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A minor kerfuffle in the Balatro subreddit has led developer LocalThunk to weigh in on the topic of AI-generated art, and his position is clear: It hurts artists, and it’s not welcome. As documented by RPS, the whole thing began when a now-former subreddit moderator named DrTankHead jumped into a thread questioning the presence of…
If there’s one thing everyone knows about the upcoming life sim Inzoi it’s that it’s The Sims but beautifully hyper-realistic. Or it will be, if you’ve upgraded your PC in the last five or so years. But folks like me with a slightly older GPU might be viewing its Unreal Engine 5-powered graphics through a…
BioWare veteran Mark Darrah, who left the company in 2020 before returning to shepherd Dragon Age: The Veilguard to the finish line, has recently been posting videos about his time in the industry: And the latest is about delays. Darrah’s take on delays is simple: If you really need one, it’s better to bite the…
Rise of the Ronin arrived on Steam this week, a year after its debut on PlayStation 5, and I’m sorry to say it’s not going well, as players are reporting serious performance problems with the game. Koei Tecmo says it’s now “investigating” the reports and working on a patch that will hopefully “fix or improve…
Final Fantasy 14 is one of my favourite videogames, and has been for the better part of a decade now. But when I try and get a vibe check on where the game is at, the one word that constantly pops into my head is: Strange. It’s in a rather odd spot right now, isn’t…
Trion Worlds’ Defiance was an odd duck. It launched in 2013 alongside a TV show tie-in with the same name, set on a future Earth following an alien invasion—during which the planet was aggressively terraformed. Both the game and the show were a mix of grungy post-apocalyptic western and futuristic sci-fi. A neat hook in…
Silicon has dominated the chip industry as its foundational material since, well, forever. But now researchers at Peking University claim to have cooked up a novel approach to integrating transistors using, yup, you didn’t guess it, bismuth. The result (via Interesting Engineering) is said to be 40% more speed in return for a 10% lower…
Ever since I was a wee sapling, I wanted to be a writer. The goal was originally to become a published fiction author, but then I discovered videogames, and that’s hauled me down a merry little rabbit hole that I’m not in a particular rush to exit–truly, a time honoured tradition for creatives everywhere. Well,…
Last month I reported that Microsoft claims its new quantum chip is powered by an ‘entirely new state of matter’. I said back then that I would leave it to the brainy big wigs to assess whether this new Majorana 1 chip actually represents the breakthrough that’s been claimed. And I’m glad I did, because…
As Monster Hunter Wilds rises to some absolutely absurd popularity, and the game’s most tryhard of tryhards get to grips with its armoury of systems, the playerbase has already shifted over from ‘how do I hunt monsters?’ to ‘how do I hunt these monsters in the most stylish, braggadocious way possible?’ Among this secret society…