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Sony looks to be ‘backing away from putting their exclusive console stuff on PC,’ says Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier

Videogame oracle Jason Schreier has issued a dire portent: Sony might be gearing up to reverse its push onto PC of the past six years. In the latest episode of the Triple Click podcast, Schreier said that “the sense I’m getting is that [Sony is] backing away from putting their exclusive console stuff—like, traditional singleplayer…

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Anthropic is standing up to the US Department of War and refusing to remove AI autonomous weapon and mass surveillance safeguards: ‘We cannot in good conscience accede to their request’

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has released a statement on the company’s website regarding its months-long dispute with the US Department of War over the use of its AI technology. In the statement. Amodei outlines his refusal to remove safeguards that prevent its AI products from being used for fully autonomous weapons and domestic mass surveillance…

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Nvidia releases then unreleases GeForce 595.59 drivers as reports of graphics card fan outages and clock speed issues pour in

If you thought you were being diligent by getting the latest Nvidia GeForce drivers in time for the launch of Resident Evil Requiem, you should probably move back to the last ones. Otherwise, you might start to find your rig acting a little strange. That’s according to Nvidia’s latest blog post, announcing the rollback of…

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‘The Light really did call EVERYBODY’: players find Leeory Jenkins, complete with his cloth shoulderpads, defending the Sunwell in World of Warcraft: Midnight

World of Warcraft: Midnight’s opening minutes throw you right in at the deep end, seeing you defending the Sunwell in a direct continuation of the expansion’s trailer—alongside a host of paladin and priest cameos. It’s a really neat moment, honestly—Blizzard’s seriously tapped into the well of named NPCs here. It’s a veritable feast if you’re…

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The massive difference between how well Resident Evil Requiem runs on the Steam Deck and an Asus ROG Ally just adds more fuel to the rumour that AMD has abandoned driver support for its Ryzen Z1 chips

If you own a handheld gaming PC that’s powered by an AMD Ryzen Z1 or Z1 Extreme processor, like the Asus ROG Ally, you may have noticed something’s missing. Not a feature or application, but any kind of driver update for the integrated GPU within the last six months. Paired with the fact that Resident…

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Fallout 76 adjusted roughly 50 events and activities for the latest free update, with more XP for higher levels and shorter timers: ‘We tried to concentrate on the broad strokes’

The signature of Fallout 76’s latest free update, The Backwoods, is obviously the addition of everyone’s favourite elusive cryptid, Bigfoot. But the patch also brings some much-needed changes to events and activities. For starters, you can actually tell their icons apart now. “One of the first things you guys will notice is that we’ve differentiated…

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