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Elon Musk, the entrepreneur behind companies like SpaceX and Tesla, has taken aim at Google's chatbot, Gemini, accusing artificial intelligence (AI) of mirroring the biases and mistakes of its creators.

A former Rockstar Games developer has revealed that one of the "hardest technical challenges" during the development of GTA 3 was due to the PS2's memory, which is why the player wasn't able to fly planes outside of a brief trip in the Dodo.

Decades after it took place, the Chornobyl disaster remains so ingrained in the public imagination that it's easy to forget its terrible real-world consequences. But Chornobyl Liquidators, a new immersive sim set to release in June, aims to delve into some of that history in what developer Live Motion Games calls a "commemoration of the disaster and its victims."

A new questline in 10.2.7 sees players help a night elf lay her family to rest. But when her sister turns out to be an enemy from our own past, it's up to us to decide what happens next.

Only a day after it was claimed we'd driven them back and wiped them all out, the Automatons have returned with a metallic fury. The clankers erupted back onto the Galactic Map and immediately launched an invasion of Cyberstan, the planet housing their creators, the Cyborgs.

The first major decision players have to make in is whether to redirect power to the town of Edgewater or the Deserters at the Botanical Lab. Your ship requires a new Power Regulator to get offworld and your only option is to take it from one of the factions. As part of, you have the opportunity to decide which faction loses out.

Watching episode 12, many viewers are wondering if a Solo Leveling episode 13 release date has been scheduled. Will there be a Part 2 featuring more episodes or has Season 1 ended? Here’s all you need to know.

, as with many RPGs, is all about the choices players make and their consequences. This continued through its expansion,, where players had to make a major decision about whether to side with the Federal Intelligence Agency (F.I.A.)'s sleeper agent, Solomon Reed, or his former netrunner protégé, Song So Mi (aka. Songbird) who seeks to be freed from the NUSA's clutches after being used to tap into the Blackwall for President Myers' personal needs.

Reports of a mysterious affliction infecting the Pawns of Dragon's Dogma 2 players, the AI-assisted NPC companion each player creates, have begun to trickle in. This sinister disease is known as Dragonsplague and affected Pawns will exhibit red glowing eyes, incoherent speech, disobedience, and increased aggression. Letting one into your party can have catastrophic, permanent consequences for your game world and inadvertently spread to others. This is an evolving situation. Vague mechanical spoilers for Dragon's Dogma 2 to follow!

Some moves in actually come with additional effects that are not widely noted in the games, knowledge of which can have an impressive impact on a person’s battling skills and strategy. Battling in games can be remarkably complex at times, with an incredible variety of factors to consider. Despite this, however, it is not always easy to discern all the relevant details, to the point that some features can actually be obscured by the design of the games.

The American Society of Magical Negroes is an uncomfortable film for many reasons — most of them deliberate. The title spells this intention out plain as day. The film’s protagonist, a biracial Black sculptor named Aren (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves co-star Justice Smith), tiptoes through an art gallery — and his own life — as though he were perpetually walking across eggshells, consciously and unconsciously agonizing under the weight and expectations of the white gaze. Incapable of asserting the value of his work as an artist or his worth as a person — or simply unwilling to — he radiates an aura of discomfort that immediately draws the attention of Roger (David Alan Grier), a kindly older Black man who just so happens to be, you guessed it, a “Magical Negro.”

If you've been keeping up with the latest Dragon's Dogma 2 discourse, chances are, you've already heard of Dragonsplague. The contagious in-game illness, which can spread from Pawn to Pawn between players' games, has become a major talking point solely due to how severe its consequences can be if left unchecked. 

A Baldur's Gate 3 player threw away a 92-hour Honour Mode run because they thought they knew better than the Dream Visitor.

Helldivers 2 players are receiving one of two in-game messages: They've either successfully completed the ongoing Major Order, or they failed, and the latter option prohibits them from having sex.

