Witcher 3’s heaviest scene stunned its devs into silence, but Cyberpunk 2’s associate director says it was crucial for ‘understanding the craft’ of quest design

In the event you have not yet gotten around to 2015’s best singleplayer game, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, then beware—spoilers await you ahead. If you have gotten around to it, then you’ll be agonisingly aware of its most harrowing scene. After spending so long searching for Ciri, Geralt and the gang are (relatively) safely…

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‘Every single frontier model company will jump on Vera Rubin from the get go’: Nvidia CEO insists the future looks bright

It’s hardly surprising that there was almost no mention of the gaming side of the business in Nvidia’s latest quarterly earnings call. The company has been riding high on all things AI for several years now, to the tune of a $5.41 trillion market capitalisation as I write this. Unsurprisingly, CEO Jensen Huang is excited…

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It’s the year 2026, and New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani will be streaming regularly on Twitch starting today

It’s the 21st century, which means—er, well, all sorts of existential horrors. But it also means that the media landscape, a term I typically shudder to use but is genuinely applicable here, has changed. A lot of the younger generations get their news from social media and streaming platforms, including online personalities—and archetypically, the government…

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I’ve played 1000s of hours of Overwatch but it wasn’t until its new Anniversary game mode that I discovered I have no clue what the hell I’m doing

Week two of Overwatch’s 10-year anniversary celebrations kicked off with more challenges, loot boxes, and a gamemode for us to try out. Instead of the OG mode that players got to check out last week, this time we’ve got a play on Mystery Heroes, the mode where each player gets a random hero when they…

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SpaceX has listed Grok’s ‘spicy’ mode as a risk in its initial public offering: ‘These modes may be more irreverent and harsher than our standard offerings’

SpaceX has submitted filings for an initial public offering (IPO) with the SEC, a process that might make its majority owner, Elon Musk, the world’s first trillionaire. An important part of such a filing is listing the risk factors that may potentially impact the business—and xAI’s Grok gets a mention. “Certain of our AI products,…

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Security researcher describes freshly uncovered Windows 11 vulnerability as ‘one of the most insane discoveries I ever found.’

A security researcher going by the GitHub handle Nightmare-Eclipse disclosed a potentially nasty BitLocker bypass in Windows 11 earlier this month. Dubbed YellowKey, the exploit allows an attacker to read the contents of a BitLocker-encrypted drive by abusing standard behavior of the Windows Recovery Environment. Nightmare-Eclipse adds that, as far as their testing is concerned,…

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