4 years after it was announced, Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is finally making its versus mode a reality with a closed alpha: 'We put it on the shelf to marinate for a bit'

4 years after it was announced, Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is finally making its versus mode a reality with a closed alpha: ‘We put it on the shelf to marinate for a bit’

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is getting a versus mode, as announced four years ago at our very own PC Gaming show, no less. Except it’s for real this time. A steam post by Fatshark outlines their mission statements for the mode’s closed beta test on Steam.  “This isn’t the first time we’ve announced Versus; and our…

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Hardcore World War 2 shooter Hell Let Loose is free to play all weekend, and on a 50% discount for the next two weeks

Call of Duty and Battlefield may only occasionally dip into the Second World War these days, with CoD’s most recent Nazi battering entry being 2023’s Call of Duty: Vanguard, while Battlefield hasn’t so much as sniffed an M1 Garand since 2018’s Battlefield 5. But there are plenty of other shooters dedicated to replicating history’s most…

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Fresh from telling laid-off employees to console themselves with AI, Microsoft doubles down by advertising Xbox jobs with pathetic AI image: ‘So tone deaf I hope it is satire’

The rollicking clown car that is Microsoft corporate leadership has outdone itself once again. Earlier this month Phil Spencer said Microsoft’s gaming business has “never looked stronger” as he announced mass layoffs, which was swiftly followed up by an Xbox exec suggesting that affected employees use AI to console themselves. And now? A round of…

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Synology DiskStation DS451play NAS Review

At A Glance (+) Fresh: Accessible in File Explorer; DLNA certified; simple, easy-to-navigate interface. (-) Stale: No HDMI; limited to 32TB; a little pricey. Last week, we took a look at the QNAP TurboNAS TS-451 network attached storage appliance, one heck of an intelligent storage solution that packs four hard drive bays, an Intel Celeron…

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Google search’s AI overviews are awful, but here’s a browser extension that gets rid of them

Among the countless examples of the ever-burgeoning ens***ification of the internet, Google’s AI-powered search overviews rank pretty highly. Verily, I pine for the days of reliable, organic search results devoid of AI slop. But don’t despair. Well, not entirely. For the editor-in-chief of our sister website, Tom’s Hardware, has come up with a browser extension…

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The voice of Shinji in Evangelion says AI voice cloning is ‘heartbreaking,’ calls for Japanese government to intervene

First reported in English by Automaton, veteran Japanese voice actor Megumi Ogata (Neon Genesis Evangelion, Danganronpa, Persona) recently spoke to the website TBS News Dig about AI voice generation and its effect on actors. This comes as the Japanese government is considering a legal framework similar to likeness rights to head off such infringement. Ogata…

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