If I were to ask you what core values were embodied in western AI, what would you tell me? Unorthodox pizza technique? Annihilating the actually good parts of copyright law? The resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come?
All of the above, perhaps, and all subordinated to the paramount value that is lining the pockets of tech shareholders. Not so in China, apparently, where AI bots created by some of the country’s biggest corporations are being subjected to a battery of tests to ensure compliance with “core socialist values,” as reported by the FT.
China’s Cyberspace Administration Centre (CAC)—the one with the throwback revolutionary-style anthem which, you have to admit, goes hard—is reviewing AI models developed by behemoths like ByteDance (the…
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I’ll never get tired of a well-phrased “go screw yourself” from an indie dev—like when the Iron Lung dev just outright said the price ‘hike’ of $2 was, absolutely, done so he could make more money from the game. It’s a harsh industry (especially recently), after all.
Another such gem has come from the developers behind the upcoming Japanese roguelike Machina of the Planet Tree: Mugen Ourokaku, a game which scans as a hack-‘n’-slash take on Risk of Rain, but with a skimpily-clad catgirl by the name of Retla Stoltein as the protagonist.
Developer Housenka at Denneko Yuugi is clearly marketing this to anime girl apprecatiors—and honestly, more power to ’em. It helps that these animations are genuinely adorable and well put-together, expressive enough to give Genshin…
If you’re still hanging on to that old password, here’s some news that should change your mind: Cybersecurity researcher Bob Dyachenko and the team over at Cybernews have discovered an open instance containing a gigantic 12TB of user data, in what they’re referring to as the “mother of all breaches”, and it seems like it might be the biggest user information leak yet.
While the bulk of the data seems to be made up of information already known to be leaked, in a sort of greatest hits package of stolen info (via PC World), the assumption is that new data is likely to be included too.
This is said to include login information, passwords and user data for multiple popular sites, including LinkedIn, Twitter, Weibo and Tencent, although that list is likely to be far from com…
Call of Duty is going back to Verdansk, but not in the way most Warzone players would hope. Activision dropped the official campaign trailer for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 today, and while it’s definitely another globe-trotting story, fans were quick to notice that at least part of the campaign will take place in locations from Warzone’s first map.
Near the start of the trailer, Captain Price and friends scale the exterior of a coastal prison, an iconic location on the Warzone Verdansk map. There are even glimpses of the interior that almost exactly match the layout of the old map, though we can probably expect some alterations (things tend to blow up in a CoD campaign, after all). The other big locale I noticed was Verdansk Stadium, the crown jewel of year one Warzone that wa…
The question of when Baldur’s Gate 3 would release on Xbox, if ever, was uncertain until this week, not because of messy console exclusivity politics, but because of console gaming’s gradual transformation into a wonky kind of PC gaming.
The problem was that Microsoft requires Xbox games run on the Xbox Series S, a cheaper version of its flagship Xbox Series X with less-powerful hardware and no optical drive, and Larian was struggling to get Baldur’s Gate 3 split-screen co-op working to its standards on the console. The studio previously said that although it was working on a Baldur’s Gate 3 Xbox version, it wasn’t “confident enough” that it could solve the technical problem to announce it.
Today, however, Larian boss Swen Vincke announced that, after speaking to Xbox …
It’s become so common to see online games switched off entirely that we actually compiled a list of all the big games that shut down last year. It sometimes feels risky to get too attached to any kind of online multiplayer game these days; as soon as a line on an earnings graph dips too low, the servers get unplugged.
But Killer Instinct is bucking that trend (via Time Extension). The fighting game reboot that originally hit PC seven years ago has responded to issues with its legacy server infrastructure by, get this, migrating to new ones! A quality of life update for the game released last week that begins the process of moving Killer Instinct over to a new server backend.
“Over the last five years,” read the update, “it has become more challenging to deal with issues that…
Update: Sony has now backed down on its demand that Helldivers 2 players log into a PSN account.
Even as members of Helldivers studio Arrowhead Games say that discussions around Sony’s controversial PlayStation Network sign in requirement for Helldivers 2 on PC are still ongoing, it looks like the publisher is doubling down on the move, halting sales of the game in countries where it doesn’t offer the service.
In theory, Helldivers 2 was always supposed to require players to sign into the PlayStation Network in game, but this was not required at launch due to network infrastructure limitations (remember Helldivers 2’s early server woes?). Two days ago, Sony announced that it would begin enforcing that requirement in a month-long rollout.
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As our associate editor Tyler Colp recently put it, the fate of Disco Elysium 2 is uncertain, but other games might make up for it. One such potential plug for the Disco-shaped hole in our hearts is Sovereign Syndicate, a CRPG set in an alternate Victorian London. You can tell it’s an alternate reality because the menu screen shows it’s got zeppelins, as all alternate realities are required to have by law. The minotaur’s a bit of a giveaway as well.
While the final version of Sovereign Syndicate will have three player-characters to choose from—Clara the corsair, Otto the automaton, and Atticus the minotaur—the current demo is restricted to the minotaur. An alcoholic in a top hat, Atticus Daley is a small-time illusionist and big-time loser who begins the game in extrem…