile and a more focused studio” and is eliminating 50 roles as a result. As for BioWare’s two known in-development games, Dragon Age: Dreadwolf and the…
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The 12th Computer Weekly list of the Most Influential Women in UK Tech is now open for voting, giving readers and opportunity to express who they feel should be given the top spot. Each year, the list of 50 women acts to make role models in the technology sector more visible and accessible in the…
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The first Lords of the Fallen released in 2014, a time when From Software’s Dark Souls series consisted of two games. Bloodborne wasn’t out, and Elden Ring hadn’t yet redefined what the action-RPG genre can be. Lords of the Fallen was among the first Soulslikes to appear on my radar. It didn’t hit for me…
Lords of the Fallen (2023) Preview – An Exciting Transformation Read More »
Each year when Computer Weekly asks for nominations for its list of the most influential women in UK tech, the number of women considered grows. This year, more than 650 women were put forward for the top 50, Rising Stars and Hall of Fame, showing yet more growth from previous years – in 2017 when…
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Some have predicted the imminent demise of spinning disk hard drives (HDDs), but Rainer Kaese, senior manager for business development in storage products at Toshiba Electronics Europe, argues they have many more years life left in them. Core to his argument is that with the volume of data expanding rapidly, HDDs offer cost-effective storage that…
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Double Dragon may be one of the original pillars of the beat ‘em up genre, but that foundation has weakened in modern times. Infrequent sequels of varying quality have tested Jimmy and Billy Lee’s modern relevance, but Double Dragon Gaiden does a solid job of reinventing the pair with a neat tag team mechanic. Though…
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This year has seen a remarkable explosion of interest in generative AI. Go back just six months, and most people had never heard of it. Now, it seems as though everyone – from tech professionals to students – is using it and experimenting, in particular, with the “poster child” ChatGPT. This has also generated increasing…
