Luigi has been hiding in the source code of Super Mario 64 for 24 years

Xbox Insider Release Notes – Alpha (2402.231127-2200)

Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview coming to the Alpha ring. It’s important we note that some updates made in these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes to the…

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Escape From Tarkov adds Ground Zero, a dense urban area

Extraction shooter Escape from Tarkov dropped a big new update this week, bringing a new urban area, new weapons, a new boss, and a rework of the shoreline area. The big new region is Ground Zero, a major downtown filled with skyscrapers that also includes urban infrastructure like “banks, cafes, restaurants, stores, pharmacies, and so…

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China’s DeepSeek chatbot reportedly gets much more done with fewer GPUs but Nvidia still thinks it’s ‘excellent’ news

China’s new DeepSeek R1 language model has been shaking things up by reportedly matching or even beating the performance of established rivals including OpenAI while using far fewer GPUs. Nvidia’s response? R1 is “excellent” news that proves the need for even more of its AI-accelerating chips. If you’re thinking the math doesn’t immediately add up,…

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Spore devs say the evolution game’s previews were more ambitious than what they were actually making, and they ‘built a fantasy in people’s minds that was unachievable’

Spore is the greatest game that never was. Clear as day, I remember the wonder the pitch instilled in me as a young’un. It was to be a true simulation like The Sims, not just of daily life, but of the history of all life—life as everything from a unicellular amoeba to a spacefaring alien…

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How to break cracked rocks in Grounded 2

While exploring Grounded 2‘s Brookhollow Park, you’ll find various locations, such as caves, that are blocked by cracked rocks. The treasure hunter in all of us naturally wants to know what’s hiding inside, but you can’t break cracked rocks without a very specific tool: explosives. I found one such cave on the western edge of…

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