AI in big budget games is inevitable, say dev vets from Assassin’s Creed and Everquest 2: ‘Developers hate it … the money is still going to drive absolutely everybody to do it’

AI’s a thorny subject, to say the least. The big issue with technology is that it advances in waves. There’ll be a very long time where it feels like nothing’s changing much at all, and then suddenly we’re all saddled with something new to irreversibly change our lives. The trouble with these sudden ramps is…

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Blizzard just casually gave players the key to one of WoW’s classic dungeons—the original four-wing Scarlet Monastery—in a halloween event

World of Warcraft’s shaken up its dungeons a lot over the years. One such victim to the wheels of time is the Scarlet Monastery. This dungeon (or these dungeons, I should say, each is their own separate instance) consists of the Armory, the Library, the Cathedral, and the Graveyard.  In patch 5.0.4, these dungeons got…

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The first Intel Meteor Lake handheld gaming PC breaks cover as does the most Nintendo DS PC you will ever see

Emdoor, a PC manufacturer that normally ships rugged systems for industrial use, is joining the portable gaming PC bandwagon with a machine that’s uniquely different from all of the others. Rather than using one of AMD’s all-in-one processors, this device will be sporting a new Intel Meteor Lake CPU. As spotted by Twitter user harukaze5719, Emdoor’s…

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AMD brings Threadripper back to the desktop with a new non-Pro range of monster chips… that I’m going to now call Wallet-ripper

It’s long been expected that AMD would announce a Zen 4-based, Ryzen 7000-series Threadripper Pro family. That announcement date is today. But while Threadripper Pro was expected, less expected was the announcement of the return of non-Pro Threadripper for desktops after killing it in the last generation. AMD has done just that, saying “We hear…

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