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Like many people at companies preoccupied with discovering the next “goose that lays the golden egg”, Half-Life 2 and Portal writer Erik Wolpaw has been “poking around” with generative AI. He and a small team at Valve have been testing out different applications, in what Wolpaw assures us isn’t a “concerted” effort at implementing the soul-regurgitating, workforce-abrading gadgetry in any particular new game. Wolpaw’s current feeling is that generative AI isn’t very good at anything “creative”, like cracking jokes. But he does think Large Language Models could make for entertaining NPC voice reactions in games such as Grand Theft Auto…
Will Wright blazed through the early video game industry like a comet – he co-founded Maxis, created the very first SimCity, The Sims in 2000, and released the ultimate life sim Spore in 2008. Much more quietly, Wright has spent the last decade on an AI-enabled, psychoanalytic thing with huge ambitions and zero budget, but he’s determined to keep it breathing.”Kind of like Frankenstein,” Wright tells Vulture in a new profile. It’s called Proxi: Yesterday’s You Tomorrow, and Wright’s studio Gallium Studios revealed it at Game Developers Conference in 2018, though the idea of it has been nagging at Wright…
The Asus ROG Strix Scope II 96 Wireless has been a long-time favourite mechanical keyboard of mine. That’s because of its highly functional, near-full-size layout, its smooth, lubricated switches, and just the sense that the entire package feels thoughtful and well-put-together. I tried looking for a deal for in in the UK, sadly to no avail, though our US pals will be happy to learn it’s currently $130 from Amazon US in their Spring Sale (that, for some strange reason, is happening over a week after the UK one ended).
Earlier this week, reports emerged that Sony was shutting down Dark Outlaw Games, a first-party studio led by Call of Duty: Black Ops veteran Jason Blundell. Today, Blundell confirmed the news on a Twitch stream hosted by another member of the Dark Outlaw Games team, JCbackfire.”We have to respect confidentiality so we can’t go into every gory detail,” Blundell said during the stream, as highlighted by Kotaku. Neither dev revealed much about the project, but JCbackfire did confirm that it was not a live service game.Despite promises for extensive live service games, Sony seems to have been backing away from…
Following Epic Games’ mass layoffs, a Fortnite producer has said that the devs left behind “cannot even fully understand” the sort of impact the job cuts will have on the game during this year and into the future.
Daredevil: Born Again season 2 episode 1 is now streaming on Disney Plus, and the ending of the season premiere sets up an interesting dynamic between Matt Murdock and one of his arch-enemies, which star Charlie Cox says will lead to big things in the rest of the season.Before we continue, be forewarned we’ll be getting into some Daredevil: Born Again season 2 episode 1 spoilers, so turn back now if you haven’t watched it yet.In the final scene of the first episode of Daredevil: Born Again season 2, Matt Murdock is unexpectedly saved from being executed at the hands…
High-resolution monitors have become a lot cheaper over recent years, in contrast to a most internal component types, which are currently in a race to see who can plunge us into financial destitution the fastest. It wasn’t that long ago that the 4K, 160Hz, 27in panel of the Asus ROG Strix XG27UCG would put it out of reach for anyone who didn’t have access to a sovereign wealth fund, yet here it is, discounted to just £319 / $299. That’s only about half what it would cost to buy a new graphics card capable of actually running 4K games.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone | Official Teaser | HBO Max – YouTube Watch On The first HBO Harry Potter trailer is here, and it’s nothing like the beloved film franchise… and we promise that’s a good thing.In the trailer, which you can watch above, we meet a sad, bullied Harry Potter who gets his hair crudely chopped off by Petunia Dursley… and it looks like, rather than jump right into his adventures at Hogwarts, we’re going to spend a bit more time in his hellish existence in the muggle realm at the hands of his aunt and uncle…
House House were kind enough to keep a video of my hands-on session with Big Walk, filmed by one of the participating PRs. Generally, a full video of a preview event including player audio is a lifesaver for a journalist, struggling to keep notes while pushing buttons. But in this case, I don’t want to watch the Big Walk video, because then I would hear what the other players were saying when I wasn’t there. You see, I fell down a cliff midway through Big Walk, and spent the night floundering about in the ocean. Eventually, a developer armed with…
Nintendo of America has announced Switch 2 exclusives will soon no longer cost the same price between their digital and physical versions.In a March 25 news post, Nintendo explains, “Beginning in May 2026, and starting with preorders for Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, new Nintendo published digital titles exclusive to Nintendo Switch 2 will have an MSRP that is different from physical versions.” It blames this change on “the different costs associated with producing and distributing each format,” though many Nintendo games have had different prices for their physical and digital copies for a while now in places like Japan…