Following Nintendo's decision to sue Yuzu, the popular Switch emulator, and the consequent shutdown of the project (with a massive $2.4 million to be paid in damages), two main forks have appeared: Suyu and Nuzu. While the latter turned out to be vaporware, Suyu is a real project with many dedicated developers behind it.

Halo’s second season ends with the strangest episode the show has ever had. Unlike the rest of the series, which has slow-played every single one of its reveals, carefully rationing them out a crumb or two at a time, the season 2 finale threw just about every major reveal from the first Halo game at viewers in the span of less than an hour. Consequently, it was also probably the most interesting episode the show’s ever had, particularly for longtime fans of the game series.

A Marvel's Spider-Man 2 player has warned others about the dangers of wearing the Symbiote suit in the game's first mission.

Dragon's Dogma 2 will let you permanently kill off NPCs, unlike the first game which had them respawn and recover from death after a week of in-game time.

Fans of Fortnite have been hitting the books in an effort to spin up theories rooted in Greek mythology to try to explain what’s going on in the world of the game. It all started when a giant stone hand appeared in game’s world. This hand, which players call the Titan Hand, came bearing a mysterious locked chest. Players worked together and eventually destroyed the chains locking the box, but doing so came with consequences. It unleashed a fiery pillar of energy onto the land. Now, internet sleuths are trying to solve the puzzle of what happened and its deeper meaning.

I was only 90 minutes intoDragon’s Dogma 2 when I accidentally let a child die.

The Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has issued a second advisory to platforms or intermediaries, asking them to seek explicit permission from the Centre before launching Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, under testing, in the country.

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The climax of sees Ganondorf sacrifice his mind in a final attempt to reign supreme, but this isn’t the first time magic has left him without his mind. Throughout his many appearances in as both Ganondorf and Ganon, the King of Evil has found himself in a wide variety of circumstances, but he has always striven to attain power. However, not every scheme to empower him comes without its downsides, as exemplifies.

Skull & Bones has kind of proven to be the disaster that many thought it would be, having launched to some pretty dismal reviews and an even worse user rating on Metacritic. None of this is good for a game's launch, particularly one as heavily criticized as this one was in the run up to launch, and it seems like Ubisoft may be feeling the consequences, as Skull & Bones is reportedly struggling to build up a substantial player count.

Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra are not the same show. Fans — of both or just either — have long known this to be the case; almost immediately, Korra’s delightful, brash cockiness immediately offset her from Aang’s childish wisdom. Both shows immediately bring in villains who want to snuff out the Avatar once and for all, but they play them totally differently.

Xbox Game Pass is getting several new additions in the coming month, including Bluey: The Videogame andMadden NFL 24. 

Whether you've fully completed or simply stepped away from Skyrim, it'll hardly surprise you to learn that there are still Skyrim mods out there being developed. One such mod, which is still yet to be released some ten or so years after its conception, is Lordbound.

After being delayed by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, The Handmaid's Tale season 6 finally has a production and release window.

It seems that whenever something becomes popular, AliExpress isn’t far behind and knock-off merchandise can be ordered across the globe. Palworld, it seems, is no exception to this law of the internet and this has frankly terrifying consequences.

Just when fans thought Rockstar's much-anticipated GTA 6 launch may be edging closer, a recent financial insight suggests a more defined timeframe for its arrival. The sequel to the wildly successful GTA 5 was formally acknowledged by Rockstar as being in development, accompanied by a tempting glimpse in the form of the first trailer unveiled in December 2023. However, since then, details have remained scarce, with only cryptic hints offered within the video. And now some parent company Take-Two Interactive Software data is suggesting a delay in GTA 6 launch.

A Baldur's Gate 3 player managed to have some of the worst luck we've ever seen, leaving them dead before they were even able to leave the starting room.

Obsidian Entertainment is hammering away at its fantasy-with-firearms roleplaying game Avowed, due this year, which the developers hope can surpass the "black-and-white" moral binary.

The popular streaming platform Twitch has recently issued its eighth ban to Amouranth, a well-known streamer boasting over 6 million followers. Surprisingly, the community's reaction has taken a light and humorous tone. Many members express a prevailing belief that Amouranth's return to Twitch will be swift, giving rise to playful banter and jokes about the expected predictability of her reappearance on the platform.

