Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader review

What is it? Mass Effect but isometric, dystopian, turn-based, and not that much like Mass Effect. Release date: December 8, 2023 Expect to pay: $40 Developer: Owlcat Publisher: Owlcat Reviewed on: Windows 11, Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAM, RTX 3080 Multiplayer? Online 6-player co-op Link: Official website We’ve just defeated a cult, foiled a plot,…

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Larian’s dropped some more Baldur’s Gate 3 stats, and at least 33% of you have a lot of explaining to do

Larian Studios collects a lot of data—as plenty of studios do—about their player’s habits in-game, and Baldur’s Gate 3 is no exception. For example, it shared the game’s most-played multiclasses back in September, leading to some interesting insights about how a strong character theme wins out over min-maxing power. Well, it’s time to look at…

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ChatGPT is Wikipedia’s most viewed article in 2023, beating out last year’s ‘winner’ which was *checks notes* Jeffrey Dahmer

Towards the end of each year the Wikimedia foundation collates a list of the most popular Wikipedia articles, and it usually makes for interesting reading as a reflection of what people were generally most interested in learning about in the year nearly passed. This time it’s ChatGPT’s turn to top the tables, and given that…

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Armello studio lays off over half its staff and ‘indefinitely’ pauses development on its ongoing early access game because ‘almost all funding and investment has evaporated from the videogame industry’

One more grim notch for the 2023 games industry meat grinder. Australian indie studio League of Geeks is laying off over half its staff and pausing development “indefinitely” on early access starship management game Jumplight Odyssey. In a statement on Twitter, League of Geeks co-founders Ty Carey, Blake Mizzi, and Trent Kusters attributed the blow…

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A Chatbot from the 1960s has thoroughly beaten OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 in a Turing test, because people thought it was just ‘too bad’ to be an actual AI

A small research group recently examined the performance of 25 AI ‘people’, using two large language models created by OpenAI, in an online Turing test. None of the AI bots ultimately passed the test, but all the GPT 3.5 ones were so bad that a chatbot from the mid-1960s was nearly twice as successful as…

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A cool PvP event in WoW Classic’s Season of Discovery has spiralled into a complete zergfest—with huge swarms of players ending it in minutes

I really like the idea of WoW Classic’s Season of Discovery (SoD)—it’s a genuinely fresh take on what it means to make a classic server. Not just rehashing the old, but remixing it too. In case you haven’t been keeping tabs, WoW Classic’s new seasonal realms will go through a Diablo 4-style cycle of seasonal…

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How to find Nor in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

You are asked to find Nor shortly after arriving at the Resistance headquarters in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. They left the encampment and you need to use your Na’vi senses to find clues and track them down. The start of the quest is simple to figure out, but it’s easy to become disoriented when you…

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