SK hynix, one of the three biggest memory manufacturers (along with Samsung and Micron), seems to be investing a lot of money into AI, and the South Korean government is happy to see that renewed investment. This time, it’s to the tune of 100 trillion won (or $65 billion as of the time of writing)….
Here’s my problem with Kingdom Come: Deliverance—it’s simply not finicky enough. It’s too straightforward, I am too able to keep its rules and demands in my head, the game does not compel me to keep track of enough small things. Oh, you expect me to put my armour on in a precise order? That’s complicated….
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, in my humble opinion, deserves the laurels it got—it’s a gorgeous, inventive, personality-filled romp with an ending that rips your heart out and stomps it into a pulp fine enough for use in paint. But I’d hesitate to call it ‘perfect’, mostly because I don’t believe in perfection as a concept,…
Names poached from Tolkien’s works. Glossy websites, packed with animations and all kinds of promises. Slightly ludicrous tech demonstration. All the hallmarks of today’s tech companies, one might think. But in the case of one nuclear power start-up, the super-slick marketing is actually a good reminder that AI’s rampant hunger for energy needs can’t be…
Coming this summer! A new Wizardry Variants Daphne collaboration event has been announced for this summer, in which the dungeon RPG will team up with the long-running MMORPG Final Fantasy XI. If you are a fan of classic JRPGs, you’ll likely already know that the Wizardry and Final Fantasy series have long been linked, thanks…
“not only Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda”. Nintendo designer and legend Shigeru Miyamoto says he wants to expand Nintendo’s IP outside of video games to include “new characters” beyond Mario and Zelda. Speaking at Nintendo’s recent investor Q&A (the official the English translation has now been published), one of the 19 questions put…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp was recently interviewed by CNBC, where he gave an impassioned decry that the current AI market is not working, urged other panellists to call up CEOs and test his hypothesis, and made clear that his nervous energy was not in any way related to any substance usage. Yeah, it’s a strange…
Funky fresh hardware sports a price tag that makes my eyes water—so some companies are considering firing up production on older product lines again. Rumours suggest that Intel is next. Apparently, Intel plans to increase supply of its 10th, 12th, 13th, 14th generation CPUs—that’s everything from 2020’s Comet Lake up to the latest 2023 iteration…
“My birthday gift to the community”. This week brought us news that Sony is ending production of optical discs for its PlayStation 5 console and has confirmed that it will be the last machine it makes with a disc drive. With Microsoft widely expected to follow suit with its next Xbox, it leaves Nintendo as…
Circana’s Mat Piscatella says “Nintendo is going to be Nintendo”. Sony’s announcement this week it would end PlayStation disc-based releases by 2028 has unsurprisingly raised questions about the future of physical games media on other console platforms. If you are wondering about Nintendo’s position in this space, Circana senior director and video game industry advisor…