Arrowhead CEO reassures Helldivers 2 players in the wake of Johan Pilestedt’s sabbatical that if they can keep the game ‘going for 10 years, we will’

Helldiver’s 2’s former CEO, now CCO, made headlines earlier this week—including ours—by announcing he’d be on a sabbatical following years of hard work. As for why that’s a big deal, well, Pilestedt has been particularly vocal as far as creative leads and directors go, speaking directly to the people on game balance, review controversies, and…

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Monster Hunter Wilds director is proud of his horrible, oily giant octopus son that belches flame and writhes in the muck, says it’s a technical challenge he’s ‘finally getting to attempt’

Yuya Tokuda, director of the upcoming slay-a-thon Monster Hunter Wilds, is very proud of the terrifying Oilwell Basin and the critters within it. The basin itself is styled as a ‘what if we made the deep ocean on land and then set it all on fire’ zone. For context, it’s home to that horrible “affront…

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Forget DeepSeek R1, apparently it’s now Alibaba that has the most powerful, the cheapest, the most everything-est chatbot

As Ferris astutely observed, life moves pretty fast in chatbot land. So, forget that ancient news about DeepSeek’s cheap and powerful LLM tanking Nvidia’s share price. Because here comes another Chinese tech giant, Alibaba, with its own new AI model that surpasses the lot. Well, it does according to Alibaba. Qwen 2.5-Max, for it is…

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How Half-Life 2 Forever Changed the FPS Genre

In 2024, just over 20 years ago, Valve created Half-Life 2, a first-person shooter that continues the story of silent protagonist Gordon Freeman. Once a humble scientist, Freeman now finds himself in the middle of a global war against a multidimensional species known as the Combine, with humanity’s fate resting in the balance. In short,…

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Nvidia RTX 5080 Founders Edition review

The Nvidia RTX 5080 is like the difficult second album for the RTX Blackwell GPU band. It’s a card that comes in at fully half the price of its RTX 5090 sibling, and presents us with a graphics card which—even more so than the previous card—reminds me very much of its erstwhile last-gen stablemate, the…

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