‘I want you to have the confidence to give it a try’: Elden Ring Nightreign’s combat director politely tells you to git gud, says he’s beat all the game’s bosses, solo, without relics

Elden Ring Nightreign is a hard game—no, not just hard, sometimes downright unfair. It’s in a way that’s incredibly charming, mind, but as our own Ted Litchfield wrote last week, it’s “player hostile” or, in other words, occasionally “such bullshit”. I had my own taste of this recently as, while playing with a couple of…

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TSMC boss claims the chipmaker doesn’t need to pick winners to work with, just wait patiently ‘because they will all come to us in the end’

Yesterday, TSMC held a shareholder meeting, and in an interview following this the company showed every sign of confidence in its future, regardless of the ebbing and flowing of different AI companies that are some of its biggest customers. The world’s biggest semiconductor company even went as far as to say about AI companies: “We…

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The UK House of Lords denies the government’s AI bill for ‘state sanctioned theft’ of copyrighted data for the fourth time

AI doesn’t care about copyright. It can’t, obviously, because it’s AI, and not a human being with thoughts and feelings. But it particularly doesn’t care about copyright, partly because the US and UK governments are both pushing to let AI companies scrape data for use in generated text and imagery without a care thrown to…

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Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon review

The setup is this: you’re an escaped prisoner who gets wrangled into defending the war-torn isle of Avalon from an impending otherworldly force called the “wyrdness.” And also the soul of the centuries-dead King Arthur has hitched a ride on your subconscious. After centuries of imprisonment, he wants to take back his kingdom, and you…

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Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma review

One might assume that if you fell out of the sky, crash-landed through the roof of a shrine, and woke up with amnesia to a flying, talking sheep with horns listing your divine duties, you might get a day off. You might want to relax and recuperate. You might take a moment for yourself. Need…

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