Obsidian Entertainment has been heavily emphasizing player choice and freedom in the lead-up to its first-person fantasy roleplaying game Avowed. In line with that you're-the-center-of-the-universe message, the developers have revealed that there's "no one perfect build" in its classless RPG. 

After countless delays, it seems Skull and Bones is actually launching for real in February, and to solidify that fact, Ubisoft has announced the details of the game’s open beta. Said beta will available on all platforms from February 8 to February 11. Crossplay will be enabled and your progression will carry over to the full game. Players will be able to explore the Red Isle hub and the coast of Africa and East Indies regions and your pirate Infamy will be capped at level 6. Meanwhile, here’s an updated rundown of Skull and Bones’ PC requirements (click the image for full resolution).

Call of Duty's anti-toxicity voice chat moderation system has detected more than two million accounts that are being investigated.

In the last few years, artificial intelligence (AI) has grown by leaps and bounds. New AI tools have also surfaced, that make light work of tasks like image generation, and copywriting. One such AI-powered tool that aims to automate your social media content creation, AI marketing and ad copy is Copy.ai. However, if this tool doesn't suit your needs, then you can look at its alternatives which promise to fulfil the same purpose of AI-powered tool automated content creation. Know 5 Copy.ai alternatives including Rytr, Writesonic, Anyword, and more.

Pocketpair’s open-world creature collecting and survival game Palworld, unofficially dubbed by the internet as ‘Pokémonwith guns,’ released in early access on Steam and Xbox Series X|S today (January 19), and it’s already proven to be exceptionally popular.

Xbox is laying out its road ahead with the Developer Direct 2024. Obsidian started the show today, sharing some new looks at Avowed as it heads for a Fall 2024 window.

The Lost Legends of Redwall: The Scout Anthology and The Lost Legends of Redwall: Feasts and Friends have been delayed once again to February 20, 2024.

Frostpunk 2 looks like it's even more stressful than the original city-builder. 

In an unexpected twist, renowned singer-songwriter T-Pain has unveiled his involvement in the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA 6) project with Rockstar Games. However, this exciting opportunity comes with an unforeseen consequence that has left fans questioning the intricacies of the gaming industry.

In the grim darkness of the far future, you're not rewarded for being good, and many think that should be the case in games, too.

What is it? Mass Effect but isometric, dystopian, turn-based, and not that much like Mass Effect.

Half Mermaid Productions has announced thatImmortality, its interactive movie trilogy, is finally coming to PlayStation 5 on January 23.

The voice actor who played Abby in The Last of Us 2 has responded to HBO's casting of the same character for the second season of the TV show, and she's just as excited as we all are.

It’s always nice to think that certain industries are “above harassment” or other things that have weighed down our world. But, sadly, that faith is rarely rewarded. The places and companies that should be the most “sound of mind” sometimes turn out to be the most corrupt or have some of the most hate-filled people around. For example, the video game industry is full of horror stories about the working conditions of certain places and the abuses made by those in power. And that says nothing about gamers themselves. But in the case of Activision Blizzard, they had an issue that was so grand that it resulted in several lawsuits, and those suits keep on coming.

ASRock has announced a pair of new ultra-fast LCD gaming monitors for CES, one hitting 520Hz the other 400Hz.

The combination of horror and Western is a surprisingly untapped resource. Aside from notable exceptions like Red Dead Undead Nightmare and Bone Tomahawk, this mixture of genres doesn’t get used anywhere near as often as it should. Hyperstrange’s Blood West is the latest to take advantage of the heady mix of high noon and darkest night and does so in a way that surprised me many times.

Baldur's Gate 3 is a massive game, which makes for a wonderful experience filled with unexpected story beats. Unfortunately, this also means there are some bugs that are still kicking about, even after several patches.

