‘A massive, massive moment of wow.’ Microsoft CEO predicts AI-generated games are a ‘CGI moment’ for the industry

Microsoft’s new AI-powered game generation platform Muse is akin to the impact that CGI had on the film industry. So, says CEO Satya Nadella in a wide ranging interview covering everything from AI and quantum computing, to the future of economic growth, while slightly ignoring the fact that Microsoft’s AI-generated games are only running at…

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‘It’s very straightforward’: Acer plans to raise the price of its PCs in the US by 10% in reaction to Trump’s tech tariffs

President Trump may have only come into office mere months ago, but it already has a buzzword—and that word is tariff. While it’s unclear if all of Trump’s threats to heavily tax imports from various countries into the US will materialise, his administration has already announced a trade policy that includes a 10% tariff on…

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There’s a simple way to enable FSR 3 frame gen in Avowed and it more than doubled my frame rate, but it makes waterfalls look ugly as sin

I’ve only spent a brief few hours with Obsidian’s RPG/fish-person-friend simulator Avowed so far, but I’m enjoying my time with it. What I haven’t been enjoying is the occasional frame rate dip, along with a general twitchiness our Nick highlighted in his performance analysis. However, it turns out there’s actually a simple tweak that enables…

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Players are already finding creative solutions to Prologue: Go Wayback’s grueling difficulty: ‘You could just chug gasoline’

Prologue: Go Wayback! is probably one of the hardest survival games I’ve played in a while, but don’t let the supposed difficulty put you off giving the survival roguelike a go. Because if the playtests revealed anything, it’s that anything’s possible when you have a pocket full of blackberries and access to a heat source….

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