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Epic is ending 3 Fortnite game modes following its latest round of layoffs: ‘We failed to build something awesome enough to attract and retain a large player base’

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Alongside the layoff of more than 1,000 employees announced earlier today, Epic is also ending a trio of Fortnite modes—Rocket Racing, Ballistic, and Festival Battle Stage—and removing the racing games Horizon Chase and Horizon Chase Turbo from sale. The Fortnite modes are being removed because, Epic said, “we’ve built a lot of Fortnite modes, and…

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says Doom is the most influential game ever made, and now I really want to ask him whether he prefers the chainsaw or the BFG

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I get the sense that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and I are quite different people. He’s the head of the world’s most valuable company, and a massively influential tech figure. I’m a long-haired hardware writer that had beans on toast for lunch. That sort of thing. However, when it comes to our opinions on games,…

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Someone already beat Marathon’s pinnacle three-player Compiler boss solo, just to rub salt in the wound of everyone who didn’t even see it

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Surviving Marathon’s latest map, Cryo Archive, is one hell of a challenge. Completing all the puzzles and the pinnacle event, a boss fight against Compiler, well, that’s on a whole other level entirely that we mere mortals can only aspire to reach. You need to gather six rare keys from the other maps to open…

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How to get Darkbringer in Crimson Desert

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Finding Darkbringer in Crimson Desert gives you a great-looking two-handed sword—perfect if you’re claymore-minded and want something a little more interesting than Rhett’s Longsword or the Balton Longsword. Darkbringer is also a really powerful weapon in its own right, because, unlike the Soul Spear, say, its powerful ability is a detachable Abyss Gear that fires…

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Sony reveals that its new PSSR upscaling for the Playstation 5 Pro has the same ‘core’ as AMD’s FSR Redstone but that doesn’t necessarily mean older AMD PC graphics cards are set to get an FSR upgrade

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Sony PlayStation lead system architect Mark Cerny has done an in-depth interview with Digital Foundry. The full discussion isn’t out yet, but a few very interesting tidbits have been released regarding Sony’s latest PSSR upscaling technology for the PlayStation 5 Pro, the related Project Amethyst collaboration with AMD, and how that all ties in with…

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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang confirms he was once asked to become chief executive of TSMC: ‘I declined it… it’s an unbelievable offer, but I simply couldn’t take it’

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Given Nvidia’s status as the world’s most valuable company, and the firm sitting at the forefront of the AI boom, I doubt CEO Jensen Huang has many regrets. Still, in a recent appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast, Huang confirmed that his future could have looked very different if he’d accepted a position as the…

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