Job losses might be likely due to AI but Nvidia’s CEO says the booming billion-dollar industry will always need more plumbers and electricians

The explosion of generative AI over the last few years signals a change in the job market alongside it, and this brings with it worries of job instability and losses. With big players like Nvidia, Meta, X, and the governments worldwide further committing to AI, questions are posed to those at the very top. In…

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World of Warcraft: Midnight’s design director wasn’t sure players would enjoy Delve bosses jumping you, but ‘it turns out people really like that’, so now we’re getting Prey

One of the features I’m most excited for in World of Warcraft: Midnight by far is the ‘Prey’ system. In case you’re unfamiliar, Prey is an opt-in PvE system with three difficulty tiers where you’ll claim a target, and get targeted in turn—with said enemy being able to ambush you while you’re out in the…

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Amazon breaks glass marked ‘AI-powered Snoop Dogg game where he’s a judge’ to get you to pay attention to its wilting Luna streaming service

A cursory search tells me that the last time Amazon’s Luna cloud gaming service graced the pages of this website was in February this year, when our Harvey Randall offhandedly referenced it as “a cloud gaming app that I literally hadn’t heard of until this point”. Before that? 2022—a few months before I even began…

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Fortnite insists it wasn’t stitched up by Warner Bros. and the Peacemaker emote, but is modifying it anyway ‘to avoid any confusion’

Last week, Fortnite pulled the Peaceful Hips emote—which recreated a portion of the opening dance in James Gunn’s DC show Peacemaker—after the latest episode’s bombshell completely changed the context around the movement. After Epic said it would “inquire into our partner’s creative intentions in this collab emote,” it’s now determined that Warner Bros. most definitely…

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‘We will be looking at everything’: Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 devs will be paying close attention to community feedback during the upcoming beta

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7’s beta starts today for those lucky few with early access, while the open beta will begin in a few days on October 5. Expectations may be pretty low—thanks in no small part to Battlefield 6—but even still, the devs over at Treyarch are determined to put their best foot…

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EA could sell off studios after Saudi and Kushner-funded $55 billion acquisition, says former Dragon Age producer: ‘It’s hard to imagine that you’d have BioWare pivot from having very progressive messaging to having the reverse’

Mark Darrah, a former producer at BioWare, has once more taken to YouTube to voice his opinions on the massive EA buyout. Which is more than fair enough, given the guy worked at BioWare for over 20 years, and has seen firsthand what EA’s company culture did to not only his studio, but others. Unfortunately,…

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