Elon Musk has been snapping up ex-Nvidia specialists to help make AI world models, which is fine but please keep away from our games

If there’s one kind of AI that’s most relevant to gaming, it would be the so-called ‘world model.’ This is a system that can learn to simulate real-world things, which might allow for ‘easy’ creation of realistic games. And that seems to have been on Elon Musk’s mind, as his xAI has been hiring Nvidia…

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I’ve been training my whole life for a battle royale like Final Sentence, it’s just a shame the demo is a tad undercooked right now

I’ve been typing for most of my life—flogging flax so I could afford a dragon longsword in RuneScape, roleplaying in World of Warcraft, and at present, writing multiple articles a day for the good site PC Gamer. I average about 130 words per minute, which isn’t competitive or anything, but I’m pretty nippy compared to…

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The Deus Ex mod that’s a better sequel than Invisible War just got a mondo-update, and playing it couldn’t be easier

Like so many others, I was real dismayed when Aspyr lifted the veil on its upcoming official Deus Ex Remaster and revealed something alarmingly shiny and remarkably bulbous*. This dismay lasted about 10 seconds, at which point I remembered we PC people have access to Deus Ex: Revision (DX:R)—a fanmade and fan-maintained DX1 modernisation you…

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