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Remedy is ‘unsatisfied’ by poor sales of FBC: Firebreak and a tiny PC playerbase, but says ‘despite the rocky launch, we believe we have a solid game to build on’

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Going right back to my first preview of FBC: Firebreak, my question has always been the same: who is this for? Its chaotic, systems-driven co-op action does have impressive qualities and lots of imagination to it, but I never understood where it could possibly fit in the crowded and competitive multiplayer space. Unfortunately since then … Read more

If you felt way too killable in the first Battlefield 6 beta weekend, you might not have imagined it: BF6 devs are investigating reports of instakill ‘super bullets’

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In terms of numbers, it’d be hard to argue that the first Battlefield 6 beta weekend was anything other than a success. At times, the beta attracted more than half a million concurrent Steam players—enough to beat Call of Duty’s peak player count record since 2022. Our Morgan Park was impressed enough to declare that … Read more

Marvel Rivals’ bloated DPS roster won’t be solved ‘overnight’, creative director says: ‘The heroes we are currently deciding on are for a release slot next year’

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If there’s one thing that Marvel Rivals unequivocally does right, it’s putting together a strong hero roster. There’s a cute shark, a K-pop idol, Norse gods, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers we all know and love, and many more. Despite all these great characters, Marvel Rivals has one big issue with its roster: over half … Read more

OpenAI’s performance charts in the GPT-5 launch video are such a mess you have to think GPT-5 itself probably made them, and the company’s attempted fixes raise even more questions

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What to make of OpenAI’s latest GPT-5 chatbot? Let’s just say the reception from users has been sufficiently mixed to have OpenAI head honcho Sam Altman posting apologetically on X. And more than once. But one thing we can say for sure, the charts in the launch video were a bizarre mess that OpenAI has … Read more

‘I don’t know what it means to have a Manhattan Project for AI’: Nuclear war experts remind us of the frightening risks of our artificial intelligence controlling our nukes

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I’m not old enough to have lived through the Cold War and its close nuclear shaves that apparently had us at the brink of armageddon. But even millennials like myself, and younger generations, have grown up under the shadow of that particular mushroom-shaped threat. And it might just be me, but I don’t find my … Read more

Arctic Xtender PC case review

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This is Arctic’s first foray into chassis design. The Xtender. I’m not quite sure about the name—it doesn’t extend in any meaningful way—but it nonetheless looks excellent. So, let’s see if Arctic can make a name for itself in cases, as it has in cooling. The company is famed for its cooling products, the Liquid … Read more

Ex-Intel CEO calls current Intel CEO’s plans for chip factory investment a ‘joke’ and wants Nvidia, Apple and Google to stump up the cash to save the fabs

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Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan’s plan to not invest in the upcoming 14A chip manufacturing node until customers sign up is a joke. That’s according to Intel’s former CEO, Craig Barrett. Oh, and Barrett doesn’t much like the idea that Intel’s product design business and its chip factories should be split into two companies. Instead, … Read more

After saying he should resign ‘immediately’, President Trump changes his mind about Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and calls his ‘success and rise’ an ‘amazing story’, looks forward to fixes for Intel’s foundry

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I suppose it’s never a good idea to assume consistency with the Trump administration, given the record of flip flops. So shame on me for not seeing this particular flippy flop coming, as just one week after calling for Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s resignation, the US President has called his “success and rise” an “amazing … Read more

My best friend recently taught me an important lesson about AI pessimism: Don’t remain silent and accept no substitutes

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Jess Kinghorn, hardware writer, amateur artist (Image credit: Future) This week: Besides levelling up my horse girls in Umamusume: Pretty Derby, I asked my best friend to draw me as one of the expeditioners in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (because that RPG really has become my entire personality). On account of my truly abysmal handwriting, … Read more

Wikipedia challenged the UK’s new Online Safety Act and lost, but may have set a new precedent for fighting the rules all the same

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Last month, the UK rolled out new age verification measures under the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA), a new bill intended to protect the most vulnerable in the country from the worst of the internet. Whether it’s effective is another story, but this is only part of the Act’s rollout. There have been months of … Read more