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# Research

'We Go and Try to Experience Everything' — Yes, Rockstar Staff Visited Florida Strip Clubs in Real Life as Part of GTA 6 Research

Rockstar Games has revealed the lengths it went to to gain first-hand experience of real-life Florida as part of research for GTA 6.

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Pcgamer ·15 days ago

Konami has a Silent Hill lore bible and no, you can't see it

"We do technically have an internal bible for what constitutes Silent Hill, but we try not to distribute that to our development teams too much because I think it's more important that they organically can do their own…

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Eurogamer ·last mo.

GTA 6 devs Rockstar set up a special team in Miami to meet with "ex-criminals, law enforcement, club promoters, gun dealers and anyone notorious or influential"

Rockstar went to some great lengths for its Grand Theft Auto 6 research, it seems, as the studio has said it sent multiple teams of developers to Miami as well as embedding a team there longer-term for research.

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Tom's Hardware ·last mo.

Undersea cable to Antarctica through Drake Passage is viable, researchers find — 1,600km route to Chile could spell an end to research data leaving in 'suitcases full of hard drives'

A fiber-optic cable strung across the Drake Passage could pull Antarctica's research bases off satellite links and hard-drive shipments and onto the global network after Chile's finalized feasibility study concluded…

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Tom's Hardware ·last mo.

Fears grow that age verification coming to VPNs as a British research firm labels them a 'loophole' — one app developer saw downloads surge by 1,800% in just the first month after the UK's Online Safety Act took effect

The European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) published a briefing paper this week describing VPN use as "a loophole in the legislation that needs closing," as governments across Europe and the U. S.

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Tom's Hardware ·last mo.

Micron commits $10 billion to new US-based Research Labs — Boise hub to target post-DRAM and NAND technologies and packaging

Micron on Thursday announced a plan to establish the Micron Research Lab, which will explore memory, computing, packaging, and semiconductor manufacturing technologies that could be used commercially more than a decade…

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Tom's Hardware ·2 mo. ago

Prusa Research XL, Core One, and Core One L all to receive second-generation upgrades — all new orders get updated model for 'free'

If you’re feeling sad that you can’t afford a new 3D printer this summer, perhaps you can swing an upgrade instead?

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Tom's Hardware ·2 mo. ago

Delaware’s Printed Solid rebrands to Prusa USA

Printed Solid, the Delaware-based filament manufacturer acquired by Czech Prusa Research in 2022, is now known as Prusa USA, Inc.