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OpenAI is backing a new animated feature film ‘made largely with AI’ to prove it can make films ‘faster and cheaper’ than Hollywood

A Wall Street Journal report says OpenAI is backing the creation of a new animated film called Critterz that will be made “largely” with AI, in hopes of convincing Hollywood that it’s time to go all-in on AI content creation tools. Called Critterz, the film follows forest creatures who embark on an adventure after their…

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Share of the Week: No Man’s Sky – Creatures

Last week, we asked you to focus the lens on the unique, procedurally-generated creatures of No Man’s Sky. While you hopped from planet to planet, we sifted through your wildest encounters in #PS4share and #PSBlog hashtag. These critters took the spotlight: @TheMaffiamaster captured this leathery striped lizard on a burnt orange planet. This bat-faced bird…

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Kioxia aims to sweet talk SK Hynix into letting the Western Digital merger go ahead, with a new manufacturing deal as the carrot this time around

This is a news story that’s been rumbling along for a good while now. Kioxia and Western Digital, two of the largest SSD and USB memory stick manufacturers in the world, have been repeatedly trying to merge into a single company, except that SK Hynix has blocked the attempt every single time. This time, however,…

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Steam’s latest cozy game has a fascinating backstory: Not only is it a PS1 game that predates the ‘cozy’ era, but it’s only officially available in English thanks to fan translators

Just a hair over two years ago, I wrote about a fan translation of a landmark Japanese PS2 game, Boku no Natsuyasumi 2, making a landmark “cozy” game playable in English for the very first time. We didn’t call games cozy back in the early 2000s, but were it released today, the slice-of-life adventure game…

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Infamous World of Warcraft guild exploits its way to a world first in new Midnight raid until Blizzard says its instant 300 million damage doesn’t count

The first World of Warcraft Midnight raid race is on and Blizzard has already had to disqualify one group of players for breaking the rules. While players from around the world race to gear up and take down the boss Chimaerus in the recently released Dreamrift raid, a guild known as RAoV QA Strikes Back…

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