First reported by Ars Technica, the “big cheese” of online search appears to have really curdled things, and in the heart of America’s dairyland, no less. An ad for Google’s Gemini AI that played in Wisconsin during the Super Bowl was first shown online last week with a “hallucination”—that is to say, a bald-faced lie—visible during a demonstration of the “writing aid.” The ad was quietly edited to remove the hallucination before it went live during the big game.

Apparently everybody just soft-launches their Super Bowl ads on YouTube a week in advance now, and that goes for Google’s gaggle of 50 spots showcasing how Gemini could help small business owners, with a unique 30-second showcase for each state of the Union. In Wisconsin, the ad focused on a cheesemonger writing online store copy for his assorted victuals.

Wisconsin – Wisconsin Cheese Mart: Gemini in Google Docs – YouTube

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Last year we had a murder mystery expansion for Magic: The Gathering, followed by a Wild West one. As the cynics put it, they were “Magic in detective hats” and “Magic in cowboy hats”. Now, with the Aetherdrift set basically being themed around Speed Racer and Twisted Metal, the cynics say this is “Magic in a racing helmet,” when what the people really want (for “the people” read “cranky Redditbros”) is more trad fantasy.

This rings false to me. For starters, we just had Foundations, a set that went back to the game’s original inspirations and in some cases the original cards, a set with plenty of dragons and angels and swords being turned into ploughshares. If it’s trad fantasy you’re after, you’ll eat well at the Foundations table. Aetherdrift is for those who crave variety, who don’t want to eat the same high fantasy meal every night of the week.

Abiotic Factor – Dark Energy Trailer – YouTube

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Abiotic Factor’s Dark Energy update is so vast and comprehensive it opened a rift right into The PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted, where developer Deep Field Games revealed the new faction, new gizmos, and enormous new area coming to the Half-Life inspired survival game. Indeed, it was large enough that the studio delayed the update out of 2024, and only now has Dark Energy formally arrived into the GATE Cascade Research Facility.

In a lengthy Steam update, Deep Field Games further detailed the many strange corners of the Dark Energy update. For starters, it adds a huge new area called ‘Power Services’, which includes another area known as The Reactors. Deep Field Games refuses to divulge much information about the biome, as it likes to “Let the Facility speak for itself”, but I can tell you it’s filled with bioluminescent plant life, a fact I cleverly deduced from some tiny clues in the image below:

Sherlock Holmes, eat your heart out.

They say detective work is primarily about sitting in front of a computer, and if so, have I got the desktop for you. Armed with Nut OS 1.1, the Cashew PC offers speedy net surfing and thorough database searching – all without the bloat of a modern Windows machine, or the sluggishness of a genuine late ‘90s PC. It’s the main tool in your arsenal in The Roottrees are Dead, a game about filling in a massive, tangled family tree.

In the wake of a recent tragedy, which has claimed the lives of the current president of the Roottree Candy Company, his wife and their three daughters, you’ve been hired by a mysterious client to chart the Roottree dynasty in incontestable black and white. That means combing through fictional websites, library books and periodicals for the facts required to pin them down on your big, conspiracy-style cork board.