The president of Sony Honda is allowed to drive an electric car on-stage with a DualSense yet I’m not allowed to play games while I drive. Typical

Sony’s CES 2024 presentation might not have delivered in the way some might have hoped, with no news of the much-rumoured PS5 Pro, but that didn’t mean it didn’t have its moments of excitement. Enter, Sony Honda Mobility president and COO Izumi Kawanishi, who livened up proceedings by driving a car onstage with a Sony…

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‘No machine will ever replace his genius’: The daughter of late comedian George Carlin speaks out against a ghoulish AI-generated comedy special, which was likely edited by real people anyway

Earlier this week, a new special from stand-up comedian George Carlin was posted to YouTube—which is concerning, seeing as he died in 2008. Titled “I’m Glad I’m Dead“, the special was allegedly created, edited, and posted to the Dudesy YouTube channel by an AI. At least that’s what the core conceit of the Dudesy podcast…

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Starfield data miner uncovers fossilized remains of a much cooler, more hardcore game tucked away in its files: ‘We had a washed version of the game’

Space travel in Starfield is pretty easy. Remarkably easy, actually. You just bring up the map, click a dot and go. Sure, some things might be out of immediate jump range, but if all the yawning void of the cosmos has to threaten me with is “mild inconvenience,” then I’m gonna complain that documentaries like…

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After 10 years, Titan Forge unveils Smite 2, bringing the god-battling MOBA to UE5 and offering goodies to old-timers

Prepare to be smote. Smited. Smitten. Look, they’re making another Smite—Titan Forge’s godly and enduringly popular MOBA that first released in 2014—and it’s gearing up for an alpha test, should you wish to rage against the heavens as soon as possible. Revealed at the Smite world championships, Titan Forge is pitching Smite 2 as “everything…

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Valve continues to improve the gaming performance of Linux open source drivers for AMD GPUs, as part of the Mesa project

Mesa is a long-running project that started life as an open-source driver, bringing the OpenGL graphics API to a host of different platforms. Today, developers from AMD, Google, Intel, and others all take part. One of the most well-known Mesa drivers is RADV: A Vulkan-based driver specifically for AMD’s GPUs running on a Linux operating…

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The nicest community in gaming has over 8 million members and an urgent friendly fire crisis as Deep Rock Galactic releases its 2023 stats

By all accounts, space-dwarf mining sim Deep Rock Galactic has one of the last positive communities left in all of videogames. There’s something about rambunctiously stripping the galaxy of resources as a squad of stout ‘n’ shouty guys that brings out the best in people. That must be why—per developer Ghost Ship Games’ own 2023…

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