The Like a Dragon (previously known as Yakuza) series has been a mainstay of Steam Decks and budget rigs thanks to solid compatibility and the Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii system requirements are no different. Shiver me timbers! Over on the Pirate Yakuza Steam page right now (via RPG Site), you can spot…
The United States’ Defense Department has announced the award of a $200 million contract to xAI’s Grok, the chatbot most recently in the news for declaring itself “MechaHitler” and going on bizarre rants about anti-White oppression. What could go wrong! The news came alongside xAI’s announcement of “Grok for Government,” a toolset that lets agencies…
A new report by IGN into the wider topic of industry layoffs, which are worse than they’ve ever been, contains a fascinating insight about one of last year’s less-successful AAA titles. Immortals of Aveum was the debut title from Ascendant Studios, released on Steam and consoles in August 2022, came out to mixed reviews and…
Ashes and APIs When last we looked at Ashes of the Singularity, it was one of the first DX12 titles with a benchmark that we could test, but it was also very early. Six months later, the second playable race is in place, and Oxide has had a lot more time to work on refining…
Enter today. If you’re a Metroid fan and happen to be located in the United States or Canada, Nintendo is currently running a Metroid Prime ‘Legacy Sweepstakes’ featuring a “bounty” of prizes. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Like so many stories steeped in organized crime, that of Lincoln Clay is complicated. Once an orphan, and now a veteran of the Vietnam War, Lincoln returns to his life in New Bordeaux (a fictional interpretation of New Orleans) and soon falls in with his old gang. When that gang is betrayed by the Italian…
An engineer toying around with ChatGPT found OpenAI’s apparently world-leading LLM getting a little bolshy about how it would do at chess. In fact, ChatGPT itself asked Citrix engineer Robert Caruso to set it up against a basic chess program to see “how quickly” it would win: and then proceeded to get battered by an…
The arrival of Assassin’s Creed Origins on October 27 will mark a significant milestone for the series. Not only will the game explore an intriguing new era of history and tell the story of how the Assassin Brotherhood was formed, it will also release almost 10 years to the day after the first Assassin’s Creed…
On December 1, Bandai Namco released an assortment of Elden Ring Nightreign player statistics to celebrate the release of The Forsaken Hollows DLC. There are some interesting omissions, like the popularity of each nightfarer (but we can extrapolate from the data we do have), as well as some surprising reveals. The biggest shock for me…