‘I want you to have the confidence to give it a try’: Elden Ring Nightreign’s combat director politely tells you to git gud, says he’s beat all the game’s bosses, solo, without relics

Elden Ring Nightreign is a hard game—no, not just hard, sometimes downright unfair. It’s in a way that’s incredibly charming, mind, but as our own Ted Litchfield wrote last week, it’s “player hostile” or, in other words, occasionally “such bullshit”. I had my own taste of this recently as, while playing with a couple of…

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Anniversary: Sega Has Reached Retirement Age

65 years young! Sega is one of the industry’s most famous companies, and it turns 65 this week. The company was founded on June 3rd, 1960, by Martin Bromley and Richard Stewart in Hawaii under the name Nihon Goraku Bussan and would be rebranded as Sega Enterprises, Ltd five years later (Sega’s history technically goes…

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TSMC boss claims the chipmaker doesn’t need to pick winners to work with, just wait patiently ‘because they will all come to us in the end’

Yesterday, TSMC held a shareholder meeting, and in an interview following this the company showed every sign of confidence in its future, regardless of the ebbing and flowing of different AI companies that are some of its biggest customers. The world’s biggest semiconductor company even went as far as to say about AI companies: “We…

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The UK House of Lords denies the government’s AI bill for ‘state sanctioned theft’ of copyrighted data for the fourth time

AI doesn’t care about copyright. It can’t, obviously, because it’s AI, and not a human being with thoughts and feelings. But it particularly doesn’t care about copyright, partly because the US and UK governments are both pushing to let AI companies scrape data for use in generated text and imagery without a care thrown to…

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