Ray Tracing Comes to Diablo 4 This Week
The gothic horror world of Blizzard's Diablo 4 is about to become even more terrifyingly beautiful with support for ray tracing coming in update 1.3.5...
Following Recent Layoffs, Jeff Strain’s Crop Circle Games Shuts Down, With Employees Claiming No Severance
Crop Circle Games is the latest studio to shut down, following an initial round of layoffs and furloughs last month. The closure, from owner Prytania,...
Amazon team commits to New World and future expansions – but won’t spoil the June secret
As we noted in our Vitae Aeternum column this morning, New World drama has been mounting over the past few weeks. Amazon had delayed Season...
AMD Zen 5 Turin Leak Points To Support For 4TB Of DDR5-6000 RAM On Next-Gen CPUs
It’s well known among enthusiasts that AMD’s Ryzen processors benefit tremendously from high memory clocks, especially in multi-threaded applications. This isn’t down to the memory bandwidth increase (although that can help), but more about the increased clock rate for the CPU’s Infinity Fabric. That means that the CPU cores can talk to each
Opinion: BlizzCon’s Future Is Questionable
As we look ahead to the rest of 2024, one thing feels less certain: the future of BlzzCon. Robin gives her thoughts on why the...
Palia Arrives on Steam Today, Adds Brand New Temple, More Story, and New Decor on All Platforms
Today, Palia launches on Steam and gets a big new update, with a new temple to explore, improved new player experience, new cosmetics, and a...
Lord of the Rings Online explains the confines of its creative freedom
Fresh off an appearance to fans at PAX East, Standing Stone Games is a little bleary but game for what’s coming next to Lord of...
Google AI-Powered Search Under Fire As Results Point Users To Malware and Scams
Artificial intelligence is not perfect. It occasionally spews misinformation, like the time a Chevy AI chatbot was tricked into “selling” a Tahoe for $1, and hallucinations or mistakes in the training data can result in incorrent output. However, the march of AI integration continues, bringing with it these sorts of problems, which Google
World of Warships brings asymmetric battles and the USS Wisconsin in its April update
A fresh content update is on the horizon for World of Warships in mid-April, and it’s bringing on a big new ship for fans to...
Watch These Surreal AI Shorts By Indie Creators Using OpenAI Sora
When we originally wrote about OpenAI’s Sora back in the middle of February, we noted that the AI video model would see use with some independent creators before it became available to the public. The idea is that OpenAI wanted to assess whether the model had any real value before opening it up to the public, likely because it is quite computationally