Elon Musk is ‘full of crap’ for claiming xAI will make an AI-generated game in a year, says Glen Schofield: ‘I want to actually say that to him’

Dead Space creator and former Striking Distance boss Glen Schofield is an advocate for AI use in game development and is not shy about it. During a keynote speech at Gamescom Asia x Thailand Games Show titled ‘Ten Ways I Come Up with Ideas’, Schofield championed generative AI as a brainstorming tool in game development,…

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Dwarf Fortress is getting a siege update in November with goblin battering rams and defense-destroying troll engineers that’ll dismantle over a decade of dwarven siege strategy

While they’ve been a terror for countless fledgling fortbuilders, goblin sieges in Dwarf Fortress become predictably trivial once you’ve got a good amount of mountainhome management under your belt. That’s about to change: On November 3, Dwarf Fortress gets its awaited Siege update, and a lot of dwarves are going to be a lot less…

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Saudi Arabia’s acquisition of Electronic Arts faces pushback from game developers, petition calls on FTC to ‘scrutinize this deal closely’

The $55 billion acquisition of Electronic Arts by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and private equity firms is facing more pushback, as the United Videogame Workers-CWA union has put out a statement calling on regulators and lawmakers to “ensure that any path forward protects jobs, preserves creative freedom, and keeps decision-making accountable to the workers…

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Nvidia’s little gold box of pure AI power, the DGX Spark, is finally out and the comparison with AMD’s much cheaper Strix Halo chip is looking a little fugly

So, Nvidia’s little gold box of pure AI power, the DGX Spark is finally out. But is it any good? The answer depends who’s doing the asking and what they’re asking of the Spark. By some common measures, it’s no faster than another small box based on AMD’s Strix Halo chip that’s available for about…

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EU MEPs agree on recommendation for Europe to ‘make full use of its powers’ to ban loot boxes for minors and social media for those under 16

Over the last few months we’ve seen the EU ramp up its efforts to tackle the possible harms of the online landscape, whether that’s the threats that AI poses or threats to minors. On the latter point, gacha and Overwatch gamers need to batten down the hatches because it looks like the political bloc might…

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