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Nvidia Partner GMI Cloud Calls CoreWeave’s 15% Yield ‘Insane’

The founder of a cloud computing company with a similar business model to CoreWeave Inc. said the 15% yield on the latter’s bonds is “insane,” compared with the roughly 3.45% rate his company secured on a recent Taiwan dollar loan.

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hardware

Taiwan to Fund $4 Billion Texas Complex for AI, Nvidia Partners

Taiwan plans to raise billions of dollars to develop industrial parks in the US that would build a base for a comprehensive supply chain for Nvidia Corp. and other AI hardware makers in the country.

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news

US lawmaker calls videogame purchases rentals disguised as sales: 'When you pay for a game, you should own it'

Representative Ritchie Torres will introduce a bill aimed at protecting videogame ownership, including for online games that are decommissioned.

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news

Welp, all of you RuneScape folks who hate Reignited have gotten your wish, as the controversial MMO rejig has been cancelled

Welp, that was short lived. Earlier this month, Jagex made some big RuneScape announcements, namely that they're making a fourth version of the MMO (aptly, currently called RuneScape 4), but also the arrival of RuneScape Reignited, a new character type that…

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Less than 2 weeks after announcing RuneScape Reignited, Jagex is scrapping the whole thing

In the wake of a furious backlash from players, Jagex admits it "missed the mark."

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Valheim vs Enshrouded vs RuneScape: Dragonwilds: Let's settle this

Three top-tier survival crafting games have entered their 1.0 era.

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review

Street Fighter review roundup: sorry, folks, but it sounds like a mess

The general consensus seems to be that Street Fighter isn't a disaster, but it definitely misses a lot more than it hits.

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Ahead of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's launch next week, unionised Activision testers have voted to authorise a strike

Call of Duty testers have voted to authorise a union strike. The union, formed back in March of 2024, is made up of almost 600 quality assurance workers at Activision, and plan to strike if conditions at the publisher don't change. Read more

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hardware

Dell Just Released Its New 32" Alienware AW3226Q 4K Gaming Monitor With RGB Stripe Tandem OLED Tech

Now available for a surprisingly competitive price.

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news

World of Warcraft: Forever devs say gear upgrades will stay relevant 'for a long, long time': 'It's very much our intention to try wherever we can to not invalidate old content'

Blizzard says items won't work like the modern version of the MMO.

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news

Urine Trouble: PEE V PEE, a multiplayer game about hiding from the cops while you take a whizz on public property, takes the trophy for punniest title of the year

I've been doing this whole games journalism for over five years now, and I've seen a lot of different kinds of games in that time. I've written about plenty of them too, with a fair few being plenty weird. But I'll admit that today's game is one that I do…

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news

Control Resonant sells 1 million copies in 3 weeks to become Remedy's fastest-selling game ever

It's not a huge number, but it's big news for Remedy.

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news

The Verge (Mastodon): Volvo will use Nvidia’s tech for hands-free, point-to-point driving…

Volvo will use Nvidia’s tech for hands-free, point-to-point driving https://www.theverge.com/transportation/1011653/volvo-nvidia-autonomous-driving-level-2-hands-free-urban

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trailer

After almost three years of early access, Enshrouded has hit 1.0 with a complete story, bigger map, and way too much more to mention

The increasing number of early access games always throws me off, because one day you're seeing an announcement of a game releasing, and then a while (normally years) later, you see another announcement for said game releasing. Feels like I'm in a constant…

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news

GTA 5 finally measures up to the actual best GTA game now I've added a jetpack

Zoom.

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trailer

Monumentally expansive roguelike Caves of Qud is getting even bigger in December with an early access expansion that lets you play as messed up dogs and trees

Caves of Qud is a game well liked over here at RPS; Brendan gave it the coveted Bestest Bests badge back when it launched into 1.0 a couple of years ago, and all! It's a game I still want to reckon with more deeply, and perhaps with the reveal of its first…

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news

The AI bubble may not have burst yet, but $1 trillion worth of air appears to have escaped

Not so much 'going out with a bang' as 'anticlimactic party balloon deflation'.

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news

The Verge (Mastodon): The best reason to care about Nvidia’s RTX Spark: ‘everything’ will run on Arm…

The best reason to care about Nvidia’s RTX Spark: ‘everything’ will run on Arm https://www.theverge.com/tech/1011705/nvidia-rtx-spark-everything-runs-on-arm

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The Shogun 2 remaster is so bad, Sega is removing it from sale and bringing back the original

Sega admits Shogun 2 - Complete Edition "has fallen short of both your expectations and our own standards," so it's going back to the drawing board.

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The Verge (Mastodon): Nvidia, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta gave Trump a combined $92 million for…

Nvidia, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta gave Trump a combined $92 million for his ballroom https://www.theverge.com/policy/1012047/nvidia-apple-google-microsoft-amazon-meta-trump-ballroom

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trailer

4X strategy sequel Humankind 2 gets its first extended in-game footage, rich in era-spanning, culture-shaping, history-rewriting action

Not counting the slivers of footage tacked onto that baby's-eve-view reveal trailer, Humankind 2 devs Amplitude Studios have unveiled their first real footage of the history-spanning strategy sequel. Throughout its (nearly) seven minutes of maps and menus, we…

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hardware

79% of you think Razer's new gaming mouse feature counts as cheating

I doubt it will do a 180, though. Hey-hey!

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news

It's taken its sweet time, but Intel's response to AMD's X3D chips is starting to look tasty

A 65 W Ultra 9 Nova Lake chip with BLLC is reportedly on the way.

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news

Nvidia CEO Huang Says CoreWeave Improving, No Backstop Needed

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said CoreWeave Inc., a data center operator that his company supplies with computers, is getting financially stronger.

