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"We're working to prove that we cannot be broken." STALKER 2 devs tell their story of resilience creating the Xbox, PC sequel amid Russia's Ukraine invasion in new 'War Game' documentary film.

Ahead of STALKER 2's launch next month, a new 90-minute documentary has been released that chronicles GSC Game World's journey to develop the game amid Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine.

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"We had a great discussion with the Xbox team at Square Enix." Xbox leads Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond share pics from their Japanese game dev charm offensive at the Tokyo Game Show

Microsoft's consistency when delivering for Japanese and other Asian gaming markets has been middling at best. However, the firm has maintained a presence at the big Tokyo Game Show for several years now. Is progress finally being made?

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NVIDIA just debuted its new open-source advanced AI model with state-of-the-art capabilities to take on OpenAI's 'magical' GPT-4o

NVIDIA recently unveiled powerful open-source multimodal large language models (LLMs) dubbed NVLM 1.0 with the flagship model, NVLM-D-72B featuring up to 72 billion parameters.

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OpenAI's "collapse" fears reportedly date back to Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever's abrupt departure — beyond recent bankruptcy reports with projections of $5 billion in losses within the next 12 months

The departure of OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever raised concern among top officials in the firm behind the curtains. They reportedly tried to get the Chief Scientist back on the team by extending him a new and possibly lucrative deal, but their efforts were turned down.

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OpenAI raises $6.6 billion from Microsoft and NVIDIA, pushing its market cap to $157 billion — with "the world's dominant AI company worth trillions of dollars" and $11.6 billion in sales vision on the horizon

OpenAI has officially closed its funding round with a $157 billion market capitalization after raising $6.6 billion from many big tech corporations, including Microsoft, NVIDIA, SoftBank, and more.

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The Fallout TV series has crossed an incredible milestone

Amazon MGM Studios, Kilter Films, and Bethesda Game Studios' Fallout TV series has over 100 million viewers, and a second season is still on the way.

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"We have squeezed literally every ounce of everything we could get out of UE4"; Anna Donlon announces that Valorant will move to Unreal Engine 5

Anna Donlon, SVP and head of Valorant studios for Riot Games, has announced that the popular and highly competitive first-person shooter will be ported from Unreal Engine 4 to Unreal Engine 5.

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Palworld is headed to mobile, and its devs have teamed up with PUBG's Krafton to make it so as a Nintendo lawsuit brews: "It plans to ... implement the original’s main fun elements to fit the mobile environment"

Palworld developer Pocketpair and PUBG publisher Krafton are teaming up to bring the game to mobile, even as a legal battle with Nintendo looms on the horizon.

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"Art is dead, dude. It’s over. AI won. Humans lost": A controversial artist is reportedly losing millions of dollars because the US Copyright Office refused to register his AI-generated collection — it lacks 'human authorship'

AI artist Jason M. Allen expressed his frustrations over losing millions of dollars to people who stole his AI-generated work. He is seeking the US Copyright Office to reconsider its ruling and copyright his AI-generated collection.

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A future Minecraft update will let you get killed by creepy trees, and you can play it early starting today

Mojang Studios recently hosted a new Minecraft Live and showed off a future update with The Pale Garden biome and The Creaking mob, and you can play it early today.

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Microsoft Office 2024 gets you new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more, no subscription required

Microsoft Office provides access to the core Office apps without requiring a subscription. Microsoft just released Office 2024, which has a new look and several new features compared to Office 2021.

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OpenAI's "temporary prototype" search tool could be a Google killer as user experience reportedly worsens on mobile devices with "just way too many ads on the page"

Former Google Engineer Arvind Jain says Google is seemingly focused on generating profit, which has significantly impacted its search user experience with ads. New players like OpenAI's SearchGPT could leverage this avenue to give it a run for its money in search.

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World of Warcraft's 'immortality' levelling experience is a bug, with a fix coming soon

Blizzard confirmed to us today that the inability to die in World of Warcraft's new levelling experience is a bug, with a fix rolling out soon to patch their "cheat death" mechanic for new players.

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"It’s been amazing seeing everyone’s excitement," we spoke to World of Warcraft's Morgan Day to talk solo dungeon Delves, upcoming talent changes, and more

World of Warcraft: The War Within is one of the best starts to an expansion in recent memory, with some of the best story delivery the game has seen in years. There are some pain points, though, particularly with Hero Talent balance, Delves, and other aspects of the game. We…

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Easy Anti Cheat isn't playing nice with Windows 11 24H2, but happily you SHOULDN'T be affected by it — here's why

Windows 11 24H2 has an issue on some PCs with Easy Anti Cheat causing BSOD errors, but most gamers shouldn't be affected as Microsoft has implemented mitigation measures for now.

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The best gaming mouse just got a performance upgrade, but existing owners need not worry

Razer just updated its Basilisk V3 Pro with a brand-new optical sensor to make it more performant than ever, but existing owners don't need to worry about upgrading.

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"Bethesda tried to hype this up so much just for it to fall short." Starfield: Shattered Space DLC reviews plummet to 'Mostly Negative' on Steam, and aren't much better on Xbox [UPDATED]

Starfield's long-awaited Shattered Space DLC is finally here, but so far, it's getting very mixed reviews from players.

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California Governor vetos AI safety bill because it "establishes a regulatory framework that could give the public a false sense of security and applies stringent standards to even the most basic functions — so long as a large system deploys it"

California Governor Gavin Newsom recently vetoed an AI safety bill (SB 1047), citing it “falls short of providing a flexible, comprehensive solution to curbing the potential catastrophic risks.”

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Is your Monster Hunter Wilds hype worth 2,000 dollars? This insane Rathalos-themed guitar wantstotestyou.

As part of Monster Hunter's 20th anniversary, Capcom has announced an unexpected collaboration with musical instrument manufacturer Fender to produce a Rathalos-themed guitar that will be released in March 2025.

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OpenAI's bankruptcy flames linger on as Apple wiggles out of its latest $6.5 billion funding round at the eleventh hour — leaving the mantle to Microsoft and NVIDIA

Apple reportedly won't participate in OpenAI's latest round of funding. Its decision to withdraw from discussions to participate in OpenAI's round of funding remains slim at best.

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New on Xbox Game Pass: One of the best card-based games joins one of the best brawlers

Inscryption, Sifu, and more titles are headed to Xbox Game Pass across different tiers in October 2024.

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"We do want to release it on Xbox," Square Enix confirms goal to bring 'Final Fantasy 16' to Xbox

Final Fantasy 16 is heading to Xbox, per plans shared by Square Enix in a new interview. The action RPG dropped the tactical gameplay of previous entries, and has since dropped PlayStation exclusivity for a PC version.

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"If you aren't on Xbox, we'd love to know why." Microsoft Research has opened its program targeting game developers to learn how to improve Xbox's systems

Microsoft Research is one of the firm's most prolific divisions, contributing to some of Microsoft's most profitable innovations. Typically focused on consumers, Microsoft Research has now built a program to focus on game developers, to learn more about Xbox's publishing pain points.

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Score the best Resident Evil games for $8 apiece with this unbeatable bundle deal and start spooky month with peak horror

For a limited time, you can get several of the best Resident Evil games for some of the lowest prices I've ever seen them go for.

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AMD's all-new X870 and X870E motherboards launch: Where to buy the best match for Ryzen 9000 CPUs

All-new motherboards designed for AMD's X870 and X870E chipset features have finally launched for Ryzen 9000 desktop processors. Here are the cheapest boards available on launch day.

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