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Sales of AMD's new AI chips are going gangbusters. Well, relatively speaking. AMD's latest results for the second quarter of this year showed that the company flogged roughly $1 billion's worth of its Instinct MI300 AI GPUs in the quarter, up from pretty much zero for the same class of hardware a year ago.
EA's Andrew Wilson sure likes his bold claims. When he ascended to the CEO throne he declared that EA was gonna be "The world's greatest games company." Earlier this year he was imagineering a world in which 3 billion people were creating EA's games using EA's AI tech. Now he's saying the next Battlefield is gonna be absolutely massive. So massive that it's «one of the most ambitious projects in our history.»
Intel fired a pretty hefty 5% of its workforce in 2023. Now reports are coming in that the company is planning yet more layoffs this year.
If your first response to that headline was «what are these words, and why are they being put in that order?» That's understandable—the present discourse taking place in the Japanese gaming community is, after all, centred around a genre we don't get to talk about too often over here: The visual novel.
Whether or not Yasuke, an African man who briefly served feudal lord Oda Nobunaga in 16th-century Japan, was «really a samurai» is a somewhat interesting question for scholars of the era, and comes down to how the historical records of his life pair with use of the term «samurai» at the time. Biographer Thomas Lockley, as one example, has said that Yasuke was indeed one of Nobunaga's many samurai, the title simply referring to warriors who served a lord (see: this Smithsonian article).
Activision has given some explanation as to why fans were noticing more cheaters than normal in Call of Duty recently, saying on the «Call of Duty Updates» X account that its anti-cheat system had an issue which has since been resolved. Players started posting about an increase in cheating after the launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 season 5, and its simultaneous launch on Game Pass, on July 24.
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Although Blizzard's sweeping changes to loot in Diablo 4's last season successfully revitalized the action RPG, there was one problem: An entire tier of loot was rendered more or less obsolete. The unique items with the most creative effects, like a wand that teleports sorcerers to random locations, couldn't compete with the renewed power of normal legendary items.