‘Let’s just fail quickly this time’: Semiwork took a ‘big risk’ on REPO after its first game took 6 years to make and didn’t sell very well

The co-op horror game REPO is, like Schedule I, a surprise indie hit. Released in February, it’s got an “overwhelmingly positive” rating across more than 91,000 user reviews on Steam and remains near the top of its most-played chart: As I write this, nearly 170,000 people are playing. In a new developer video diving into…

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OpenAI countersues Elon Musk and the gloves come off: ‘These antics are just history on repeat—Elon being all about Elon’

OpenAI is countersuing Elon Musk, and claims the company’s co-founder is engaged in “bad faith tactics” in order to gain control of its industry-leading AI technology. Musk sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, his fellow co-founder, last year in an attempt to stop him changing the corporate structure from a non-profit to a for-profit…

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PCs with Intel’s new warranty-backed ‘IPO’ overclocking feature reportedly go on sale in China with claimed 10% frame-rate uplifts but what about the rest of us?

No, Intel hasn’t gone all Gordon Gekko and got into the business of stock floatations and corporate finance. Intel Performance Optimization or IPO isn’t an Initial Public Offering of a new share, but a new warranty-backed tuning paradigm that’s designed to act as a middle ground between running CPUs like the Intel Core Ultra 9…

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