New World’s Steam page has become a tombstone: You can’t buy it, the image gallery just announces its shutdown, and the reviews are laying into Amazon for killing it

In the wake of “strategic changes” at Amazon that cost 14,000 jobs and drove a stake through the heart of its best-known RPG, New World, the game’s Steam page has become a sort of tombstone for it. Options to purchase the game are gone, the recent reviews are an angry chorus of fans blindsided by…

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NESBook Is Your “Unofficial Coffee Table Companion” To Nintendo’s Iconic 8-Bit Console

“Pure, unadulterated love for the NES, packaged in an unofficial history book”. Ninty Media, the publisher behind GameBook, GameBook Color and GameBook Advance, is preparing to release a new tome which celebrates Nintendo’s first true home console, the NES. “We’ve been making books for more than 5 years now, with Paul Murphy (Ninty Media’s owner)…

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A fake livestream featuring an AI-generated, crypto-promoting Jensen Huang was broadcast at the same time as the Nvidia GTC keynote, gaining 5x more live views than the real thing

Nvidia streamed the keynote speech of its latest GPU Technology Conference yesterday—though unfortunately thousands of folks seem to have fallen for a deepfake Jensen Huang extolling the virtues of cryptocurrency instead. Just when you thought the dodgy reuploaders and react channels were bad enough, it turns out you’ve now got to worry about fully counterfeit…

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Not content with dominating the market for AI GPUs, Nvidia is turning its attention to QPUs for quantum computing

AI domination is seemingly not enough for Nvidia. Now the world’s most valuable company is turning its attention to quantum computing. Give it up for the future of “accelerated quantum computing platforms.” At least, that’s how Nvidia’s CEO, he of the signature leather jacket, Jensen Huang sees things. During yesterday’s GTC keynote presentation, Huang explained…

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