AMD Zen 6 server CPUs are launching this month, which has me hopeful for a desktop release this year

Final Fantasy 14’s upcoming Monster Hunter collaboration will ‘feel more like 14’ compared to its more unorthodox Rathalos encounter

Final Fantasy 14 director and producer Naoki Yoshida says the game’s upcoming collaboration with Monster Hunter Wilds will be different from the one it had with Monster Hunter: World, putting a bigger emphasis on the MMO’s mechanics rather than trying to fit an action RPG’s square peg in a round hole. Capcom and Square Enix…

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OpenAI reportedly kicked around an ‘insane’ plan to pit world leaders against each other like a Call of Duty villain

The New Yorker has published an enormous feature about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his disputed trustworthiness, citing more than one person who has accused the generative AI mogul of habitual dishonesty. The 16,000 word article (available online or in The New Yorker’s latest print edition) adds new context to a number of widely-reported episodes…

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Sons of the Forest’s first patch in 6 months is a doozy, adding buildable rafts, a procedural wall system, and fixing more than 100 bugs

Sons of The Forest‘s cannibal-infested woods have been quiet lately. After a wildly popular early access period, it launched in February last year, with developer Endnight Games providing frequent updates over its first four post-release months. Yet the studio has been largely silent since a hotfix in June, with no further updates, announcements, or even…

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This gravity-defying dungeon crawler is basically Legend of Grimrock meets Portal, and while the trailer had me dizzy, the demo made me feel like a genius

There were a bunch of excellent-looking puzzle games revealed at this week’s Thinky Direct, including a new mystery game from one of the designers of the Case of the Golden Idol, and a time-loop based “Metroidbrainia” (a portmanteau that caused me physical pain) which swaps out tool-gathering for puzzle-solving. The game that really stood out…

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