Skate: hands-on report

Skate: hands-on report

Fifteen years since its last release, the Skate series returns with an entry that turns a whole city into a skater’s paradise. The newest Skate is a free-to-play open world where you can take on a series of challenges, spectate other skaters, team up with friends, or challenge other players to throw down and trade…

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Final Fantasy 14’s incoming choose-your-own difficulty will be ‘the general direction’ going forward, but Yoshi-P suggests they might need to trim future patches to compensate

Final Fantasy 14’s gonna be shaking up how it handles difficulty come patch 7.35, after a mini-disaster with patch 7.25’s Occult Crescent back in May. To put a long story short, Creative Studio 3’s somewhat fumbled approach to content difficulty came to a head; the Forked Tower somehow managed to thread the needle, becoming a…

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Hideo Kojima questionably visits Saudi Arabia to drop the news that he knows just what Death Stranding 3 should be but he wants someone else to make it

Great news: Hideo Kojima already knows just what he wants Death Stranding 3 to be. Bad news: some other poor sod is gonna have to make it, because Kojima’s very busy converting Willem Dafoe into an Ogg Vorbis file or whatever it is he does these days. Kojima let slip the news (via GamesRadar) at…

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Oh goody, the ‘first known AI-powered ransomware’ has been discovered and it ‘may exfiltrate data, encrypt it, or potentially destroy it’

Like a cut episode of Black Mirror, a ransomware has been spotted that prompts AI to cause havoc in machines. Naturally, it’s called PromptLock, and it reportedly uses OpenAI’s gpt-oss-20b, which means it doesn’t need a constant connection to the internet to operate. According to Eset Research (via Tom’s Hardware), this new ransomware uses “the…

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