Enlarge / Want Aliens: Colonial Marines to better resemble this ‘shopped image? Just remove one letter! (credit: Gearbox / Sega) History may never be kind to Aliens: Colonial Marines, but the present tense isn’t looking so good for the lawsuit– and complaint-ridden Gearbox game, either. This week brought to our attention one of the weirdest […]
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Did a single typo screw up the AI in ‘Aliens: Colonial Marines’?
In case you need help selecting an old game to spend the weekend with, it might be a good time to revisit 2013’s Aliens: Colonial Marines. In a one-star review written when it was released, Xav de Matos called out the game’s AI as a problem and said: “Enemy encounters feature stunningly moronic xenomorphs that […]
The White House brushes off a major ‘typo’ in its statement on Iran’s nuclear weapons program, blames Obama instead
AP Photo/Evan Vucci The White House brushed off a major “typo” in the statement it issued on Iran’s nuclear weapons program. The White House put out a now-amended statement, which read that Iran “has” a secret nuclear weapons program. Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders later took a jab at the Obama administration for signing the […]
‘Not a typo’: Disbelief as Boston Globe confirms median net worth of black Bostonians is $8
The Boston Globe had to explain there were no typographical errors in its report about Boston’s black community. Readers contacted the paper after it reported the median net worth of African-American households in the Boston area is a paltry $ 8. The Boston Globe’s Spotlight investigation team cited the statistic in its first installment of […]
How a single typo brought the internet to its knees
Chip Somodevilla/Getty This week, an Amazon Web Service (AWS) failure caused a massive outage all over the internet. Now we know why: a typo. The company released a detailed report explaining what happened. An employee entered what they thought was a routine command to remove servers from an S3 subsystem. By mistake, they entered a larger number […]