Treyarch is opening up Call of Duty: Black Ops 7’s Endgame extraction shooter to everyone after realising that most people probably won’t finish the campaign

Treyarch has taken some big swings with Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 this year, and while not all of them have landed (what the hell is that giant dude doing in the campaign?), one has done a better job than the rest: the extraction shooter-style Endgame mode. After finishing the campaign, players get access…

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Dispatch proves the death of Telltale-style games was a mere mirage, as it rakes in 2 million players: ‘Wouldn’t be here without you’

Before Dispatch came out, I was pretty confident that the era of the Telltale-style game was in the past; we had a bit of a golden age there, sure, what with The Walking Dead, Wolf Among Us, and the shockingly good Tales From the Borderlands. But after Telltale’s wobble and the shockingly-less-good New Tales From…

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Big AI companies and the people that supply big AI companies are once again investing billions of dollars in one another: this time, Nvidia, Microsoft and Anthropic

A LOT of money is being thrown around in the AI sphere. The latest of these multi-trillion dollar deals comes to us in the form of a new strategic partnership between Nvidia, Microsoft, and Claude creator Anthropic. Nvidia announced the deal on Tuesday, with its two partners making their own announcements simultaneously. Nvidia’s post explains…

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Marathon cinematic director Alberto Mielgo says the 8-minute reveal video was not made with AI and frankly he can’t believe he even has to say that

Marathon is in a flat spin right now, but half a year ago—and despite some bumpiness at Bungie—Sony had high hopes: So high that it hired Oscar-winning director Alberto Mielgo to head up the creation of an eight-minute cinematic short that lays the foundation for the game’s setting and story. It’s very sharp and stylish,…

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After Downdetector itself went down, someone made a Downdetector Downdetector, and then someone made a Downdetector Downdetector Downdetector, and then…

Downdetector is a simple website that tells you whether or not online services like Discord are functioning so that you can determine whether problems accessing them are on their end or on yours. A funny thing happened this week, though: During a big Cloudflare outage on Tuesday, Downdetector itself went down. What do you do…

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