Final Fantasy 14’s chaotic alliance raid lives up to the name by swapping around 2 wrongly labeled attacks an entire month after everyone’s already learned them

Final Fantasy 14’s first chaotic alliance raid—a higher difficulty 24-player fight that’s adapted from one of the original A Realm Reborn raids—arrived at the end of December, and I actually like it a lot. Even if having to rely on 23 other people to consistently execute each mechanic is the definition of futile. Well, why…

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CRKD Neo S review

Controllers are better than mice and keyboard for gaming [Editor’s note: nope]. A keebmouse set-up is definitely going to get you the better kill death score yet controllers are more comfortable, accessible, intuitive, flexible, and fun. As you can see, I have my funeral plot all picked out atop this contrary PC gaming take hill,…

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How to Watch Xbox Developer_Direct 2025 on Thursday

Category: Developer_Direct January 21, 2025 How to Watch Xbox Developer_Direct 2025 on Thursday Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Developer_Direct returns this Thursday, January 23 at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 6pm UK, and will bring you a deep-dive into some of the incredible games on the way for Xbox players this year. The show…

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Oh well, looks like the next 4 years are going to be an AI free-for-all as Trump nixes Biden administration’s safety order

Among a very (very) long list of Biden administration executive orders cancelled on day one of Trump’s second term as president, one stands out as particularly impactful when it comes to technology. Executive Order 14110 has been nixed and with it a framework for regulating the development of AI tools, software and models. Order 14110…

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Now Nvidia’s hardware blocks have been AI’d out of existence all it will take for Frame Generation support on RTX 20- and 30-series GPUs is ‘further optimization and testing’

A lot of things are going to change when Nvidia’s new RTX Blackwell cards launch this month, with a bunch of it coming to existing cards as well as the RTX 50-series. But will one of those changes see DLSS Frame Generation coming to the Ampere-based RTX 30-series? It’s possible, because now we’re just talking…

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