Arc Raiders is a ‘Trojan Horse’ for demonstrating AI tool usage in game development, according to Nexon, after Embark built two hits at ‘a fraction of the cost you’d expect’

In a new capital markets briefing from Nexon, Patrick Söderlund, the newly appointed Nexon executive chairman and CEO of Arc Raiders and The Finals developer Embark Studios, spoke extensively about everyone’s favourite subject in games right now: AI. More specifically, he talked about how Embark’s approach to game development and AI can be deployed across…

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Minecraft creator Notch says ‘DLSS fundamentally makes no sense’, but the X comments say ‘um, actually’

Minecraft creator and opinion-haver Notch has taken to X to complain about Nvidia’s upscaling and Frame Generation tech, DLSS. You might have heard of it, particularly its controversial new iteration. However, it’s the whole concept of DLSS that seems to be confusing Notch. “DLSS fundamentally makes no sense,” the creator of the best-selling video game…

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AMD says Intel’s ‘interesting choices’ around multithreading could help Epyc CPUs gain server market share

AMD compute and enterprise AI VP Madhu Rangarajan told tech news site CRN that they are expecting next-gen AMD Venice servers to increase the performance lead over next-gen Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids, in part due to Intel’s decision to ditch for the upcoming server CPU generation. The AMD VP said, “We understand that our competitor…

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