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Working out exactly what the backpack number means in Once Human might take you a little while. It’s kind of unnerving the first time your rucksack—or Cradle as the game calls it—starts beeping and displaying a steadily climbing number. Usually, a counter like this would represent your proximity to something important, perhaps even a hidden treasure.

In Once Human, however, it’s more like when the radiation sensor on your Pip-Boy in a Fallout game starts going off: big numbers and lots of sound means stop and turn around. If you’re just starting out for the first time, you might want some help changing worlds or some Once Human codes for free stuff, but otherwise, here’s that number on your backpack explained.

So what does the backpack number in Once Human mean?

AMD’s software engineers have been very busy of late, updating its Linux GPU kernel driver, shader compiler, and other code sources to provide support for its next generation of graphics architecture. Now it’s done the same for its RadeonSI OpenGL driver, adding almost 24,000 lines of code for GFX12, aka RDNA 4, to the Mesa open-source graphics library.

The big code merge was spotted by Phoronix and there’s only one reason why engineers would be so busy updating their code base for an architecture that isn’t currently on the market—it will be very soon.

RDNA 3, the current GPU chip design, is internally codenamed as GFX11 by AMD, so anything referring to GFX12 is clearly about its successor. I’m not talking about RDNA 3.5, which is listed as GFX11.5 and will only bring minor changes when it appears in AMD’s Strix Point and Strix Halo laptop APUs. All of the recent code merges are for RDNA 4, although the files themselves don’t tell us much about what we can expect from the forthcoming architecture.

Radeon RX 7000-series GPUs were first introduced in November 2022, with the RX 7900 XTX and XT being the first consumer-level graphics cards to use ch…

The hype for the next Call of Duty is beginning to spin up in earnest thanks to a new teaser site at thetruthlies.com carrying some shakycam-style video clips and an ominous message: “Open your eyes. The truth lies.”

Spotted by Charlie Intel, the site currently carries two videos, each featuring vaguely amateur-looking rabble-rousers out causing trouble: In the first, a group puts huge blindfolds over the faces of the four US presidents carved into Mount Rushmore, which spell out the words “the truth lies”; in the second, posters bearing a similar image, with the same slogan, are being pasted on abandoned shop windows.

The metadata for the site carries a similar, but longer, of those conspiracy-laden words: “You might remember a better time. But it was false. Trust no one. Open your eyes. Find the truth.”

The Cerberus logo that appeared in the teaser for the Xbox Direct showcase that’s happening in June is also prominent in both videos. And while only two videos are currently live, the virtual TV set on the site has six channels—my years of experience in the videogame industry tells me there’s a good chance we could see as many as four more videos added i…

Over the weekend in Helldivers 2, the tireless forces of Super Earth proved that the narrowest of victories can bring the sweetest rewards—particularly when those rewards involve a surprise, galaxy-wide mech giveaway. When a Major Order demanding the liberation of three planets seemed doomed to fail, the Helldivers achieved a last-minute victory so impressive that High Command’s rolling out war robots to everyone who can fill a cockpit.

The Major Order in question enlisted the Helldivers to secure Charbal-VII, Charon Prime, and Choepessa IV during a temporary lapse in Automaton defenses, and they had only 72 hours to do it. As the operation entered its final hours, Helldivers had secured Charbal-VII and Charon Prime, but Choepessa IV remained stubbornly unconquered by liberty and sustained bombardment alike.

But if Helldivers 2 players have demonstrated anything, it’s their penchant for concentrating their efforts and ordinance when the Galactic War effort demands, especially when there’s a big blinking crosshair on their galaxy maps that say “come here and do a thing for extra medals.” Marshaling their forces, the Helldivers clinched the lingering percentage p…