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Stormgate's Ex-Blizzard Devs Want Players To Invest In The Company
19.2.2024
As 2024's big bad—Late Stage Capitalism—continues its grim rampage, some developers are looking to more innovative approaches to avoid the publishing industry’s self-sabotaging need for impossibly endless growth. Stormgate creator Frost Giant—a studio created by former StarCraft 2 devs—is following...
Yellow Paint Is Once Again Breaking People’s Brains
12.2.2024
Last week, thanks to the Final Fantasy VII Rebirth demo, some old video game discourse returned and overtook social media: The use of yellow paint to mark certain in-game objects or ledges. All it took was a now-viral tweet of Cloud climbing some yellow rocks in the new demo and a comment about...
PSA: Switch To Graphics Mode In Final Fantasy VII Rebirth ASAP
9.2.2024
Before you even set off to scale Mt. Nibel with Sephiroth in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’s demo, there are a number of settings you should consider tweaking. While many of the base settings are fine to leave alone, some, like the graphics option, really demand your attention before you dive in (yes...
Apple Vision Pro Launches with Blockchain-Based Metaverse Game – Next Big Thing?
3.2.2024
Apple’s highly anticipated headset Vision Pro has an upcoming metaverse app from a blockchain-related company. Victoria VR, a crypto-meets-virtual reality (VR) developer, aims to offer an immersive metaverse experience with ultra-realistic graphics, complementing the advanced technologies...
Doom Kinda Runs On Human Bacteria Now, If You’ve Got 599 Years
31.1.2024
The determination to run 1993’s seminal shooter Doom on absolutely everything is one of humanity’s finest features. From tractors to pregnancy tests, if the technology exists, someone’s trying to install Doom on it. And you know what else is technically technology? Living organisms. Yes,...
Obsidian’s Avowed Will Defy One Major RPG Trend
29.1.2024
Amidst the recent flurry of information about Obsidian’s forthcoming RPG Avowed, one crucial morsel of information went under the radar. We learned that the first-person role-player would have lively combat, a classless main character exploring large, sprawling levels set in the same universe...
Tomb Raider Remaster Fixes The Worst Thing About The Original Trilogy
16.1.2024
Tomb Raider I-III Remastered will feature some spiffy quality-of-life updates, including the ability to turn on modern controls and health bars for bosses. However, the folks behind the updated collection are being careful to preserve the original games and let fans turn off most of the new tweaks...
These Incredible Cyberpunk 2077 Mods Will Make You Question Reality
2.1.2024
Leave it to modders to push the boundaries of what was once (and arguably still is) one of the most impressive visual showcases of modern gaming: Cyberpunk 2077. A skyrocketing post on Reddit shows off some pretty remarkable graphical feats that one enterprising player has achieved. Featuring...
Bitcoin Miner Hive Diversifies Into AI, Acquires 96 Nvidia GPUs to Boost High-Performance Computing Operations
15.12.2023
On Friday, Hive Digital, based in Vancouver and specializing in bitcoin mining and high-performance computing (HPC), announced its foray into artificial intelligence (AI) and HPC technologies. This strategic move involves acquiring 96 Nvidia H100 graphics processing units (GPUs). From Bitcoin...
Grand Theft Auto V Joins PlayStation Plus This Month
13.12.2023
Oh hey, we’re just burning through December, aren’t we? Well if the 2024 release calendar is lookin’ rather slim to you, might I interest you in some new additions to Sony’s PlayStation Plus service? This month includes quite a few tempting offers. Read more
Big Diablo 4 Update Accidently Breaks Players' Glyphs
6.12.2023
Diablo 4's latest update went live on December 5. It added a new end game pinnacle dungeon challenge where players rush to defeat bloodseekers in the Abattoir of Zir, with the goal of spawning an even more difficult boss. It’s meant to be one of the hardest fights in the game, aimed at players...
Kotaku Readers React To The GTA 6 Trailer
6.12.2023
On December 5, Rockstar Games dropped the official Grand Theft Auto VI trailer following a leak. On that same day, we asked you, Kotaku readers, to share your opinions on what you saw of the upcoming crime sim. The responses were…chaotic, but there was one major theme throughout: the trailer looks...
Hope For A Final Fantasy Tactics Remaster Springs Eternal
5.12.2023
Final Fantasy Tactics is one of the best games Square Enix ever produced, and it’s not available anywhere on modern consoles or PC. A remaster is an obvious way to fix that problem, and it seemed like all signs were pointing to one getting announced any day now. So it’s an especially cruel twist...
Northern Data Subsidiary Bolsters AI Capabilities With $362 Million Nvidia GPU Investment
29.11.2023
On Wednesday, Northern Data Group, headquartered in Frankfurt and specializing in bitcoin mining, disclosed that its subsidiary, Taiga Cloud, has secured a significant acquisition of about 8,200 Nvidia H100 Tensor Core Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). These newly acquired units will complement...
Baldur’s Gate 3 Takes Place In A Very Small Part Of The Dungeons & Dragons Map
27.11.2023
Larian Studios’ hit RPG Baldur’s Gate 3 is expansive and consuming, but its map isn’t quite the size of something you’d expect in open-world games like The Witcher 3 or The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. So it shouldn’t be surprising that a fan was able to pretty much mark exactly where in the Dungeons...
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
PlayStation Plus Premium Has Free Trials Of 2023’s Best And Worst Games
20.11.2023
PlayStation Plus Premium, the most expensive tier of Sony’s online membership, has one perk that sometimes feels glossed over next to things like an extensive game library: game trials. These let you play a chunk of a game before you throw down cash. But not all game trials are made equal. Two...
Publicly-Listed Bitcoin Miner Bitdeer Expands Into AI With Nvidia
10.11.2023
Several bitcoin mining enterprises are shifting their focus to artificial intelligence (AI) computing and cloud services. In a recent development, the publicly traded blockchain and high-performance computing company Bitdeer, disclosed its expansion into AI. This strategic move involves providing...
Mismatch Between the Demand and Supply of GPUs Stifling AI Innovation — Tory Green
4.11.2023
The mismatch between the demand and supply of graphics processing units (GPUs) is potentially stifling artificial intelligence (AI) innovation, Tory Green, the COO of the decentralized GPU cloud service provider io.net, has said. According to the COO, this mismatch stems from the fact manufacturers...
Baldur’s Gate 3, Three Months Later
3.11.2023
It doesn’t feel like it’s been three months since Larian Studios freed Baldur’s Gate 3 from its Early Access shackles and unleashed its huge Dungeons & Dragons epic on the world. In that time, it’s quickly become the highest-reviewed game on Metacritic this year, making it a likely shoo-in for Game...