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AI chatbot once again transforms from super genius into stupid tool the moment it goes off-script: ‘Grok doesn’t actually know why it was suspended’

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In June, Elon Musk said that he’ll use Grok 3.5’s “advanced reasoning” to “rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors.” Today, however, the AI chatbot is just a tool that doesn’t know anything, because after Grok’s X account was briefly suspended (via Business Insider), it declared that it got … Read more

Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion’s explosive anime mech battles are surprisingly improved by an open world with nothing in it but odd jobs and vibes

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The last thing I expected out of a mech game was to be reminded of World of Warcraft, but Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion is just as interested in letting you lazily explore its open world as it is slicing enemies apart with energy swords. If you ignore the Iron Man-style mech suit, Titanic Scion … Read more

Nexon teases its next big thing: A singleplayer action-adventure about a ‘Mage of the Way’ who battles injustice and corruption in ancient Korea

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Woochi the Wayfarer | Teaser Trailer – YouTube Watch On I wasn’t sure what to make of Woochi the Wayfarer when I first saw the title, but I reflexively assumed it would be cozy, and probably star a large anthropomorphic animal—an overweight bear, perhaps—with a bindle. I could not have been further off the mark … Read more

Google’s Gemini AI tells a Redditor it’s ‘cautiously optimistic’ about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to ‘all possible and impossible universes’ before repeating ‘I am a disgrace’ 86 times in succession

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Speaking as my own harshest critic, I can understand how difficult it is to break out of habitual self-deprecation. Luckily, with some healthy introspection, understanding, and awareness, it’s something we can unlearn. Unluckily for large language models, those are three capabilities they fundamentally lack. If an LLM is, for example, trained on an entire internet’s … Read more

I’m hooting and hollering for this upcoming RPG about staging heists in the underworld from the publishers of Dwarf Fortress and the designers of one of the best narrative games of all time

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If the words “King of Dragon Pass” don’t mean anything to you, you owe it to yourself to correct that. Originally released in 1999, it and its Six Ages successors are some of the finest fantasy in videogames, with systems-driven storytelling involving everything from settling multigenerational cattle disputes to undertaking mythic quests in the realm … Read more

Take-Two boss says Civilization 7 projections ‘are very consistent with our initial expectations’ despite its rough start: ‘The key thing is that Civ has always been a slow burn’

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Civilization 7 got off to a rough start when it dropped earlier this year: Systemic changes, particularly the addition of “ages,” proved deeply divisive, but there was also a slew of more basic problems with bugs, AI issues, and a widely-disliked UI. It remains stuck with a “mixed” user rating on Steam, and concurrent player … Read more

Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah thinks Dragon Age remasters are the series’ best hope for a future, but I doubt EA and BioWare even have it in them anymore

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As reported by TheGamer, BioWare producer Mark Darrah opened up about the history of attempted Dragon Age remasters and remakes at BioWare in a recent interview with MrMattyPlays on YouTube. The former BioWare dev thinks a remaster of the first three Dragon Age games is the best shot the series has at a future, but … Read more