Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith said during a congressional hearing on Thursday that the company plans to file an amicus brief next week to show its support for Apple. The news follows a statement made by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates earlier this week, who said he was “disappointed” that media outlets felt…
Bethesda CEO Todd Howard has circled back to the topic of AI, and he’s still as hand-wavey as ever about Bethesda’s use of the tech. He doesn’t dismiss the tech in a new interview with Kinda Funny, but wants to be clear that Bethesda doesn’t use it to generate content, or have any plans to….
Maybe we’ll get one next week..? Metroid Prime 4: Beyond has received a new trailer during the latest Nintendo Direct, but there’s sadly no confirmed release date at the time of writing. Our prediction..? We’ll get one next week when it’s revealed to be a cross-gen game with Switch 2. Here’s hoping, anyway..! Read the…
“Two heads are better than one”. Over the past year, there have been a lot of people online hoping that Retroid — the manufacturer of emulation-based machines like the Retroid Pocket Flip 2 and Retroid Pocket Classic — might soon join the likes of Ayaneo, OneXSugar, and MagicX in releasing a DS or 3DS-style dual-screen…
Straight from the archives! Sonic Adventure, which was originally released on Dreamcast and followed with a DX version on the GameCube in 2003, announced Sonic’s true arrival in the 3D space. To this day, the Adventure series is still loved by many fans of the blue blur, and as part of Sonic’s 35th anniversary celebrations,…
There are a lot of things I’ve enjoyed about switching to Linux, but my second favourite—after the incredible smugness I derive from telling people I’ve switched to Linux—is Luxtorpeda. Luxtorpeda is a clever bit of kit that you can set as a compatibility tool for any game you have on Steam. You just install it,…
Ah, Arrowhead Games, never change—in the continual, eternal cycle of “it’s so over” and “we’re so back”, the Helldivers 2 devs have done a 180-degree turn on their current Killzone collaboration, which was incredibly unpopular for a few important reasons. Namely, because it was a bunch of weirdly expensive kit that’s only available for purchase…
Ned Luke, the actor whose roles include GTA 5’s Michael De Santa, has gone off on an AI company that released an unlicensed voice chatbot based on the character, and succeeded in having the offending bot nuked from the internet (first spotted by PCGamesN). AI company WAME had tweeted a link to its Michael chatbot…
Once you’ve gone OLED, you won’t ever want to go back. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to say that about the MSI MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36? To discover that it ditches the usual shortcomings of Samsung’s QD-OLED tech while capitalising on all that characteristic OLED goodness, including perfect per-pixel lighting and incredible speed?…
There’s something very wrong in the town of Bright Falls. But there’s something quite right with the PS5 game Alan Wake 2, a sequel that infuses the original game’s rich psychological thrills with exciting new settings and gameplay that will appeal to survival-horror fans. Remedy’s original 2010 game was part run-and-gun action game, part horror…