Capcom says it wants Mega Man, Devil May Cry, and Ace Attorney to be ‘core IPs’ like Monster Hunter and Street Fighter: ‘[We] recognize the need to grow our pipeline going forward’

Another year, another deluge of business slideshow presentations throwing around phrases like “brand power” and “human capital.” This recent integrated report from Capcom is one to make note of, though, if you fancy yourself a fan of the venerable studio—or at least a fan of Mega Man, Devil May Cry, or Ace Attorney. (Sorry, Demon’s…

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A Red Dead Redemption 2 fan conducted an in-game census to test Rockstar’s historical accuracy and found it wasn’t half bad: ‘It’s videogame-ified in a lot of ways, but not as much you might guess’

Sometimes the cost of a big, open world is lower fidelity in each environment—not so in Red Dead Redemption 2, which manages to be both meticulously constructed and impossibly huge. More than that, Red Dead is a period piece of sorts taking place from 1899 to 1907; but who’s keeping score with all those fussy…

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‘It’s kind of like a blind date’: Fallout 76’s creative director discusses the shaky beginnings of life in Appalachia—’I view the initial launch as really the prelude’

25 major updates later, Fallout 76’s map has expanded its borders, added numerous storylines, and even allowed players to cut off their own noses and bask in the radioactive pools of the Wasteland. It’s certainly something to marvel at now, but it hasn’t always been like this. Fallout 76’s launch has gone down in the…

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Nvidia has built location tracking tech that uses the ‘confidential computing capabilities’ of its AI chips to prevent smuggling, according to a Reuters report

According to a Reuters report, Nvidia has built location verification technology that could indicate which country its chips are operating in, in an effort to prevent its AI GPUs from being smuggled into countries where their export has been banned. According to its sources, the feature is said to be a software option that taps…

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Ever-opportunistic bitcoin miners in the US are reportedly now transforming their crypto farms into ‘AI megafactories’

Apparently, there’s no more money in mining. It’s perhaps not a huge surprise, therefore, to learn that some of the largest bitcoin operations in the US are pivoting away from mining to AI processing. However, some of the details in this megabucks transition are intriguing. Wired has visited just such a facility in the throes…

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Ever-opportunistic bitcoin miners in the US are reportedly now transforming their crypto farms into ‘AI megafactories’

Apparently, there’s no more money in mining. It’s perhaps not a huge surprise, therefore, to learn that some of the largest bitcoin operations in the US are pivoting away from mining to AI processing. However, some of the details in this megabucks transition are intriguing. Wired has visited just such a facility in the throes…

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