After cutting 5% of its workforce in 2023 reports say Intel is planning to lay off thousands more workers
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.
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'I can’t thank streamers enough': Palworld developer's CEO weighs in on Japanese visual novel discourse in the wake of streaming controversy
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.
Assassin's Creed subreddit promises bans for anyone who keeps complaining about 'historical accuracy' and Yasuke: 'We are all exhausted of this tedious discussion'
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 explains that weird spike in Call of Duty cheaters last week
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.
Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, July 31
Come take a look at our fresh clue for today's Wordle, and give your guesses a little nudge in the right direction. Or jump straight to the July 31 (1138) answer if you'd prefer. However you'd like to win Wednesday's Wordle, we can help make it happen.
Diablo 4 season 5's return to hell supercharges its most overlooked loot to game-breaking levels
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.
Former GTA dev says 'it's time for a revolution' where 'animation is more AI-driven and physics-driven' than done by hand
The last time Rockstar Games revealed something about GTA 6 it was the first trailer, which premiered on December 4 and promptly shattered the Guiness World Record for views of a videogame reveal on YouTube. Since then… nothing. And before that… also nothing! Most of the info we've gotten about GTA 6 over the years is from that massive leak of gameplay footage in 2022, and when the December trailer leaked just ahead of Rockstar officially releasing it.
Goofy builder-crafter Space for Sale is about developing 'prime real estate on unexplored worlds'
A new indie will send you to space to explore new worlds and then plop down little housing developments on them. Space for Sale is a humorous take on the survival crafting base builder from developer Mirage Game Studios. Your job is to explore and develop little worlds, either solo or in two-player cooperative mode, by figuring out where the resources are, what's the best home site to work on, and which of the locals are dangerous.