Skyrim lead designer’s biggest lore regret is *checks notes* one of the coolest things the series has ever done

I don’t mean to overreact, but someone needs to stop Skyrim design lead Bruce Nesmith before I actually start crying. The ex-Bethesda dev’s been on a tear of late, chatting about everything from Todd Howard’s tendency to “seagull” around the studio to his take on why Bethesda shouldn’t ditch its venerable old in-house engine. That’s…

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Blizzard could add more homes per account to World of Warcraft’s player housing in the future, but ‘we have to be conservative at the start with these things’

World of Warcraft‘s player housing system is pretty much great—it offers an absurd amount of freedom, the decor limits just keep going up as Blizzard explores new ways to increase it, and while it sure has taken it a while, the developer seems to’ve learned (from two decades of other MMORPGs trying, failing, and flying)…

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‘We’ve heard from many who want nothing to do with AI’ says Mozilla, as it introduces an AI blocking menu to upcoming Firefox builds

Not everyone is happy with the introduction of AI into… well, everything they use on a daily basis, and it appears Mozilla has been listening. After considerable backlash towards its announcement that Firefox would become an ‘AI browser’ over the next few years, it looks to have changed its tune in recent weeks. Beyond the…

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It looks like XeSS 3 and multi-frame generation can be enabled on older Intel GPUs with the most minor of tweaks, so it’s not just Panther Lake that gets in on the fun

Intel has been keen to talk up the benefits of XeSS 3 and multi-frame generation in recent months, alongside the launch of its very impressive Panther Lake mobile chips and their powerful iGPUs. However, as things currently stand, it’s only officially supported on systems with Xe3-cored graphics chips—i.e. Panther Lake only. Intel says support for…

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OpenAI reportedly isn’t happy with Nvidia’s GPUs while Nvidia’s $100 billion investment plan in OpenAI is said to have ‘stalled’: Is the AI honeymoon over?

OpenAI reportedly isn’t happy with the performance of Nvidia’s GPUs. Meanwhile, Nvidia is having second thoughts about pumping $100 billion into OpenAI. These are the latest rumours around the two biggest players in AI. So, could their unholy alliance be faltering? Last week, the Wall Street Journal claimed that Nvidia is rethinking its previously announced…

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Be Quiet! Dark Perk Ergo review

Competitive gaming gear often isn’t all that exciting. That’s because, like the ill-fated switch to Dvorak or Colemak (if you had to Google that, it proves my point), players get used to a certain standard. You can’t push the boat out too much or overcommit to a single selling point. Most competitive players simply want…

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