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news

I jammed Nvidia's new DLSS 5 October update model into the RTX Spark and it's 25% faster at 1440p

The performance hit you get from enabling DLSS Neural Rendering is now significantly lower, but NBA 2K27 is still not going to convince anyone.

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The Verge (Mastodon): How Windows is being optimized for Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops…

How Windows is being optimized for Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops https://www.theverge.com/tech/1011996/microsoft-windows-rtx-spark-platform-changes-notepad

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"Total War: Shogun 2 Complete Edition has fallen short of both your expectations and our own standards", Sega say as they pull it from stores and restore the original

Total War: Shogun 2's Complete Edition is set to be pulled from stores by publishers Sega and developers Creative Assembly, who've admitted that it fell short of both player expectations and its creators' standards. The studio and their overlords have pledged…

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news

Finally: Our favorite roguelike for sickos will let me play as a sapient tree

Diaspora, Caves of Qud's first expansion, enters early access in December.

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hardware

Razer Wolverine V4 Pro wireless gaming controller review

Claws, sharpened.

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trailer

The Grand Theft Auto 6 launch trailer is here

This one's got a very different vibe than what we've seen previously.

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news

Nvidia's RTX Spark makes for an impressive Arm-based gaming laptop but not one I'd recommend you buy just for PC gaming

The performance is there, the experience is great, but the price is utterly punitive when you compare against dedicated gaming laptops.

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news

After Civ 7 stumbled, Humankind 2 looks like it's making smart choices to pick up the 4X torch

Very dialectical.

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NVIDIA's RTX Spark is good for Windows, even if you don't need local AI

NVIDIA's RTX Spark is meant for AI fiends, but it could end up helping Windows PCs in general

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"I lost the concept of home, until my grandmother took me into these forests" - Trollheim: Gnomes is a survival game from ex-DICE and Paradox devs that channels childhood fairytales

Swedish studio Off-leash Interactive and Denshattack publishers Fireshine Games have announced Trollheim: Gnomes, a survival-crafting fairytale in which you, a three-inch-high gnome, explore a procedurally generated forest derived from Nordic folklore. You'll…

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news

A co-op survival game where trolls aren't just there to be killed? 'We don't talk about them as enemies, but rather as neighbors'

What kind of neighbor will you be in Trollheim: Gnomes?

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'There is no secret sauce' to a successful live service game according to Overwatch's associate game director, but knowing your audience is a good start

"We occupy this really unique spot in the middle."

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news

OLED really is the gift that keeps on giving, with what should be cheaper 700 Hz panels planned by TCL for 2028

'Cheap' being a relative term, of course.

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news

Adobe rebuilt Photoshop and Premiere for NVIDIA's RTX Spark platform

Adobe has 'rearchitected' Photoshop, Premiere and Substance 3D to work faster on computers powered by NVIDIA's RTX Spark AI superchip.

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"Some people like it, some people are annoyed by it": Substructure may look like Factorio, but it changes the automation game in some fundamental ways

In many respects, as someone who has played a lot of automation games, Substructure is very familiar. It begins with you landing on the surface of an alien world and using nothing but pluck, the tools on your UI, and the schematics in your tech tree to…

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news

Disco Elysium splinter studio's Red Rooster is going to be a 'an incendiary, physics-driven RPG' where you play an inmate, an opiate-fuelled mathematician, and a bus driver with nunchucks

Setting the world on fire.

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League of Legends Classic will become a thing of the past in January 2027, though it may one day be resurrected as a limited-time event

The classic mode rolled out in League of Legends earlier this year will cease to be a permanent addition once the calendar flips over into 2027, ending a fairly brief nostalgia run, devs Riot have announced. The mode, offering a version of the MOBA mirroring…

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news

How in the world are Intel GPUs still improving so much? The latest driver update claims up to a 31% fps improvement in Resident Evil Requiem

And more modest but still significant boosts in other games.

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news

Ubisoft reportedly look to cut 100 more jobs by proposing voluntary redundancies at studios including lead Anno devs Ubisoft Mainz

Ubisoft have initiated talks over voluntary redundancies at three German studios under their banner, reportedly seeking to cut around 100 workers via the move. Ubisoft Dusseldorf, Ubisoft Berlin and Ubisoft Mainz are the studios set to be affected, with talks…

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TSMC’s Third-Quarter Profit Beats Expectations

TSMC reported a better-than-expected profit for the third quarter as net income rose 69% to NT$763.1 billion ($23.6 billion). That came after the exclusive chipmaker of Nvidia and Apple’s most advanced semiconductors reported a sales jump of 51% in the…

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3 months after launch, Riot announces League of Legends Classic will be killed in January: 'most have gone back to other parts of League'

New Champions will continue to roll out for now.

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State lawsuits accuse OpenAI of ignoring its own safety warnings for profit: 'All these harms were foreseeable and avoidable'

Several US states have sued the company, alleging that ChatGPT is harming the public.

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Ex-Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan ignores everything about the hero shooter after his 'almost clinical' departure 5 years ago: 'I don't search for my name in Overwatch. I don't search for Overwatch. I sort of just disconnect.'

The former Blizzard developer has moved on.

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I want to love the new Castlevania, but it just feels a little off

Castlevania: Belmont's Curse has the right pieces for a grand revival, but it hasn't quite nailed the assembly.

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news

'My idea of a Netflix for games doesn’t work': Garry's Mod successor is getting 'sweeping changes'

"I’m sorry—we are going to do better."

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Legendary composer Frank Klepacki says the RTS genre isn't dead, but he would like to see devs get a little more creative with it

Klepacki shared his thoughts on the state of the real-time strategy genre in the latest issue of Edge.

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