Helldivers 2 CCO Johan Pilestedt says the industry’s got it backwards by putting features over fundamentals: ‘We talk way too little about the core philosophy’

Helldivers 2’s runaway popularity last year was, in part, due to just how focused it felt—while other games might bombard you from orbit with a silo of microtransactions, features, menus, and stats, Helldivers 2 basically said, “Hey, do you like shooting bugs? You wanna scrap some robots? Here’s a bunch of guns to do just…

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ChatGPT faces legal complaint after a user inputted their own name and found it accused them of made-up crimes

AI ‘hallucinations’ are a well-documented phenomenon. As Large Language Models are only making their best guess about which word is most likely to come next and don’t understand things like context, they’re prone to simply making stuff up. Between fake cheese facts and stomach-turning medical advice, disinformation like this may be funny, but is far…

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‘There might be a party. I wasn’t invited,’ says Jensen Huang of the rumoured TSMC proposal to join forces and run Intel’s chip fabs

Given the year Intel’s had, it wasn’t the biggest surprise when there started to be talk of the company selling off its manufacturing division or even the whole shebang. It was, however, a little surprising when there were reports that TSMC was proposing joining with Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom to run Intel’s chip fabs. It…

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Samsung 9100 Pro 2 TB SSD review

It’s been 21 months since the first PCIe five drives arrived with us. 21 long months, since the Crucial T700, the Gigabyte Aorus, and similarly specced SSDs landed on our shores, delivering outstanding sequential performance, tiny fans, and eye-watering price tags to match. Since then we’ve seen iteration on iteration, price drop on price drop,…

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Over 110 players and 10,000 units clash as this free RTS celebrates its growing multiplayer scene with some of the biggest multiplayer battles ever fought

What’s the largest match you’ve ever played in an RTS? 4v4 battles can be pretty big. 16 or even 32 players are pushing into the realm of the absurd. But how about 110 players trading artillery fire and nuclear missiles? That’s just unreasonable, and a fitting showcase for Beyond All Reason, an increasingly popular free…

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Balatro’s first demo could be edited with Notepad to unlock the whole game—the solution? ‘Bury it as soon as possible’ with a ‘newer, shinier version’

Balatro, as you might have heard, is a bit of a popular videogame. Just a smidge. Having tidied away over 3 million units and snagging Game Awards wins by virtue of being a really solid little card roguelike. I know this because I blinked and it had stolen 46 hours of my life—and, to several…

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