Final Fantasy 14’s latest patch makes surprise nerf to an arduous 9-year-old dungeon grind, and I hope there’s more like it to come

Final Fantasy 14‘s patch 7.31 releases today—and while you can usually set your watch to these updates (we’ve known there’d be a new relic weapon step and a new cosmic exploration planet for a while), it’s always nice when Square actually does something surprising. Tucked away in the patch notes, Creative Studio 3 has majorly…

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Nvidia says AI models lack ‘common sense’ so it’s drafting in good old fashioned human beings to give them a pop quiz

Well, you heard it here first: Nvidia admits AI models generally lack “common sense.” I mean, obviously this is far from some earth-shattering revelation—anyone with eyes on this news story knows not to put glue in their pizza sauce, but that hasn’t stopped Google’s AI overview from suggesting you add a dollop to make it…

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Magic: The Gathering’s Spider-Man set is full of Spider-Verse Spider-Folk including the superhero identities of Peter Parker’s alternate-universe wife and daughter

It’s wild to think how influential Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions was. The actually pretty good videogame from 2010 gave us a meeting of four alternate Spider-Mans, though that wasn’t enough for one its writers, Dan Slott, who thought it would be better with all of them. That inspired him to write the crossover Spider-Verse, which in…

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Blizzard filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against one of World of Warcraft’s biggest private servers, but the team behind it is putting on a brave face: ‘Challenges come to us often, and each time we are prepared to face them’

If you’ve played an MMO for very long, you’ve almost certainly heard the siren song of the private server. These fan-operated servers come in all varieties—some keep dead games alive, some provide a window to a past build of an aging game, and some have even gotten the green light to keep going from the…

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Delays to escape the shadow of a launch like Silksong are about way more than just day 1 players: ‘Every game has to fight and use whatever edge they’ve got available to stay visible’

The number of games that have scurried away from Silksong’s surprise September 4 launch date in the past week have given it the air of a mini GTA 6: an event seemingly so all-consuming that no game stands a chance of competing. But what does competing mean, exactly, when the game in question is a…

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