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Nvidia's supremacy in building computer chips for artificial intelligence has chilled venture funding for would-be rivals, investors said, with the number of U.S. deals this quarter falling 80% from a year ago.

One of the biggest additions of Patch 10.2.6 was the Good Boy's Leash, giving Taivan as a mount. Taivan was a very big mount for dog standards, almost as big as a mammoth mount, but he has received a nerf overnight — He is now much smaller. Looking for tips on how to obtain Taivan? Then check our A World Awoken achievement guide! A World Awoken Dragonflight Meta-Achievement Guide — Taivan Mount Taivan became a fan favorite of players in Dragonflight due to the questline we meet him in, in the Ohn'ahran Plains.

Artificial intelligence will become an important part of Reddit Inc.'s business, the company said Thursday in its long-awaited filing for an initial public offering — tapping into a revenue stream that could be both lucrative and controversial. 

According to recently revealed sales data from publisher Take-Two, it looks like Sony's PS5 has outsold Microsoft's Xbox Series X|S by a factor of roughly 2:1. Microsoft stopped trumpeting console sales a while back, so getting to a concrete number requires taking a slightly circuitous route.

Malenia is meant to be Elden Ring's toughest boss, but that hasn't stopped players from cutting her down with ease in the most challenging of ways, whether that means using their goldfish or busting a move on a dance mat.

Miklos Daniel Brody, a cloud engineer formerly employed at a bank, has been sentenced to two years in prison for «a network intrusion and for making false statements to a government agency» following a secret service investigation. Seemingly angered by his employer taking disciplinary action against him, Brody kept his work laptop under false pretences after being fired, and used his network access to damage his former employer's internal IT systems.

Fortnite on Steam isn't out of the question, according to Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, but it would require big changes to the way store owner Valve monetizes sales – namely a cut to what Sweeney calls "these ridiculous 30% fees."

Magic: The Gathering has finally put Rakdos Scam to an end with its latest ban for the Modern format, doing away with the much-criticized Fury.

Six years after its glitzy launch, Blizzard's grand experiment appears to be over. Blizzard confirmed in a statement to IGN that it is "transitioning from the Overwatch League," seemingly spelling the end for the competition once billed as the future of esports.

Microsoft have finally, finally, finally bought Activision Blizzard after many months of haggling with regulators in several countries. The total figure for the company behind Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Overwatch and Hearthstone, to say nothing of whopping mobile game publisher King and Candy Crush Saga? $68.7 billion, making this the biggest buyout in videogames industry history.

EA's long-running football series might have jettisoned the FIFA license, but the publisher's keen to let everyone know it's doing just fine without it — and has announced that this year's iteration, EA Sports FC 24, has reached 11.3m players in its first week of release.

Farts are funny. More than that, they're universally funny. No matter where you're from or where you're going, a fart in any language is a gas. So it's a little sad that farts are typically reserved for comedy games. Did Commander Shepard ever fart? Did Gordon Freeman cut the cheese? Did Lara Croft let one rip? You know they did—everyone does—we just never got to hear it.

As Payday 3’s matchmaking issues continue, its developer is looking into adding an offline mode.

Paradox Interactive's medieval grand strategy game Crusader Kings 3 is celebrating its three-year anniversary by trumpeting 3m copies sold since launch and by releasing a bunch of statistics gleaned in that time, suggesting players' conflict resolution skills may need some work — or at least, a little less of a preoccupation with murder.

Over the past week, dataminers have been rifling through Baldur's Gate 3's code and have discovered a dragon's hoard of alleged "cut content". It's hard to specify what they've unearthed without accidentally sounding the Major Spoilers trumpet and initiating Armageddon, but the supposed buried offerings include additional areas, swathes of dialogue, storylines, cutscenes, characters, romance opportunities and even deities. Given just how much Larian's gargantuan RPG gives you to play with, I am kind of thankful for a generous amount of stuff being "left out" - certainly, I don't need any more romanceable NPCs, I'm already fending them off with a broomhandle. But the news has gone down badly with a few players, and especially those who feel the game's overall quality takes a dive in acts 2 and 3.

Alphabet Inc.'s Google is adding artificial intelligence tools from companies including Meta Platforms Inc. and Anthropic to its cloud platform, weaving more generative AI into its products and positioning itself as a one-stop shop for cloud customers seeking to tap into the technology.

Healing in Baldur’s Gate 3 doesn’t come cheap. If you want to fully heal your party between battles and restore spell charges, you’ll need to return to your Camp for a Long Rest — which costs 40 Camp Supplies to perform. You can learn all about healing the party here, but if you want to stock up on consumable potions to use in battle, you’ll want to start crafting Healing Potions.

Bethesda has posted an interview with Starfield producer Jamie Mallory, which follows on from her recent scene-stealing intervention during a Starfield Direct. Mallory, you see, is a sandwich pirate. Her ship, designed to look like a platypus, has a cargo hold dedicated to storing these ill-gotten snacks. As someone who collected an absurd amount of skulls in Fallout 3, this is the kind of detail that matters in Bethesda games.

Microsoft has announced the Games with Gold lineup for August 2023, the final set of games to launch under the Games With Gold banner before the promotion comes to an end in September.