New World’s Steam page has become a tombstone: You can’t buy it, the image gallery just announces its shutdown, and the reviews are laying into Amazon for killing it

In the wake of “strategic changes” at Amazon that cost 14,000 jobs and drove a stake through the heart of its best-known RPG, New World, the game’s Steam page has become a sort of tombstone for it. Options to purchase the game are gone, the recent reviews are an angry chorus of fans blindsided by…

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A fake livestream featuring an AI-generated, crypto-promoting Jensen Huang was broadcast at the same time as the Nvidia GTC keynote, gaining 5x more live views than the real thing

Nvidia streamed the keynote speech of its latest GPU Technology Conference yesterday—though unfortunately thousands of folks seem to have fallen for a deepfake Jensen Huang extolling the virtues of cryptocurrency instead. Just when you thought the dodgy reuploaders and react channels were bad enough, it turns out you’ve now got to worry about fully counterfeit…

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Not content with dominating the market for AI GPUs, Nvidia is turning its attention to QPUs for quantum computing

AI domination is seemingly not enough for Nvidia. Now the world’s most valuable company is turning its attention to quantum computing. Give it up for the future of “accelerated quantum computing platforms.” At least, that’s how Nvidia’s CEO, he of the signature leather jacket, Jensen Huang sees things. During yesterday’s GTC keynote presentation, Huang explained…

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One of the most shocking moments in Critical Role’s 4th D&D campaign was planned from the jump—yet with enough left to chance that Alexander Ward ‘did leave the table thinking I’d really f*cked up’

Critical Role 4’s Overture is officially all wrapped up, and we’ll be moving onto the three-group, 13-player campaign that’s had me salivating ever since it was announced. As confirmed during the last episode’s cooldown, one of its most shocking moments had been pre-planned. Kinda. As confirmed then—and re-emphasised now—enough was left up to chance that…

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Magical Randy Pitchford summons the ghost of games discourse past, says games ‘Haven’t even had our Citizen Kane yet’

Randy Pitchford, Gearbox CEO, chronic tweeter, and known warlock, has performed his greatest magic trick yet. The magician has resurrected the dead—summoning the spirit of the most tedious videogame discourse of 2010 in a new documentary from Shacknews called 24 ‘Til Launch: The Making Of Borderlands 4. “I love that we’re just getting started,” says…

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Microsoft might be silent, but Halo’s co-creator and Halo 2’s design lead have called the US government’s ‘Destroy the Flood’ analogy comparing immigrants to parasites ‘absolutely abhorrent’

Earlier this week, the official White House account jumped on a tongue-in-cheek post by GameStop to crib some credit for ending the console war. An eye-rolling, but otherwise uneventful AI-generated image of US president Donald Trump saluting an American flag with an incorrect number of stars. A slightly more eventful post happened when the X…

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