Garena Free Fire Redeem Codes for January 4: The rewards for Booyah Pass are now live in Garena Free Fire. It was rolled out on January 1, and the rewards will be live until January 31 in the game! This month's theme is Electri City. It is just one of the events rolled out in Garena Free Fire. The M1917 Crowned Conqueror skin in Garena Free Fire is also being offered as part of the Winterlands celebrations. Consequently, players can get their hands on the M1917 Crowned Conqueror skin for free. But if you wish to grab the Booyah Pass rewards, check out the details here.

Garena Free Fire Redeem Codes for January 3: The Winter season is upon us and several similar-themed events have been rolled out in Garena Free Fire by its developers. The Winterlands: Frostfire event, which was introduced a few weeks ago, brought a revamped Guild system, meaning players can play matches with guildmates and earn Activity Points. Meanwhile, you can also participate in the Guild Wars and win bonus rank points. The Bermuda map also received a makeover and is now covered with snow. While most of these items only provide a cosmetic advantage, they can help your character stand out from the millions of other Garena Free Fire players around the world. In a new event, Garena Free Fire players can obtain the amazing M1917 Crowned Conqueror skin for a limited time! Know how.

Cutting-edge chip manufacturing machines from Dutch semiconductor giant ASML have been blocked from export to China, according to the firm, amid a report of US pressure in the strategic sector.

Runaway artificial intelligence has been a science fiction staple since the 1909 publication of E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops, and it rose to widespread, serious attention 2023. The National Institute for Standards and Technology released its AI Risk Management Framework in January 2023. Other documents followed, including the Biden administration's Oct. 30 executive order Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence, and the next day, the Bletchley Declaration on AI Safety signed by 28 countries and the European Union.

The fate of Rubicon rests in your hands. No pressure. Armored Core 6 is far more than just fun mech battles. It has a deep and branching story, with three whole different endings to unlock depending on the choices you make from mission to mission.

Overwatch 2 launched on Steam this year, making it the first time that the series has been available to purchase on the platform. However, this also coincided with several controversies surrounding the game, so when it wasn't too surprising to see that it was immediately review-bombed.

The increasing use of AI in gaming draws ambivalent responses. While some appreciate it when used in the right context, others complain that it lacks the artistic flair that only humans can bring. Date Ariane’s creator, Ariane Barnes, has been warning of the possible harms of AI in gaming all year, and it hasn’t stopped in December.

The Samsung Galaxy S24 series launch is just a few weeks away, and this is set to end a year's worth of rumours and leaks. According to reports, the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event will likely occur in mid-January. Continuing the trend, three models are expected - Samsung Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24 Plus, and Galaxy S24 Ultra, and the latter will again compete with the likes of iPhone 15 Pro Max to earn the position of the best smartphone of the year. While leaks have previously hinted that the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra could feature satellite connectivity, which the iPhone 15 Pro Max does, it isn't likely to be the case for Samsung, according to a new report.

While artificial intelligence (AI) is capable of transforming societies in positive ways, it also presents risks that need to be better understood and managed, new research has warned. Joe Burton, a professor at Lancaster University, UK, contends that AI and algorithms are more than mere tools used by national security agencies to thwart malicious online activities.

For the most part, Percy Jackson and the Olympians executive producer Jonathan Steinberg says that the team behind the new Disney Plus show wanted to keep the story the same as it is in the books. But there is one big change the show makes in the third episode — and it alters Percy’s view of the gods, while adding more nuance to how they fit into this world.

Though they’re wildly different games on the surface, Alan Wake 2 and Spider-Man 2 are sequels representing massive achievements for their respective studios. In an IGN interview, Remedy’s Sam Lake and Insomniac’s John McAdam discuss some of the intricacies of game development, and how they dealt with having two protagonists.

Amid growing concerns over deepfakes, the government has directed all platforms to comply with IT rules, as companies have been mandated to inform users in clear terms about prohibited content, and cautioned that violations will attract legal consequences.

Fallout London, the 'DLC-sized mod' for Fallout 4 from Team FOLON, has received a new deep-dive trailer and release date of April 23, 2024 - a bit less than two weeks after the premiere of Prime Video's Fallout show.

