Artificial Intelligence To Spark Apocalypse Now? Only In Our Fevered Dreams

Another developer has joined the increasingly long list of companies in the games industry that have companies that have initiated layoffs in the early weeks of 2024, continuing the brutal waves of job cuts that devastated the industry the entirety of last year.

Delicious in Dungeon, the new culinary fantasy anime from Studio Trigger (Cyberpunk: Edgerunners) that premiered on Netflix earlier this month, does a lot in the opening five minutes of its first episode.

On the day the South Korean tech major launched its flagship smartphone series at the Unpacked product launch event in San Jose, California, it also teased a new product   - Samsung Galaxy Ring. This is its latest push into the personal and health fitness segment and here it will come face-to-face with rival Oura Ring. The Samsung Galaxy Ring will also look to take on Apple which is well established in this segment with its wearables gadgets. The new Galaxy Smart Ring packs sensors that the company believes will be enough to persuade consumers to consider it a viable gadget vis a vis the competition. 

Baldur's Gate 3 is still going incredibly strong four months on from launch, with over 130,000 players in-game at the time of writing on Steam alone. But despite its resounding success and wealth of players, only half have finished the first act.

Baldur's Gate 3 has a hidden exploit for Honour Mode that lets you save scum. While the mode typically doesn't let you exit the game without saving, there's a workaround for this, preventing the game from making an exit save, and therefore, letting you go back to a previous save file.

has added Honor Mode for any Tav who wants to test their mettle against the threat of permanent death in the event of a total party kill and bosses with Legendary Actions. The risks of Honor Mode can also make parties reconsider courses of action that they maybe wouldn't give a second thought otherwise. However, that also means that there's the possibility that parties will make decisions that they end up regretting, especially if they result in a total party kill, or drain the group of a lot of resources that could've been saved for other encounters.

PC and microchip companies struggling to get consumers to replace pandemic-era laptops offered a new feature to crowds this week at CES 2024: artificial intelligence (AI). PC and chipmakers including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Intel are betting that the so-called "neural processing units" (NPUs) now found in the latest chip designs will encourage consumers to once again pay for higher-end laptops. Adding additional AI capabilities could help take market share from Apple.

American Truck Simulator's list of confirmed future stops is beginning to pile up; not only has developer SCS revealed trips to Nebraska and Arkansas are on the horizon, it's announced it'll be pulling into Missouri when those two expansions are done.

 A fake photo of an explosion near the Pentagon went viral across Twitter on Monday, and stocks dipped. The incident confirmed what many have said for months: Misinformation is on course to be supercharged as new AI tools for concocting photos get easier to use. 

CES 2024: They don't own smartphones and can't go online, but that doesn't prevent them from being connected: Pets are benefitting from a slew of animal-oriented technology at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. How's Fido feeling? Tracking your dog's steps, detecting its heart problems, knowing exactly when kitty's litterbox has become too full -- it's all possible.

Baldur's Gate 3 recently added a new difficulty called Honour Mode, which is basically an amped-up Tacticain that makes death permanent. You can't roll back saves, so you have to go with the punches. Only 0.1 percent of people have managed to conquer it so far, but one player has found a cheesy strategy to make it a bit easier.

OpenAI boss Sam Altman will not appear at the CES trade show in Las Vegas next week. But the generative artificial-intelligence fever his startup set off last year will be on full display as gadget makers race to find consumer uses for the technology.