Raph Koster on the birth of MMORPGs and sandboxes as the ultimate expression of social gaming
Say, would you like to hear Raph Koster talk about the history of our genre? But this time in a condensed video format without having...
Samsung Wins $200 Billion Broadcom Contract For 2nm AI Chips
Samsung Electronics and U.S. chip designer Broadcom have entered into a landmark $200 billion agreement running through 2030, spanning memory supply, cutting-edge foundry manufacturing, and advanced packaging to power global artificial intelligence infrastructure. Signed during the AI summit in San Francisco, the five-year memorandum of understanding
Fallen Earth’s latest multi-month server shutdown is finally being turned around by Little Orbit
Is it deep dedication or deep into the sunk cost fallacy? We’re pretty confident that it’s the former, but either way, developer Little Orbit has...
OpenAI Seeks $250 Billion NVIDIA Guarantee For Ohio Data Center
NVIDIA is reportedly in negotiations to provide in the neighborhood of $250 billion in financial guarantees to help OpenAI secure a 10-gigawatt AI data center campus in southern Ohio. Expanding on OpenAI’s $100 billion partnership to power AI superintelligence, if finalized, it would rank as the biggest data center project announced so far.
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Nvidia weighs $250 billion guarantee so OpenAI can lease SoftBank’s 10-gigawatt Ohio campus, report claims — Nvidia also said to be discussing $350 billion deal to finance chips for the site
OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease SB Energy’s 10 GW data center campus in Piketon, Ohio, with Nvidia in discussions to guarantee roughly $250 billion of the financing behind it.
Path of Exile 1 sees yet another surge of Steam players and two days of hotfixing for its latest expansion
If this past weekend’s headline for the Curse of the Allflame update launch in Path of Exile reads familiar, that’s probably because it is. This MMOARPG usually...
AI developer runs 28.9-million-parameter model on $10 ESP32-S3 microcontroller — uses Google’s Per-Layer Embeddings technique, stores table on 16MB Flash memory
Getting a local language model running on a sub-$10 microcontroller is impressive despite its obvious limitations.
ASUS Zenbook 14 Air Brings Zen 5 Ryzen AI CPUs To An Ultra-Thin OLED Laptop
ASUS is expanding its ultra-thin laptop lineup with a new AMD-powered variant of the Zenbook 14 Air, packing high-end Ryzen AI silicon based on Zen 5 and a vibrant OLED panel into a sleek and slim chassis. Following our time testing the Intel-based Zenbook S 14 earlier, this latest iteration shifts to AMD’s Ryzen AI 400 series chips in an
EverQuest Legends is adding playable Kerran for this week’s launch, set for tomorrow at 3p EDT
If EverQuest Legends’ self-imposed mission is experimenting with a classic formula to make it even better, it’s crushing it for launch week with the surprise...
Disgruntled gamer builds booby-trapped Steam Deck with 3D-printed spikes and a built-in taser — Raspberry Pi powers speaker, camera, and alarm to stop family members draining his battery
A Steam Deck devotee was so fed up with their family borrowing their handheld and leaving it with a flat battery that they have resorted to quite extreme anti-sharing measures.