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Seamus Byrne

Founder and Head of Content at Byteside. Brings two decades of experience covering tech, digital culture, and their impacts on society.

Games

Inside the making of the new Dungeons & Dragon's Magic The Gathering set

We speak to James Wyatt and Meris Mullaley from Wizards of the Coast about the art and science of bringing the Forgotten Realms to Magic.

Inside the making of the new Dungeons & Dragon's Magic The Gathering set
Art & Design

Watch the Forza Horizon 5 audio team capture awesome zoom vroom sounds

Seven minutes of behind the scenes as the Forza Horizon sound crew capture a bunch of cars hooning up and down an old track.

Watch the Forza Horizon 5 audio team capture awesome zoom vroom sounds
Big Ideas

Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin's motley crew lifts off in just hours: here's how to watch

The most phallic rocket yet is scheduled for launch. Here's when and how to watch. Whatever you think of Bezos, Wally Funk is the real deal!

Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin's motley crew lifts off in just hours: here's how to watch
Art & Design

Italian museums now use cameras to see which art you look at most

Visitor's eyeballs will decide how these galleries redesign their layout and which artworks are put on prime display.

Italian museums now use cameras to see which art you look at most
Games

Wild Beyond The Witchlight: Everything we know about the new D&D campaign

All the details from announcements and interviews to share the story hints, races and features we will find in 2021's new D&D campaign book.

Wild Beyond The Witchlight: Everything we know about the new D&D campaign
Dungeons & Dragons

D&D puts dragons where they belong with Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons finally gives dragons the sourcebook they deserve, with the very nature of reality now tied to their heritage.

D&D puts dragons where they belong with Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Media

D&D Live 2021! All the schedule details and how to watch online

This weekend watch comedy greats like Patton Oswalt, Kevin Smith, and Jack Black, wrestlers, actors and more play D&D live online!

D&D Live 2021! All the schedule details and how to watch online
Politics

Lawyers go after Sega's "rigged" skill-based arcade machines

Key Master machines are off to court for being marketed as skill-based when manuals show how their settings really work.

Lawyers go after Sega's "rigged" skill-based arcade machines
Games

Destiny lore nerds, Bungie wants you for its new 'Destiny Historian' role

In a new job listing, Bungie is seeking one lucky lore pedant to catalogue the narrative threads of Destiny and keep them straight in future.

Destiny lore nerds, Bungie wants you for its new 'Destiny Historian' role
Art & Design

Watch almost 200 Georges Méliès classic films for free online

Collected from across a wide range of YouTube sources, here's a playlist of 194 Georges Méliès classics in chronological order.

Watch almost 200 Georges Méliès classic films for free online
Technology

Diving in the world's deepest pool looks like my kind of dystopia

Sit in a waterlogged Bentley 60 metres deep in a mega pool in Dubai? Is this a theme park or social commentary?

Diving in the world's deepest pool looks like my kind of dystopia
Technology

A movie just launched 91,000 NFTs to pro– nope, I'm not doing this...

Digital artists getting paid thanks to NFTs is great. Movies and companies creating NFTs to score some free promotional value suck.

A movie just launched 91,000 NFTs to pro– nope, I'm not doing this...
Computers

Dell takes DSLR inspiration for its 4K UltraSharp Webcam

There's a few 4K webcams under $400 already, but this UltraSharp Webcam puts a big lens on a long barrel for to chase great performance.

Dell takes DSLR inspiration for its 4K UltraSharp Webcam
Big Ideas

Branson, Bezos, and the Kármán line: how everybody wins this month's space race

Billionaires posturing over commercial spaceflight is the ultimate cockfight, but with Virgin below 100km up everyone gets to say 'First!'

Branson, Bezos, and the Kármán line: how everybody wins this month's space race
Culture

Two new Lego sets let you chill with buds like Thor and Seinfeld

New Lego sets are coming with the apartment set from Seinfeld as well as Thor's bachelor pad in New Asgard. The cleverness is in the details.

Two new Lego sets let you chill with buds like Thor and Seinfeld
Games

A Sega R360 dead in an Irish field is one of the saddest things I've ever seen

One of the classic circa 1990 free moving flight sim arcade cabinet, only 200 ever made, was found in lying in a field in Northern Ireland.

A Sega R360 dead in an Irish field is one of the saddest things I've ever seen
Technology

Study shows free divers can drop heart rates as low as 11 beats per minute

New research shows elite free divers incredible control puts them in the same oxygen management league as dolphins, seals and whales.

Study shows free divers can drop heart rates as low as 11 beats per minute
Esports

Valve confirms Bucharest will host Dota 2's The International 10 in October

After Sweden failed to affirm competitors could receive elite athlete visas, Valve had to move fast to find an alternate host for TI10.

Valve confirms Bucharest will host Dota 2's The International 10 in October
Games

D&D arrives in Magic Arena today as the Forgotten Realms set goes live

Drizzt, Tiamat, Mordenkainen and more D&D friends are now live in Magic The Gathering Arena, with the new Mastery season also now underway.

D&D arrives in Magic Arena today as the Forgotten Realms set goes live
Big Ideas

NASA's Martian helicopter just keeps crushing its targets

Now nine flights deep into its extended mission, Ingenuity keeps pushing its limits – and keeps proving it has what it takes.

NASA's Martian helicopter just keeps crushing its targets