One problem with making an Assassin’s Creed game in Ancient Greece, says Ubisoft, is that there just weren’t enough tall buildings for a ‘climbing frame game’

Assassin’s Creed is a game where, in the words of AC Odyssey’s world director, Ban Hall, “verticality is really important.” It’s always been a game about seeing a giant cathedral or something, scrambling up to the top, and then admiring the view before swan-diving off. Even at more of a street level, you’re still constantly…

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Borderlands 4 is hiding more than 200 collectible Marcus bobbleheads in hard-to-reach places, and Randy Pitchford reckons ‘most players will never see any of them’

When Borderlands 4 launches on September 12, some of you may be inclined to rush towards the tallest peaks and the best-hidden nooks and crannies—just to see how much of it you can actually explore. Just like those pioneers who discovered you could gracelessly hop up Skyrim’s seemingly unsurmountable mountains. Gearbox boss and occasional magician…

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The Tales of the Shire system requirements are so light you’ll be able to play it on an actual potato (whether boiled, mashed, stewed, or cooked in any other manner)

Tales of the Shire has been a little divisive so far, and I’m happy to say that the pool of gamers who will be able to form their own opinions after playing the game looks to be quite large. That’s because the minimum and recommended specifications have been released, and it looks like you’ll be…

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‘Western players are getting treated like trash’: Persona 5: The Phantom X global release is being flooded with negative reviews over alleged worse rewards than its Chinese counterpart

I’ve become so accustomed to Hoyoverse’s global gacha releases, I’d almost forgotten that many others are still rocking pretty significant gaps between their Asia and global releases—Umamusume: Pretty Derby just got an English client a whole four years after its Japan debut, and Persona 5: The Phantom X is finally in the hands of the…

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘we don’t have to worry’ about the Chinese military using US chips to improve their capabilities because ‘they simply can’t rely on it’

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sat down with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday to discuss a variety of issues, including the ongoing AI race between the US and China. Zakaria asked Huang about the previous bipartisan consensus regarding the restriction of high-end AI hardware to China, and to speak towards his previous comments that the sanctions…

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RTX 40-series graphics cards can now enable Frame Generation in unsupported games via the drivers: up to a 44% fps improvement in my initial tests

Heads up, RTX 40-series GPU owners, you can now enable Frame Generation on almost any modern game. The latest Nvidia GeForce drivers enable a setting called Smooth Motion, which allows Frame Gen to be enabled even on games that don’t natively support it. This setting was previously limited to RTX 50-series cards only, despite support…

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There’s another golden RTX 5090 made of over 1,000x more gold than the first, and I’m pleased to say it’s absolutely hideous

I actually really like this graphics card. No, really: If there’s one thing I like it’s something that fully encapsulates an age. And if there’s something that sums up 2025, or even the past few years, it’s this fully golden RTX 5090 worth about $500,000 (via Tom’s Hardware). Completely unaffordable, unnecessary, and perhaps most crucially,…

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