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Game publisher caught using AI-generated influencers in ads says they were submitted by TikTok users, will investigate ‘irregularities’ with the social media app

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Nexon says it has discovered “certain irregularities” in a recent ad campaign for its gooner-looter-shooter The First Descendant, and is now “we are conducting a thorough joint investigation with TikTok to determine the facts.” A quick refresher course: It came to light over the weekend that a recent series of ads for The First Descendant, … Read more

Phasmophobia dev says there are ‘plans for 1.0’ and doesn’t rule out a sequel: ‘It would be a fun challenge to see if we could do another one’

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Phasmophobia is one of those games that shows early access at its best. It first released in September 2020 and had the core ghost-hunting experience nailed from the start, but it also felt a little like a proof-of-concept: There weren’t too many maps, the environments leaned heavily on asset packs and soon felt a little … Read more

Colorful’s cat-themed B650 motherboard now has an optional kitty-based BIOS, a combination of words I really didn’t think I’d be writing today

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Good news, cats and kittens! If you’re the proud owner of a furry cat-themed keyboard, a cat-themed GPU, and a cat-themed Colorful B650 Colorfire motherboard, you can now complete your kitty-based setup by updating the BIOS to feature, you guessed it, a little cat at the bottom of the screen. Also, your family worries about … Read more

China has reportedly told its data center operators to source more than 50% of their chips from domestic manufacturers in an effort to break away from US tech

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The Chinese government has reportedly mandated that its domestic data center operators nationwide should source more than 50 per cent of their chips from domestic producers. The mandate is said to have originated in guidelines proposed last March for the Shanghai municipality, which stipulated that “adoption of domestic computing and storage chips at the city’s … Read more

‘Someone is going to lose a phenomenal amount of money’ says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about unwise AI investment. ‘When bubbles happen, smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth’

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke to assembled reporters at a dinner in San Francisco late last week on the topic of, you guessed it, AI, the applications of AI, and the vast sums of money moving behind the scenes to fund it. Despite being one of the most vocal advocates of the tech, Altman had … Read more

‘You will definitely see some companies go make Japanese anime sex bots,’ says OpenAI’s Sam Altman about AI relationships. ‘You will not see us do that’

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently attended a dinner with a small group of reporters, and apparently had a lot to say about the company, the future of AI, and some of its potential applications (via The Verge). No great surprises there. However, when it comes to, perhaps less savoury uses of the tech, Altman appears … Read more

Peak devs admit they’ve been speaking through Bing Bong, but not anymore: ‘Anyone claiming that the devs are joining them through Bing Bong, or any other way, they are full of sh*t’

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There’s an incredibly high chance that the moment you started a run in Peak for the first time, you immediately ran to a strange green plush known as Bing Bong, which survived the plane crash. If you’re anything like me, this then continued to happen each run until you realised that bag space was super … Read more

‘I always knew it was going to go away eventually:’ Anthem producer Mark Darrah gives his take on Stop Killing Games ahead of his own project shutting down forever

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The mothballing of live service games has become a hot button issue in gaming with the continued momentum of the Stop Killing Games initiative. And on that topic, 2019’s maligned MMO-lite Anthem will shut down early in 2026 after a seven-year run. You’ll never be able to play it again—no matter how much money you … Read more

There’s already a rollback mod so you can once again kill the bosses in Wuchang: Fallen Feathers who were rendered unkillable in a patch

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Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, the game that’s like Bloodborne if you took out all the Victorian England and injected a megadose of 14th century China instead, was recently updated to version 1.5. Said update included some uncontroversial quality-of-life improvements, and some story changes that were rather more controversial. As of version 1.5 various historically important bosses … Read more