Disney CEO says AI is an ‘engagement engine’ and Disney+ is soon gonna be crammed to bursting with it

Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company’s Disney+ streaming platform is about to undergo “the biggest and the most significant changes from a product perspective” since its 2019 launch and, surprise surprise, it’s all about AI. Iger was speaking on Disney’s quarterly earnings call this Thursday (thanks, Variety) and, in the context of Disney+ merging…

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Nintendo Had No “Intention To Hinder Or Invalidate” Third-Party Docks For Switch 2

Manufacturers are working on updates to their docks. Following reports that some Switch 2 owners are having issues with third-party docks, Nintendo has addressed the issue. In a response to Tom’s Hardware and Kotaku, a representative told the outlets that “Nintendo does not have any intention to hinder or invalidate legal third-party dock compatibility.” Read…

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‘This was the wrong path for Destiny’: After 4 months of dwindling players and community outrage, Bungie admits that The Edge of Fate’s bold new vision for Destiny 2 was a mistake

It’s been a difficult few months for Destiny 2, ever since the release of The Edge of Fate expansion’s Portal—a new progression system that replaced the old seasonal content model with, bluntly, a soulless and underbaked grind. I’ve written extensively about my problems with the Portal’s many baffling design choices, but until now Bungie has…

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The glorious sound of silence: Researchers have developed the ‘world’s first spatial active noise cancellation’, which uses the power of a GPU to deaden whole rooms

Modern life can be pretty stressful at times, and it’s not helped by the fact that there is so much noise around us, all the time. From packed office spaces, roads clogged with vehicles, and public areas overflowing with people, finding silence to think and refresh isn’t easy. Researchers in Japan believe they have cracked…

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‘No point making a high-spec Steam Machine,’ Larian publishing boss says, because anyone who wants a powerful PC is going to look elsewhere anyway

Valve unveiled the new Steam Machine earlier this week, and it’s cute (if you’re into cubes, anyway). But it’s not exactly a powerhouse machine: PC Gamer hardware editor Jacob Ridley, who understands this stuff far better than I ever will, called it “fairly underpowered,” noting that it rocks just a 200 watt power supply—a fraction…

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‘We resolved this misunderstanding’: Misery returns to Steam after ending its Stalker DMCA spat with GSC Game World

Just under a week after disappearing from store listings due to an alleged DMCA strike from Stalker series developer GSC Game World, Sovietcore postnuclear survival game Misery is once again available for purchase on Steam. In a Steam news post, Misery developer Platypus Entertainment said that the game has been updated to address GSC’s DMCA…

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Despite Intel dropping the desktop CPU ball this year, its share of the market fell by just 4.9%—while AMD still lags significantly behind on mobile

We weren’t particularly impressed with Intel’s Arrow Lake desktop CPUs upon their release earlier this year. While chips like the Core Ultra 9 285K and Core Ultra 5 245K are far from sluggish, we clocked them as slower in games overall than some of the comparable chips from the older Raptor Lake generation, and nowhere…

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