2024

China may be walking back a series of sweeping new restrictions on gaming that were announced in December 2023, as a Reuters report says the country’s gaming regulator has removed the proposed rule changes from the National Press and Publication Administration website entirely. The proposed changes, which apparently appeared without warning to gaming companies, included…

Rising Lords is just the sort of game I’m most vulnerable to: historical strategy with the simple setup of a tabletop wargame and the quality of life and large numbers that are only possible when a computer does the math and moves the pieces for you. What I especially like about it, though, is that…

What do vikings know about civic planning?  I pondered that question while I viewed my settlement, which stretched from the base of my flying ship to the shores of a river hanging in space. In that vast expanse I’d just placed a house right next to an iron mine, which would set me up to…

We mentioned a couple of weeks back that Nvidia had a new toy called RTX Video HDR coming. Well, it’s here as part of Nvidia’s latest driver release for the launch of the RTX 4070 TI Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.  Long story short, RTX Video HDR uses AI algorithms to convert SDR video to HDR and it’s part…

When a trailer for a new Five Nights at Freddy’s game called Into the Pit first surfaced, the Five Nights subreddit immediately clamped down on it, warning that “all discussions of said trailer will be removed until the trailer is officially released.” But then Five Nights creator Scott Cawthon jumped in and said it’s all…