Fans claim Blizzard’s new Diablo Immortal x Hearthstone art was made with generative AI

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The ear is the most convincing part of Reddit user Ipyreable’s post that claims artwork posted by official Diablo Immortal social media accounts was created with generative AI. Human ears simply do not look like that, even in the fantasy universes of Warcraft and Diablo. The art, which depicts a Warcraft character playing Hearthstone against … Read more

Dune: Awakening ‘temporarily’ disables Steam Family Sharing, potentially through the end of 2025: ‘We have unfortunately seen this feature abused frequently’

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Survival MMO Dune: Awakening got off to a strong start in June, but here at the tail end of July it’s gotten stuck in a bit of quicksand. Even making changes to the controversial chopper-heavy endgame hasn’t stopped recent Steam reviews from sliding to “Mixed,” and despite several patches to squash exploits and hackers, cheating … Read more

How Mycopunk’s devs turned a school project with zero funding into a ‘Very Positive’ Steam launch: ‘We wanted to make our own dream version of Deep Rock or Helldivers’

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“It’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission,” modeler Ryan Yan said, recounting his team’s mantra going into GDC 2024. Yan and creative director Liam Cribbs were in San Francisco to pitch publishers on a school project they’d been plugging away at for nine months with a handful of friends at NYU. Mycopunk, which released … Read more

The majority of teams in the top 100 for Destiny 2’s latest contest mode raid cheated—and as an MMO player, I am neither shocked nor surprised

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It is with grim solemnity that I must share some terrible news: Destiny 2 has cheaters in it. Quite a lot of cheaters, actually—in fact, the majority of players in a top 100 ranking for the contest mode of The Desert Perpetual raid are stinkin’, filthy, no-good hackers, why I oughtta. As spotted by @aquativityy … Read more

If you loved Baldur’s Gate 3 then you probably shouldn’t pick up this $10 bundle of incredibly crusty D&D games, but if you’re cool you should

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As Richard Nixon famously remarked, “We are all Dungeons and Dragons guys now.” The popularity of stuff like Critical Role and the fact the government mandates we all have, at minimum, one Baldur’s Gate 3 tattoo now means absolutely everyone is at least a little Faerûn-pilled these days. And if you’re desperately hungry for more … Read more

Financial Times report suggests chip smugglers shifted an alleged $1 billion worth of Nvidia’s AI chips to China over the course of 3 months while stricter US export controls were in effect

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The Financial Times recently published an investigation into chip exports during an early three-month phase in the Trump administration, when export controls were being tightened to prevent the sale of high-powered US AI hardware to China. According to the FT, at least $1 billion worth of Nvidia GPUs were shipped to those sanctioned shores during … Read more

‘You can’t raw dog it’ says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: ‘If you’re not using AI, you’re going to lose your job to somebody who uses AI’

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Winning the AI Race Part 3: Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, James Litinsky, Chase Lochmiller – YouTube Watch On Amid the hubbub of the Washington DC AI summit earlier this week, in which President Trump unveiled a raft of AI policies and made some dubious statements about the future of power generation, it might have been … Read more

Asus says ‘all issues have been resolved’ regarding Armoury Crate, MyAsus, and router vulnerabilities, so I’d jump on those updates now if you were putting them off

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Last month we reported on a fresh vulnerability discovered in Asus Armoury Crate, adding to a list of known exploits identified by researchers in AC, MyAsus, DriverHub and certain Asus routers. The company appears to have been beavering away with software and firmware fixes across its lineup since then, and has now given its products … Read more