Helldivers 2 devs say players are 'absolutely right to expect better' after latest update's crashes and stumbles—promise mid-October patch and 'better communication'

Helldivers 2 devs say players are ‘absolutely right to expect better’ after latest update’s crashes and stumbles—promise mid-October patch and ‘better communication’

Helldivers 2 is in the “it’s so over!” part of the chart again, unfortunately. Despite its latest patch being a ton of fun, the entire engine is also buckling and groaning under the weight of extreme technical debt. Crashes, bugs, terrible performance, and an ever-balooning file size are all starting to get the game a…

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AI chatbots often can’t read between the lines and commit cultural cringe that even tourists in Italy ordering coffee in the afternoon couldn’t manage

From time to time, I rely on machine translation. From time to time, machine translation reminds me why it can never truly replace human translators—case in point, referring to this VR glove as having ‘vibrator’ touch panels. Large Language Models are trained on many libraries worth of words, spitting out a statistically likely word vomit…

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Hades 2 review

Hades 2 almost had me questioning Supergiant’s decision to make its first sequel. I loved Hades, which brought all of the studio’s past experience to bear on a killer action game for the roguelike curious, but I wasn’t convinced a sequel would be a better follow-up than whatever new idea for a game Supergiant could…

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