Author: Cal Jeffrey

The days of yore: A quarter century ago, Dark Souls creator FromSoftware released a toolkit with King’s Field so fans could try their hand at modding and level making. It’s hard to believe those tools are still around and cranking out modern classics that will take you back to the late 90s. In 2023, a little-known indie developer released Lunacid – a retro dungeon crawler that paid homage to FromSoftware games, King’s Field and Shadow Tower – the progenitors of the Elden Ring series. The studio, Kira LLC, just posted a new Steam page confirming it is ready to release…

The answer is 42: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy introduced the world to the Babel fish – a tiny, yellow creature that could instantly translate any spoken language when inserted into the ear. While Apple’s latest plans may not involve intergalactic hitchhiking, they could bring users one step closer to effortless real-time multilanguage communication. Anonymous insiders told Bloomberg that Apple is developing a new AirPods feature that translates in-person conversations in real-time. The functionality, expected to launch later this year, will be included in an AirPods software update tied to iOS 19, Apple’s next major mobile operating system release.…