A Fisherman’s Tale Comes to PS VR This Year

Ready or Not’s review bomb campaign may have been short-lived, as player count subsequently doubles on Steam and it tops PlayStation’s pre-order list

Ready or Not, the gritty, realistic SWAT experience, is currently sat at Mostly Negative on Steam, as players gathered to protest changes made to adhere to stricter console standards over the last couple of weeks. But despite all the angry reviews and comments, it doesn’t look like Ready or Not has suffered any lasting damage….

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5 Ways Hookbots Aims to Save Couch Multiplayer

Couch multiplayer games are taking back their golden spot in gamers’ living rooms, gathering friends again around your console. Hookbots is a good example of an indie-developed party game that’s making couch multiplayer hot again. Here are five ways they’re doing it. 1. Up to 14 game modes Tree Interactive, the indie studio behind Hookbots,…

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Google says its new algorithm reduces AI memory overhead by 6x which could be good news for the RAMpocalypse but bad news for Micron and co

Other than the AI bubble bursting or hype dying down, the other thing that could allow the RAMpocalypse to ease off is a technological change that leads to a dramatic reduction in how much memory AI needs. To that end, Google has cooked up TurboQuant, a new compression algorithm that promises to reduce memory demand…

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‘He’s just gonna show up one day and say, here’s 100 new jokers:’ Balatro’s publisher doesn’t know how big the 1.1 update will be or when it’s coming

“Of the new jokers being added to Balatro, which is your favorite?” This was my incredibly lame attempt to extract a little classified information about the upcoming Balatro 1.1 update while talking to Wout van Halderen, the communications director at Balatro’s publisher, Playstack, when we talked at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this…

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Best PW5A3 loadout in Battlefield 6

I don’t know why, but there’s nothing more tactical and cool than an MP5, and in Battlefield 6, that’s the PW5A3. Not to be confused with the much faster firing PW7A2, based on the MP7, the best BF6 PW5A3 loadout is just a tad slower and more methodical. The PW5A3 is certainly a strong early…

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