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Governments are increasingly considering integrating autonomous AI agents in high-stakes military and foreign-policy decision-making. That’s the pithy, dispassionate observation of a recent study from a collective of US universities. So, they set out to discover just how the latest AI models behave when pitched against one another in a range of wargame scenarios. The results…
After several years of semi-public development, life simulation game Paralives is ready to nail down a release year. But it’s not this year. Though some of the other upcoming competition for The Sims is expected to arrive in 2024, Paralives has revealed in a new trailer that it’s targeting 2025 for its early access release. …
Counter-Strike 2 released last year and, judging by the fact 1.1 million players are fragging each other as I write this, has more-or-less seamlessly replaced Counter-Strike:Global Offensive. That was always the goal, yet Valve made the decision to focus on getting the core competitive experience right and so CS2 launched without some of the features…
Finding Ascendant Chest locations in Destiny 2 is the key step in this week’s Riven’s Wishes quest. If you’ve switched off after finishing the seasonal story, these new weekly quests are a rare opportunity to acquire Wish Tokens, which you can spend on red border weapons from the Last Wish raid, as well as a…
Valentine’s Day looms over the temporal horizon, like a giant soulslike boss just desperate to hug you to death. I can’t say I’ve ever thought V-day and soulslikes had that much in common, unless you’ve got a thing for having the stuffing kicked out of you. But that hasn’t stopped Koei Tecmo and Neowiz sensually…
Gina Carano, who used to play Cara Dune in Disney’s The Mandalorian before being dropped by the show following “abhorrent and unacceptable” posts on social media, is taking Disney subsidiary Lucasfilm to court to get her job back, and (via Kotaku) Elon Musk is funding the suit. Carano was dropped from The Mandalorian in 2021,…
Expected release date: Q4 2024 – Q1 2025Codename: BlackwellNaming scheme: Expected to be the RTX 50-seriesProcess: Rumoured to be TSMC 3nm Nothing stirs up the internet rumour mill quite like the speculation around a new generation of graphics cards, and Nvidia’s next generation GPU architecture, believed to be codenamed Blackwell, is currently the source of…
When AMD’s Athlon K7 CPU was launched way back in 1999, it turned out to be something of an Intel-killer, smashing the heavyweight’s Pentium III CPU. Now it turns out those K7 chips were actual gun slingers, at least insofar as they had bullet-blasting guns etched right into their silicon dies. That’s the discovery made…
Like I’m sure many other PC gamers have done, I read our Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League review with a sense of inescapable inevitability and frustrated, profound disappointment. Here we are again, another previously celebrated game developer seeing its reputation tarnished by a flawed, middling game-as-a-service release that places grind and ongoing play/monetization right…
A private equity company behind the Six Nations Rugby tournament is on the verge of buying RuneScape developer Jagex for a cool £900 million, according to a report by Sky News. CVC Capital Partners is a Luxembourg-based “private equity platform” that “manages €118 billion of assets”. Its investment portfolio includes the Six Nations Rugby Tournament,…