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The United Videogame Workers took to the halls of the Game Developers Conference to announce itself on Wednesday.

You know how the old saying goes: you wait 25 years for a The Sims competitor and then three come along at once. Lo-fi delight Tiny Life is already out in early access, and cosy contender Paralives arrives later this year. But first, there's South Korean development giant Krafton's InZoi - an ultra-slick, mega-budget spin on the classic life sim formula that mostly seems to be selling itself on its seamless worlds and glossy, photorealistic looks - but is that enough to usurp the genre king? Bas...

The roots of many of NVIDIA’s landmark innovations — the foundational technology that powers AI, accelerated computing, real-time ray tracing and seamlessly connected data centers — can be found in the company’s research organization, a global team of around 400 experts in fields including computer architecture, generative AI, graphics and robotics. Established in 2006 and Read Article

Inzoi throws a million things to do at you, but doesn't make any of them important.

Guided exploration mode is a setting in Assassin’s Creed Shadows that adds additional waypoints to your map, minimizing the need to explore your environment during missions. You’ll choose whether or not to activate it when starting a new game. While the setting is a helpful tool for the lost and the frustrated, it also removes...

Your Hideout at Tomiko’s Homestead is an important part of Assassin’s Creed Shadows. It’s more than just your base of operations — many of the rooms comes with a benefit like increasing the number of scouts in your roster or improving the amount of healing you get from rations. Our Assassin’s Creed Shadows guide will...

Make no mistake: Assassin’s Creed Shadows is an Assassin’s Creed game to its core. You probably have a general idea of what to expect. Sneaking past bad guys. Stabbing bad guys. Climbing tall structures and elegantly diving into hay bales that happen to be next to some bad guys (who you then stab). Still, thanks...

Rations are functionally potions in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. You can use them to heal yourself in combat, but in bigger areas filled with lots of enemies, the standard allotment of rations might not feel like enough. Lucky for you, you can increase your ration capacity, but you’ll need to keep an eagle eye out to...

Scouts are an important asset in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. You’ll be able to start using them after unlocking the Hideout; they allow you to both narrow down quest locations and retrieve resources (the ones on pallets) from castles, camps, and other enemy outposts. Our Assassin’s Creed Shadows guide will tell you how to refill your...

“Way of the Blacksmith” is an early quest in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. It is part of the League board of your Objectives menu. The quest starts right after you build the first room — the Kakurega — in your Hideout at Tomiko’s Homestead. Right after you take in Junjiro, Tomiko will suggest you find Heiji...

“Thrown to the Dogs” is an early quest you can find in Assassin’s Creed Shadows in the Izumi Settsu region. It is part of the People of Settsu board of your Objectives menu. The quest starts with finding an abandoned dog at a grave who you’ll have to follow to find his owner’s hidden inheritance....

In Assassin’s Creed Shadows, you’ll need to accrue mastery points in order to level up your various skill trees. You get them by leveling up, but there are a few ways you can score extra mastery points as you explore Japan. Below, we explain what mastery points do and how to find more of them...

Early in the main story of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, you’ll be tasked with a choice: Should you let the young Junjiro stay in your Hideout or should you tell him to scram? Are there ramifications of kicking this young boy out, leaving him to the wolves? Is this that type of game? Below we answer...

Knowledge points help you progress in Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and are necessary for opening up which skills are available to Naoe and Yasuke. There are a lot of different activities you can do to earn knowledge points, with some being more common than others. Below we explain what knowledge points are used for in Assassin’s...

It looks like Meta’s campaign to bury a dishy, tell-all memoir from a former employee isn’t exactly working. In fact, it seems that the company’s legal maneuvers to block the book have had the exact opposite intended effect. Careless People has debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. It’s also spent much of the week in the number three position on Amazon’s bestseller list. That’s despite the fact that Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former policy director at Facebook, has been barred...

The Protector's Armor's unique perk is so good I kept it on for the majority of Shadows' 40-hour story.

According to his publisher, LocalThunk’s anonymity is less about artsy obfuscation and more about minding his own business.

