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Riot MMO’s future is ‘incredibly bright’ despite co-founder likening its development to the grail: ‘Many a brave knight are going to die’

Despite a cloud of doom and gloom hanging over Riot’s mysterious MMO in the wake of 2XKO’s closure–including well-founded concerns from our own Harvey Randall—its co-founder seems confident in its ongoing development. At least, that’s what I’m parsing from his relative non-answer when pressed about it during a panel at PAX West over the weekend….

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Jensen Huang says 100,000 Nvidia GPUs were used to train OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-6 Astra, and there’s already plans to bring quadruple that amount of hardware online

OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 Astra access to a limited number of organisations earlier this week, with wider subscriber access planned to soon follow. According to Jensen Huang via X, the model was trained on “~100K+ Nvidia Grace Blackwell NVLink72” server racks, and there are already plans to get 400,000 GPUs online in anticipation of…

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Scuf Omega review

In recent years, Scuf controllers have lost some of their purpose to me. I distinctly remember wanting a Scuf controller to play Call of Duty as a teenager, as they were one of the only brands making solid pro controllers with distinct visuals and partnership deals with pro players. Now, you can get a pro…

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Retroid Teases Its New Dual-Screen Handheld, The ‘Pocket Duo’

Two Screen, One Pocket. Retroid Interactive has released a teaser trailer for an all-new handheld device: the Pocket Duo. While the developer has remained tight-lipped about the Pocket Duo’s details, the trailer focuses mostly on the new hardware’s dual-screen technology, reminiscent of the phenomenally successful Nintendo DS. Read the full article on timeextension.com Two Screen,…

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Obscure, Bomb-Based PS1 Puzzler ‘Suzuki Bakuhatsu’ Gets Fan Translated

Fly me to the Boom. A delicious, delirious piece of PlayStation history has been awarded greater access. As spotted by BlueSky user @nightelectricity, the obscure, Japan-only PS1 release Suzuki Bakuhatsu receives a full English translation courtesy of the dothacktranslate team. Released on PlayStation back in 2000, and published by Square Enix, no less, Suzuki Bakuhatsu…

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Riot co-founder doesn’t think 2XKO was ‘a mistake’ but perhaps a tough sell: ‘You’re not just competing against games, you’re competing against everything’

After years of development, a shaky launch, and layoffs a mere three weeks later, the inevitable came for Riot’s tag fighter 2XKO in August: shutdown of future development after this year, and refunds for everyone who had made in-game purchases up to that point. In its announcement post, Riot admitted that it was unable to…

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