Implications of Meltdown and Spectre

The biggest story in the tech world over the last week has been the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities.  So what are they, and how will the fixes for them impact games? This post will focus on the Meltdown attack as the implications of that are more serious and we’ve seen that the patches coming..

The Origins of Mercuna

“When can we have a ship flying through a hole in a rotating asteroid?” – That was one of the first questions that Chris Roberts asked us when we started working on Star Citizen. We had been tasked with creating the dogfighting AI for this record breaking crowdfunded space sim, and as with all of..