Month: September 2024

The intersection of AI and existing industries continues to create real friction, which will probably ultimately end in significant legal rulings, and one of the fields at the forefront is visual art. Last year one artist deliberately fudged the rules when entering a competition and won it with an AI-created image, while the world’s premiere photography awards were also successfully punk…

The last few months have seen some incredibly low prices on memory and storage products, particularly SSDs. That’s great for consumers but not so for manufacturers, who have been struggling to turn a profit. That looks set to flip. The prices of DRAM and NAND chips are on the rise, and that means the bargain bonanza is likely coming to an end.

According to a report from Digitimes (via Tom…

Concord, the upcoming hero shooter from Firewalker Studios and Sony, “has some juice,” executive editor Tyler Wilde declared in a recent preview. Even better, it also has a couple of beta weekends coming very soon, so while I personally would trust Tyler’s assessment implicitly, you’ll be able to make up your own mind if that’s how you prefer to do things—as long as you have a PC up to th…

Webcams are often, at best, entirely functional objects. Few of us have lain awake at night wondering what our next webcam purchase will be, such is the utilitarian nature of a device that for most is simply a PC-connected camera that lets the people you work with see your grinning visage. Still, the need to buy a separate camera for your PC may soon have passed, as Microsoft is testing out an …

You might have noticed that RuneScape was briefly banned from Twitter, yesterday—despite its Old School RuneScape and Jagex accounts remaining up. Not a peep, nor a whisper as to the how and why, just snapped out of existence by Mr. Musk.

Looks like RuneScape’s Twitter/X got removed from r/2007scape

Considering the latest controversi…

There’s a hint for today’s Wordle just below; feel free to use it to give your game the best possible start, or to stop Friday’s puzzle from slipping away from you a few guesses down the board. Hoping for something a little more direct? Then you’ll want to click through to the August 2 (1140) answer. However you win, have fun.

I thought I had this one so many times, only for the letters t…

When was the last time AMD’s graphics subdivision sold more graphics cards than Nvidia? According to data from industry analysts, the answer is way back in 2005 when the company was called ATI and had yet to be acquired by AMD. Ouch.

But wait, there’s good news. Kinda. The latest data from JPR shows AMD regaining some market share from Nvidia. Don’t get too excited. The new figures put AM…

In 2021, Microsoft’s gaming division published games like Forza Horizon 5, Halo Infinite, Age of Empires 4, and Psychonauts 2. It was declared Metacritic’s publisher of the year thanks to its games receiving an average metascore of 87.4, helped also to the Xbox Series X port of Microsoft Flight Simulator releasing that year. While in 2022 Microsoft backed some well-received smaller games—…

A young swordsman is caught up in a feud between rival martial arts families, and must take to the road in order to improve his skills and become a hero. It’s the delightful plot of so many fantasical wuxia stories, and Wandering Sword, a forthcoming tactical RPG from Chinese developer The Swordman Studio looks to create that rich world in beautifully-lit 2.5d style.

Wandering Sword will …

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Piranha Bytes, creators of the Gothic, Risen, and Elex series, was recently closed by parent company Embracer. That’s a shame, but there’s still one studio out there carrying the torch for ambitiously janky mid-budget European RPGs, and that’s Spiders.

The French studio responsible for games like Steelrising, The Technomancer, Bound By Flame, and Mars: War Logs is currently devel…