It’s finally time: the last new TV of 2023. Whether you’re at work or not, this week tends to be a pretty sleepy one, ideally with plenty of time to catch up on new TV.

Over the past few years, humanity has become very technologically dependent, heavily reliant on devices for professional and personal purposes. Now, technologies such as Artificial intelligence and machine learning are even deciding the way we function by bringing in various advances, changing even national cultures globally. While most of these changes are positive, there are some people who are misusing these technologies to manipulate and scam people. One such growing concern that has emerged in recent times is in the form of “Deepfakes” - photos, videos, audio and more. We have seen several cases of fake videos and images of famous celebrities being manipulated to show them in poor light or send the wrong message.

Following the massive ransomware attack against Insomniac Games, Ubisoft was apparently targeted by hackers who tried stealing almost 1 terabyte of data.

Just like Dungeons and Dragons, the real adventures in Baldur's Gate 3 always seem to happen in the small little moments in between the big story beats. With so much content to wade through, it's all too easy to miss side quests that can make your journey easier or reveal new bits of lore.

Time and again, Apple Watches have been credited with saving the lives of the wearer by alerting them of potential health anomalies. Consequently, it has become one of the most crucial pieces of wearable technology that you can buy in recent years. Recently, Apple has come under heavy fire for a patent dispute with Masimo. This has resulted in a ban on the sale of Apple Watches in the US. However, this hasn't stopped the Cupertino-based tech giant from innovating. A recent report has suggested that the Apple Watch Series 10 might involve a major design overhaul that would render the old Apple Watch bands useless. Know about this latest development about the Apple Watch Series 10.

Cyberpunk 2, codenamed Orion, may feature grander branching storylines determined by the player's starting life path, which were Street Kid, Corpo, and Nomad in Cyberpunk 2077.

Sony is taking legal action against the people who downloaded the Marvel’s Wolverine build.

Wordle was a lockdown phenomenon: one of those games that, merits aside, simply landed at the right time. I've kicked the habit now but like pretty much everyone else I had a Wordle phase with the family WhatsApp group and, yes, when I'm nearly out of chances I have gone running to my six-letter friend Google. Wordle's enormous popularity was such that, in January 2022, the New York Times purchased the game from creator Josh Wardle for a sum «in the low seven figures.»

If you are trying to solve December 20th’s answer, you should know in advance that the answer contains a repeating letter, making it harder to guess the answer in less than six attempts. Since there aren’t specific hints for repeating letters in, there is a good chance that you might lose your daily streak before you discover their correct positions.

I am unreasonably excited for Streets of Rogue 2, the follow-up to 2019's best immersive sim in which you could play a vampire, hacker, gorilla or bartender, which means I've been eagerly devouring information about it ever since it was announced in October last year. Lucky for me, then, that developer Matt Dabrowski is kicking off a series of devlogs giving a look at the game's features, inspirations, and, naturally, development.

It's been three weeks since Baldur's Gate 3 added Honour Mode, a new difficulty more punishing than Tactician. Tougher bosses, smarter AI, and most importantly, one save file. Mess up a roll? Face the consequences. Die? Start over. It's gruelling, but pushing through earns you an achievement and some swanky golden dice.

Following his departure from Konami, Hideo Kojima launched an independent career. It seems to have been a smart choice though, as he recently revealed, it wasn’t easy to convince others that it was possible.

Arkane Lyon looks to be building Marvel’s Blade on the same game engine as Deathloop’s.

Activision Blizzard King is looking to settle its lawsuit under the California Civil Rights Department.

Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 is getting called out for its Glamrock Freddy jumpscare, which some have called the "worst" in the modern era of the series.

The Indian government has issued a critical alert to users of Samsung smartphones across the country, urging them to swiftly update their handsets in response to identified security vulnerabilities. The advisory, issued by the Computer Emergency Response Team of India (CERT-In) highlights a threat to Samsung devices operating on Android versions 11, 12, 13, and 14. These vulnerabilities, if exploited, could potentially allow unauthorised access to sensitive data on these devices.