“This Just Didn’t Fit Into My Gaming Lifestyle” – Hideki Kamiya Isn’t Happy About Switch 2’s Lack Of A D-Pad

“In this age of diversity, the manufacturer itself has stubbornly refused”. Nintendo may have originated the concept of the cross D-Pad, but the company has practically abandoned this control method on both the Switch and Switch 2 (although thankfully not on the Switch Lite and Pro Controller), leaving some old-school players feeling a little left…

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Intel CEO laments Nvidia’s ‘extraordinarily lucky’ AI dominance, claims it coulda-woulda-shoulda have been Intel

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has taken a shot at his main rival in high performance computing, dismissing Nvidia’s success in providing GPUs for AI modelling as “extraordinarily lucky.” Gelsinger also implied that it would have been Intel, not Nvidia, currently coining it in AI hardware had the company not killed one of his pet projects…

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Path of Exile 2 Dawn of the Hunt release times

If you’re excited to try out the Huntress class and turn monsters into new spectral minions, you’ll want to know the Path of Exile 2 Dawn of the Hunt release times. This update is the most significant since the game launched into early access a few months back. It adds the game’s first league, but…

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Krafton is now an ‘AI-first company,’ will spend $70 million on a GPU cluster to ‘serve as the foundation for accelerating the implementation of agentic AI’

Earlier this week, Pocketpair Publishing boss John Buckley said his company isn’t interesting in handling games built with generative AI: “If you’re big on AI stuff or your game is Web3 or uses NFTs, there are lots of publishers out there [who will], but we’re not the right partner for that.” One of those partners,…

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Microsoft teams up with Nvidia, AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm to share ‘our dream of bringing console-level GPU developer tools to Windows’

Microsoft has just shared an update to DirectX, labelling it “the biggest wave of new tooling features in DirectX’s history.” The company, alongside major “GPU hardware partners”, has shared its “dream of bringing console-level GPU developer tools to Windows.” Microsoft reports, “AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm have worked closely with us throughout feature development, each…

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Tekken 8’s leaderboard is being dominated by cheaters and boosters but bans are being handed out soon

Bandai Namco and Tekken 8 director Katsuhiro Harada are readying the banhammers, with warnings of rank resets and account suspensions, after players quickly discovered that the leaderboard’s ‘top’ online ranked users were cheating or win trading to inflate their standing. Accusations of win trading to reach a high rank aren’t new to Tekken or fighting…

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