Summer Game Fest may be over, but the flood of gaming news isn't. Nintendo just announced that it'll be holding its next Direct showcase event on June 9th at 10AM ET. The stream, which you can find here, will be followed by a Treehouse Live event, and it sounds like it'll be pretty lengthy. "The […]
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Microsoft’s AI chief says superintelligence is near, but won’t take your job
Today I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. And I’m actually going to keep today’s intro short — I’m working from my wife’s family farm this week, as you’ll see in the video, but also this is a real burner of an episode. We covered everything from Mustafa’s approach to training new […]
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This week in PC games: some enormous space sims and strategy games, plus a cheery prop hunt where you paint your own camouflage
Good news, everybody! We made it through the Summer Game Fest weekend pretty much unscathed. True, I have depleted neighbourhood stocks of ginseng and also, lost the ability to blink, but we got another Duskers out of it, didn't we? Also some footage of gunfights in a Fumito Ueda game, which distressed me less than it might have if I'd had any fluid left in my head when they screened the thing.
In equally happy news, we've dealt with the problem of the Maw eating Geoff Keighley and/or spawning a phantom double of Geoff Keighley. I mean, we didn’t do anything, really – I just like phantom Geoff's style. If you look closely you can see the original Geoff Keighley trapped inside his eyes, screaming and waving a sign that reads "Persona 6 is a lie". There is no time to be alarmed by this thought, because I have already prepared the latest list of PC game releases. Read more -
Hackers likely hijacked over 20,000 Instagram accounts with Meta’s AI chatbot
Hackers likely took over 20,225 Instagram accounts using Meta's AI support chatbot, the company confirmed in a notice filed with the state of Maine. In the notice, spotted earlier by Bleeping Computer, Meta blames a "bug" for the exploit that allowed attackers to hijack accounts without two-factor authentication simply by asking the chatbot for a […]
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Doom: The Dark Ages expanding with Revelations DLC in July, plus a free Ripatorium update adding to the game's customisable arena mode
Doom: The Dark Ages was a fun time, but we'd been wondering about the release window for its DLC (and its very nature) since a Premium Edition was released day one. During the Xbox Games Showcase, Bethesda Softworks and id Software finally unveiled the Revelations DLC. Read more
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State of Decay 3 dev wanted the first gameplay trailer to show off how much higher the game's quality is, but promises deeper systems are still there
State of Decay 3 was among the few surprising reveals during the Xbox Games Showcase. We've been waiting years to hear, or see, well, anything from the zombie survival management sim since the moment it was initially announced – which was nearly six years ago. Read more