Split Fiction studio Hazelight has invited two players to Sweden to see its next game after they completed a secret level so challenging, "there are barely people on our team that can make it."

The U.S. Department of Justice recently cracked down on an international crime ring that targeted expensive electronics like the iPhone, with the workings of the complex crime system detailed in a report from The Wall Street Journal. Thirteen members of an international network worked to steal FedEx shipments of iPhones from people's porches, using automated scripts to scrape data from FedEx tracking systems and also bribing corrupt employees from AT&T. The employees took payments to share confi...

Yes, there's a reason.

Techrot Encore is here, so get out your wallet chains and CD binders.

Ark: Survival Evolved publisher Snail Games released a bizarre, poorly received trailer for a new expansion, Ark: Aquatica, on Wednesday, drawing immediate ire from the Ark-playing community. Even original Ark developer Studio Wildcard appeared to distance itself from the announcement trailer for Ark: Aquatica, clarifying on social media that it isn’t involved in the project....

Riot Games has used the League of Legends client to host other projects before, like new game modes, summer events, and associated visual novels. It’s a fun way to interact with the universe beyond just playing League of Legends. For instance, Arcane was accompanied by a point-and-click adventure game in the League client called Jinx...

Hasbro's Wizards of the Coast has laid off 30 people who built Sigil, its recently released virtual tabletop experience, Polygon reports. The app allows Dungeons & Dragons players to build virtual, 3D game boards, complete with miniatures and dice, so they can play the classic tabletop roleplaying game remotely. News of the layoffs were first shared on March 18 in a LinkedIn post from Andy Collins, the design lead on Sigil. "Today, approximately 30 talented developers (90 percent of the team) we...

Apple introduced satellite connectivity for iPhones back in 2022, and since then, satellite messaging options have become the new must-have feature for carriers and other smartphone manufacturers. Verizon today announced the launch of its satellite-based text service, which is available for select Android smartphone users through a partnership with Skylo. Skylo uses licensed mobile satellite spectrum that avoids interference with terrestrial signals to provide coverage in remote areas where ther...

Boston Dynamics has treated us to a lot of impressive videos over the years and the company is back today with the latest example of its robotics mastery. In the clip above, its Atlas robot demonstrates several types of full-body movement, starting with a walk and advancing to a cartwheel and even a spot of break dancing. The different actions were developed using reinforcement learning that used motion capture and animation as source materials. At this rate, our future robot overlords will be a...

Sound advice, but easier said than done.

Capcom’s Monster Hunter Wilds and Warhorse Studios’ Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 are two games that have kept us eating good this year. One offers vibrant fantasy worlds filled with incredible beasts for you to battle with your friends on all platforms, while the other provides an intricately detailed medieval RPG experience with a penchant for realism. Grabbing both of these games isn’t going to be cheap, but fortunately, we’ve got a couple of exclusive offer codes for you that can not only help ...

Pilestedt says the game industry has a "convergence problem," and it won't find sustainable success until it breaks out of it.

Wizards of the Coast has laid off 90% of the studio working on Project Sigil, a dedicated Dungeons & Dragons virtual tabletop platform.

Hazelight boss Josef Fares said it, and apparently he meant it.

Cult classic 90s point-and-click horror adventure I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is - in a slightly unexpected turn of events - making the jump from PC to PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch next Thursday, 27th March, courtesy of Nightdive Studios.

iOS 18.4 includes a new Safari feature that puts your searches front and center, showing your recent search history whenever you open up a new Safari tab and tap into the search field. When the feature first came out in the iOS 18.4 beta, there was no option to disable it, but Apple rectified that with the fourth beta update. In the Safari section of the Settings app, there is now a "Show Recent Searches" option that can be toggled off. Disabling Show Recent Searches returns the Safari search in...

It’s said you should always be closing, even on Super Earth.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the latest Assassin’s Creed game to take place in a vast, beautiful world — so large that it can be overwhelming. For grand open-world RPGs like this, making sure the map screen is legible and pleasant to look at is a must. But just as important in a game this sprawling...