Embark says the ‘pressure of a monthly cycle’ is holding Arc Raiders back, so it’s slowing down: Major updates will come every 6 months from now on

Embark is slowing down the live service treadmill for Arc Raiders. The hit extraction shooter will now receive major updates twice a year. That’s in contrast to its current run of monthly updates, which have been hit or miss in the seven months since launch. Arc Raiders’ bi-annual updates will be “larger in scale, more…

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The guy who literally wrote the textbook on AI says when it comes to the extinction scenario the human race is cooked: ‘Making these systems more capable… doesn’t seem like a sensible move’

The ongoing Musk vs Altman trial, which centres around Elon Musk’s claim he was deceived by Sam Altman about OpenAI becoming a for-profit company, has seen the disclosure of a slew of documents from various figures involved. These are mostly emails and texts, which show things like how the world’s billionaires are terrified of the…

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Konami belatedly realises hey, we might have something here, as the first properly new Silent Hill in 13 years sells over 2 million

Konami has been gradually easing itself back into the business of making proper videogames in recent years and, as well as reviving the Metal Gear series with the Master Collection and an excellent remake of MGS3, has both remade Silent Hill 2 and co-developed Silent Hill f, the first properly new entry in the series…

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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition review

AMD said it would “simply be too expensive” and that “games would not benefit.” It was, of course, talking about why it had never launched a dual CCD Ryzen desktop processor with 3D V-Cache on both chiplets. There was no technical barrier, just a matter of pointlessness. And yet here we are, with the Ryzen…

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‘What if behind the pointer, there was an AI model’: Google DeepMind wants to reinvent the humble mouse cursor

I don’t doubt there’s some worthwhile application of at least one technology lumped under the monolithic ‘AI’ banner. Unfortunately, big tech’s major players seem preoccupied with reinventing the wheel and introducing an unnecessary agentic twist. Case in point, Google DeepMind’s latest experimental demo attempts to give your humble mouse cursor an AI enhancement. “The mouse…

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