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The Epic Games Store has kicked off its 2023 Holiday Sale, and once again the free games are back—17 of them in all, beginning today with Destiny 2: Legacy Collection, a bundle of the Witch Queen, Beyond Light, and Shadowkeep expansions for Destiny 2.
Destiny 2 is free as a normal thing, by the way, so it’s a whole lot of Destiny for a whole lot of nothing.
The freebies are always the big attraction in the Epic Store’s Holiday Sale, but Epic is also bringing back its reusable coupons, and as it did in the previous Black Friday sale, the discount amount is being bumped to 33% off eligible purchases—that means games, but not DLC, in-game items, or currency. Everyone gets the coupon automatically, and it automatically renews each time it’s used, effectively making i…
The House of Lords communications and digital committee met today with Rob Sherman, VP of policy and deputy chief privacy officer for Meta, and Owen Larter, the director of global responsible AI public policy at Microsoft, to discuss large language models and some of the wider implications of AI. In a far-ranging discussion in which many words were said and not a lot of actual information conveyed, one particular tidbit caught our attention.
When asked directly by the chair of the committee, Baroness Stowell of Beeston, as to whether either company was capable of recalling an AI model if it had been “identified as unsafe,” or stopping it being deployed any further and how that might work, Rob Sherman gave a somewhat rambling response:
“I think it depends on what the technolo…
One of the joys of playing a city builder is peering down at the little people on your screen and watching what they’re doing. Manor Lords is no exception—it’s fun to sit back and observe your little 14th century peasants working in the fields, constructing buildings, and lugging resources from here to there as they go about their daily lives.
With a million Manor Lords players now closely watching the comings and goings of their villagers, one peasant’s name keeps coming up because, well, it’s kinda funny:
Cuntz.
That’s right, a villager named Cuntz has already become a minor celebrity since Manor Lords launched into early access a few days ago. Check your own village and you’ll probably find one, and since names are distributed randomly among your peasants, you…
Tim Schafer, founder of Double Fine Productions and the mind behind games such as Psychonauts, Brutal Legend and Grim Fandango, spoke on AI during an interview with Twitch streamer Cressup earlier this week.
Cressup asked Schafer: “I’m interested as a writer, what are your thoughts on AI and the games industry. Are you worried? Is it a tool you can ever see yourself using?” to which he replied that while he was impressed by the tech, the result left a lot to be desired.
“I [honestly] can’t figure out how they do it, I’ve had it explained to me, I know about machine learning and [neural networks],” he said. “I still can’t believe they’re outputting this writing that looks like human writing. So it’s really impressive on that level.” However, Schafer goes on to say that …
The flagship graphics cards of recent generations have been trending upwards in maximum power consumption. The RTX 4090 can pull more than 450W, the RTX 3090 Ti could do the same, while AMD’s RX 7900 XTX is rated for 355W. Factory overclocked models are typically a bit higher than that. But those are rookie numbers. It’s been reported that Nvidia’s next generation GB200 AI accelerator can pull up to 1,000W.
The source of the 1,000W claim is a statement made by Dell COO Jeffrey Clarke during Dell’s Q4 2024 earnings call (via The Register). He’s as likely to be in the know as anyone, so this 1,000W claim is no mere rumor.
Clarke’s actual quote is “Our characterization in the thermal side, you really don’t need direct liquid cooling to get to the energy density of 1,000 w…
Not content with accelerating graphics performance with AI via its various DLSS technologies and in designing GPUs themselves, Nvidia is now using AI to improve graphics drivers and further boost performance by up to 30%. Well, that’s the latest rumour.
According to CapFrameX (via OC3D), maker of frame time analysis tools, Nvidia is working on AI-enhanced graphics drivers. Performance boosts of up to 30% are mooted, with the average performance benefit a more modest 10%.
CapFrameX reckons we could see the new AI-enhanced driver in the first quarter of this year. If accurate, there’s not long to wait.
Of course, the very notion of what even constitutes AI. An actual machine learning technique? A really good algorithm? A coffee machine that turns on automatically? There …
Sim Wong Hoo, who founded Sound Blaster producer Creative Technology in 1981 and remained at its head ever since, has died. A statement released by the company said Sim “passed away peacefully” on January 4.
Creative Technology—known as Creative Labs in North America—was a groundbreaking player in the early days of PC gaming thanks to its long-running series of audio cards. After initially launching as the Creative Music System in 1987, the famous Sound Blaster line debuted in 1989, and quickly took over the market: Ad Lib, which prior to the arrival of Sound Blaster cards was the effective standard for PC gaming audio, lost so much ground so quickly that it was forced to file for bankruptcy in 1992.
The Sound Blaster series evolved through multiple generations a…
We’ve been very impressed with the new Steam Deck OLED, and it’s a rather lovely thing to behold once you get one in your hands. However, I’ve been spending a bit of time with the original recently and it’s still a fantastic way to bring PC gaming with you wherever you go. It certainly doesn’t feel like an ageing product, and we’ve just spotted the 64GB version has dropped to just $349. That makes it an incredibly cheap entry point for someone looking to get into PC gaming, and may just make those of you on the fence decide to jump into the wonderful world of handheld gaming goodness.
Let’s not forget that the OG Steam Deck gets the same performance as the newer model, so your games will still run just as well on this as they would the OLED version. And while we loved the new scre…
Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chants out between two worlds: Twin Peaks is on PC. Not officially, mind you; I’m talking about the demo for Twin Peaks: Into the Night, a fan game based on the classic David Lynch and Mark Frost soap opera that’s just hit Itch.io.
The demo is free, and you can download and play it right now if you’ve got a spare 500 megs on your hard drive. It’s done in that swimmy, lo-fi PS1 style that’s all the rage nowadays, which actually ends up working very well to capture the off-kilter, dreamy, something-is-seriously-wrong-but-I-can’t-say-what vibes of the original TV series.
“Created as an homage to good old ’90s games classic [sic],” reads the Itch description, “Twin Peaks: Into the Night is a fan game adaptation …