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The gaming industry was once famously ridiculed as “just a passing fad” by Michael Moon, an official representative of the board game maker Milton Bradley in 1977. However, that history is proof that is far from the case, with the videogame industry now worth a staggering $200 billion in 2022. Video games have become the ultimate form of entertainment not just for kids, but for adults too, enabling them to fulfill all their fantasies in the virtual world which would be impossible otherwise. Be it Spider-Man and save New York City against the Sinister Six? No problem. Want to be part of the Italian Mob and take on rival gangs in 1930s Chicago? Of course. Video games allow you to be just about anything imaginable. It is due to this that the virtual world of gaming has been highly successful so far, with video games raking in millions of dollars. However, some of them stand above the rest.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 — out next Friday on PS5 — is easily one of our most anticipated titles of the year, building upon Insomniac Games' original blockbuster tale to weave a new line for our spandex-wearing web crawlers. Yep, true to the name, this time we get to play as both Peter Parker and Miles Morales, as they team up to neutralise various new threats to New York City, which include the monstrous symbiote Venom and the beast-like Kraven the Hunter. In addition to refining web-swinging and chained flowy combat — a selling point for 2018's Spider-Man — the sequel has nearly doubled the size of its open-world playground, albeit in ways that traversal never feels tedious.

AI Roundup: Klarna, the Swedish fintech company, introduced a new AI-powered feature that enables users to take pictures of desired items, instantly locating them in the app. In a separate development, Google's employees have raised concerns about the Bard chatbot's effectiveness. Moreover, CCC, a cloud platform serving insurance and automotive industries, unveiled AI solutions for collision repairs, automating initial damage assessments and estimating processes, enhancing service to consumers.

Developer Pathea has recently revealed a new gameplay trailer for My Time at Sandrock, the spiritual successor to My Time at Portia which highlights everything from character customization to how things play out in the open-world and much more. Check out the trailer down below.

Since launching last month, one of the most often-cited irritations with Starfield was the inability to adjust your field-of-view, something considered a must for first-person games these days. Mods have been released that allow players to alter their field of view, but it is something that really should be a standard option, and now it is!

A Starfield Dynamic weather mod has been made available, adding a dynamic weather system to the game with plenty of variation and transitions.

LinkedIn data has revealed a dramatic two-year surge in AI-related job postings; Sony research has revealed an overlooked aspect of skin colour in AI bias testing; Vyzer has secured $6.3 million seed funding for AI-driven wealth management platform; Google Pixel 8 series touts abundance of innovative generative AI features- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.

Final Fantasy XIV Patch 6.5, “Growing Light” is here, with new main scenario quests, Island Sanctuary updates, expanded Duty Support, PvP Season 5, and a new raid, dungeon, and trial.

Intel threw a lot of information at us a couple of weeks ago at its Intel Innovation 2023 event in San Jose, California. The company talked a lot about its manufacturing advances, its Meteor Lake chip, and its future schedule for processors. It felt like a heavy download of semiconductor chip information. And it piqued my interest in a variety of ways.

With most video games, a New Game Plus simply lets players spend more time with a game they enjoy, though it lacks story-based rationalization, but structured its entire main plot around making New Game Plus a part of its story. Most titles take the route of with a New Game Plus, where it might offer players a special weapon or ability, or a harder difficulty mode appropriate to higher level characters. Other titles have used the feature to provide alternate endings and additional story content, but few games have made it the centerpiece of the plot like .

Techland has announced its plans for the future of Dying Light 2.

Stardew Valley is set to receive its 1.6 update soon, and developer ConcernedApe has taken to Twitter to share a sneak peek of what we can expect. Rather than just an update that addresses bug fixes, what's promised is a lot of new, additional content is being added to the game.