Final Fantasy 14 finally seems like it wants to make content scale to serve casual, midcore, and hardcore players: ‘A deep dungeon for everyone’

As we’ve discussed quite a bit on this very site, Final Fantasy 14 is in a weird spot with its content—a sluggish patch cycle has paired terribly with a somewhat scattershot design philosophy that’s left casual-to-midcore players feeling underwhelmed, and hardcore players with precious little to do in between raids. This came to a head…

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Palmer Luckey wants to know if you’d buy a ‘Made in America’ computer for 20% more than ‘Chinese-manufactured options from Apple’

Palmer Luckey, the previous founder of Oculus VR and co-founder of defence tech firm Anduril Industries, has a question for you: Would you buy an all-American computer from the latter for 20% more than an equivalent Apple machine? Luckey took to X to poll the community at large on their opinions of his hypothetical eaglebox…

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‘Gaslight-driven development’: ChatGPT was convinced this app had a feature it didn’t, so the devs decided to add it in anyway

I must remind myself not to humanise artificial intelligence, but it’s hard not to when it’s out there causing what at least one developer is calling “gaslight-driven development”, where the AI pretends features exist until the developer feels forced to add it. As reported by 404 Media, this is exactly what happened to developers of…

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I tested Nvidia’s AI gaming assistant: it advised me to ‘update’ to old drivers and told me I wasn’t playing a game (I was playing a game), but maybe I should’ve expected that from version 0.1

Nvidia’s Project G-Assist is one of the few times in the last year or so that any of the big gaming companies have name-dropped AI and I’ve actually seen the vision. A chatbot/diagnostic tool that reads your system and gives advice on how to better optimise it seems intuitively like something that could actually be…

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You don’t need to buy a liquid cooler with a screen: Arctic’s Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 ARGB has everything you need, and that’s why it’s our new top recommendation

How long until we end up with a screen included on the cooler for a solid state drive or RAM? It probably already exists. What we can be sure exists are liquid coolers with screens on them. They’re everywhere. I ended up testing many of them in recent months for a big update to the…

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‘You’re going to need more electricity than any human beings ever… Jensen, you’re gonna have to explain that to me someday’ says Trump to Nvidia’s CEO as he rolls out his AI expansion plan

US President Donald Trump delivered the keynote speech at a summit in Washington DC yesterday entitled “Winning the AI Race”, in which he discussed his newly-announced AI action plan. Addressing the crowd on a variety of topics, Trump singled out his apparent disbelief at the power requirements needed to build his AI vision of the…

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