No Man’s Sky updates are going strong with Starfield around the corner

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The AI revolution has taken hold in different ways around the world, with some surprising differences in how each country is experimenting with it.

Perhaps you had lost track of Mythbusters co-star Adam Savage since the show wound down in 2018. Well you’re in luck, because he’s been spreading the joy of art, design, and engineering on YouTube via his channel, Adam Savage’s Tested, for some time now. Would you believe one of the best series of videos that he’s put out in ages features none other than the role-playing game du jour, Bethesda Game Studio’s Starfield?

Uh oh, we've got a bad feeling about this one. Each month, we ask you lot for your thoughts on the latest PS Plus announcements, and we can't wait to hear what you think of September's reveal. We say that because Sony seems to have riled up a lot of PlayStation fans over the last few days, as it unveiled a questionable PS Plus Essential games line-up alongside price hikes for every PS Plus tier. A recipe for disaster, to say the least.

We’ve known for quite some time that Sony, in its current guise, doesn’t care much for its core consumers – but overnight, it proved it. The platform holder nonchalantly announced price hikes to the annual tiers of its various PS Plus subscriptions – and these are significant jumps, not just minor alterations.

As reported by VG247, Starfield already has a routed speedrun under three hours—which is terrifying, since it's not even out of its early access period yet. Heck, widely-used leaderboard website speedrun.com doesn't even open its rankings until September 20, presumably so people can actually play the thing without sweating over skips.

Space is big and, for the most part, kind of dull. The heady thrill of setting foot on planets no human has ever seen aside, most of the celestial bodies in our universe are just big, complicated rocks when you get right down to it. For better or worse, that's a part of reality that Starfield deliberately tries to capture, according to a recent NYT interview (via VG247) with Ashley Cheng, Bethesda's managing director, and Todd Howard, who is Todd Howard.

Bethesda enlisted the aid of a skilled Skyrim modder to add clutter to Starfield's environments.

Luffy and the rest of the Straw Hat Pirates are sailing back onto Netflix in a major way. Netflix released its new adaptation of One Piece on Thursday. Now, long-term and new fans alike will be able to see Luffy and friends make the big jump from animation to live-action adventures.

In the never-ending quest for more eyeballs on its stuff, Bethesda Softworks has enlisted the talents of award-winning pop-rock group Imagine Dragons to create a song for Starfield called Children of the Sky. It's not the worst collaboration between a game studio and mainstream musician I've ever heard, but that's at least in part because I'm old enough to have a clear recollection of something called Hope For the Future.

Starfield‘s launch is closer than ever, and Bethesda has been doing its best to ensure hype levels stay as high as possible. At Gamescom, a new live-action trailer was revealed to get fans into the space exploration mood. You can also be an explorer here on Earth by locating the 1,001 unique ads Bethesda has hidden all over the world.

A week after Baldur's Gate got its first major patch — bringing around 1,000 bug fixes among other things — developer Larian Studios has shared initial details on its next big batch of changes, fixes, and additions, which it says is «just around the corner».