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First AI-Generated Romance Film Looks Like Crap
12.4.2024
TV maker TCL announced its first original short film—Next Stop Paris—and excitedly confirmed that it was made using AI-generation tools. They didn’t need to tell us that, however, because the shitty, awful trailer makes it very clear that most of the imagery in the film is the hallucination of...
Dragon's Dogma 2 Is Great, The New South Park Game Isn't, And More Of The Week's Gaming Opinions
30.3.2024
Capcom’s new action-RPG Dragon’s Dogma 2 is sparking a fascinating range of reactions from players, and we’ve got a few of our own. We’ve also got thoughts on why the new South Park game, Snow Day, is such a disappointment, more commentary on Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s hotly contested ending,...
Dragon’s Dogma 2’s Latest Update Adds A Highly Requested Feature
29.3.2024
One week after Dragon’s Dogma 2’s March 22 launch, Capcom has released the first update to the game. Update 1.050 adds a handful of features to Capcom’s action RPG including one of the most requested options since launch, the ability to start a new game when save data already exists.Read more
Maniac Takes The Best Part Of GTA And Makes It A Roguelike
28.3.2024
When I was younger, my friends and I would play Grand Theft Auto III differently than how the developers intended. Instead of completing missions and side activities, we would use cheat codes to give ourselves all the guns, a good car, and then save the game in that state. We would then each take...
This Unreleased Capcom Game Lives On In The Caves Of Dragon's Dogma 2
26.3.2024
I remember watching the February 20, 2013, PlayStation 4 announcement live stream, eager to learn what the new console would bring me. It was a lengthy affair and looking back I barely remember what was announced—Except for one title that etched itself onto my mind: a Capcom dungeon crawler called...
Nearly 30 Percent Of The Top 100 Steam Deck Games Aren’t Verified
15.3.2024
Recently, Valve published a list of the top 100 most-played Steam Deck games over the last 12 months. Digging into this much data is fun, and the full list is both a snapshot of recent trends and a reminder that old favorites are some of the most popular options on Valve’s portable PC. Read more
New Steam Hit Mixes Vampire Survivors With Mining And Guns
21.2.2024
Vampire Survivors might not be the first auto-shoot-’em-up ever made, but it has certainly become the blueprint many clones and imitators have followed since its launch in 2021. One game in that mold, Deep Rock Galactic Survival, takes that basic formula and does something different, adding mining...
Hashgraph Association Partners With Saudi Government to Launch Deep Tech Venture Studio
9.2.2024
The Hashgraph Association, a nonprofit organization based in Switzerland, announced on Feb. 7 that it had partnered with Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Investment to launch a deep tech venture studio. The venture studio’s objective is to assist both Saudi and foreign companies develop innovative...
The Most Underrated PlayStation 5 Game Lands On PC Soon
25.1.2024
Sony has revealed a release date for the PC version of Horizon Forbidden West Complete, along with a bunch of top-tech features for computers beefy enough to handle them. Come March 21, the epic action adventure will be available to play with unlocked framerates and DLSS 3 upscaling.Read more
New Starfield Patch Finally Adds Those Graphics Options You Wanted
20.11.2023
After some beta testing, Bethesda has released Starfield’s latest patch for PC and Xbox. This new update adds DLSS support, the ability to eat food you find in the world instantly, some much-needed graphical options, and plenty of bug fixes, too. Read more
This Is What It Looks Like When A Massive Video Game Publisher Messes Up
16.11.2023
This is Lars Wingefors, the CEO of Embracer, a Swedish holding company that owns multiple video game publishers, dozens of studios, and employs over 16,500 people. Or at least it used to. Embracer has been laying off hundreds, canceling projects, and closing studios as it reckons with deals that...
YouTube Now Requires Creators To Label AI Content
14.11.2023
As AI-generated content continues to encroach on everything from advertising to the voice acting profession, YouTube is adding a requirement for users to flag their videos when they include anything made by an AI program. However, looking at the guidelines, it doesn’t seem like the video hosting...
Starfield's Controversial Missing PC Feature Arrives In New Update
8.11.2023
Starfield’s long-promised DLSS update is finally available through a beta test on PC.Read more
Whoa, Alan Wake II’s PC Requirements Aren’t Screwing Around
24.10.2023
Alan Wake II releases on October 27, 2023 on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC via the Epic Games Store. Understandably, video game graphics tech has evolved a bit since the first Alan Wake’s 2010 release on the humble Xbox 360. But if you’re looking to play Remedy Entertainment’s highly anticipated...
AI Is Already Transforming Voices In The Biggest Games
23.10.2023
Viktor Vektor’s office is one of the most gruesome places in all of Cyberpunk 2077. A back-alley ripperdoc, he makes a living cutting patients open, swapping out their synthetic implants, and bandaging them back together again. It’s ground zero for where the meat meets the metal in the sci-fi RPG’s...
Maker Of Popular Starfield Mod Threatens Those Who Pirate It With Sabotage
27.9.2023
“Starfield Upscaler” is the second-most popular mod for Bethesda’s open-world RPG, but its creator sparked controversy earlier this month because the best version of it was locked behind a $5 Patreon subscription paywall. In a new interview with IGN he defends the practice, and threatens users...
Starfield Will Get DLSS Support, An FOV Slider, And More In Future Updates
13.9.2023
Starfield’s first update is here and its... pretty small and not very exciting. However, Bethesda has confirmed that some highly desired features and improvements, including DLSS support, will be added to the RPG via future updates. Read more
Borderlands Dev Gearbox Might Be Getting Sold Off Soon
11.9.2023
Gearbox Software, the studio most well-known for the Borderlands franchise, is reportedly up for sale as parent company Embracer Group considers options to “shore up its finances,” according to a September 11 Reuters report.Read more
Starfield’s Most Popular Mod Sparks Paywall Controversy, Immediately Gets Pirated
5.9.2023
Starfield’s upscaling controversy on PC continues. The person responsible for the open-world sci-fi RPG’s most popular mod offering DLSS2 support has now created one for DLSS3 as well. It’s locked behind a Patreon paywall though, angering some in the mod community and leading a few to circumvent...
Starfield’s Most Popular Mod Sparks Paywall Controversy, Immediately Gets Pirated
5.9.2023
Starfield’s upscaling controversy on PC continues. The person responsible for the open-world sci-fi RPG’s most popular mod offering DLSS2 support has now created one for DLSS3 as well. It’s locked behind a Patreon paywall though, angering some in the mod community and leading a few to circumvent...