Voice actor Peter Renaday, who played Duncan in Dragon Age: Origins, has died age 89
Peter Renaday, a voice actor who starred in a wide variety of roles in both videogames and TV, has died.
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EVE players are in revolt over CCP's blockchain plans: 'None of us want this crypto slop'
Yesterday, I wrote about my chat with CCP's top brass about its upcoming survival MMO EVE Frontier—a new game in the EVE universe that uses blockchain tech to (so goes the CCP pitch) take the player-led philosophy of EVE Online and make it weirder, wilder, and woolier, even letting players become effectively co-developers of the game alongside CCP. I went in as sceptical as I am of literally anything with the whiff of Web3 about it, but hearing the devs' pitch left me at least open to the possibility they were doing something interesting with the technology.
Acer responds to claims its gaming laptop intro was misogynistic: 'Acer makes no difference in gender, our objective is to make technology available to everybody'
Last week, alongside announcing the new Nitro Blaze 7, and a slew of gaming laptops, Acer's Valerie Piau soured the announcement by linking the aesthetic of its new Nitro V 14 gaming laptop with the rise of «women and casual gamers» in the gaming space.
Alienware AW2725QF review
Two «native» resolutions. One screen. Can it ever work? We've seen plenty of attempts at dual-mode panels before, most recently in the LG UltraGear 32GS95UE. But where that LG had plenty more to mark it out, including LG's latest 4K OLED tech, the new Alienware AW2725QF leans into its dual-mode status a little more emphatically.
Get your setup sorted for games season: PC Gamers' favorite gaming headset, mouse, keyboard, and controller are all on sale today
Good gaming peripherals are the unsung heroes of the PC gaming world. Though getting an RTX 40-series card and that beast of a CPU will let you show off your impressive frame rates and ray-traced puddles, it's the headset around your ear or controller in your hands that keep you going through those long gaming sessions.
Look out, OpenAI's latest chatbot hallucinates less and might even count to three
OpenAI has unleashed yet another new chatbot on we poor, unsuspecting humans. We give you o1, a chatbot designed for more advanced reasoning that's claimed to be better at things like coding, math and generally solving multistep problems.
'It's very emotional, it's really tense': Heavy lies the crown of AI dominance as Nvidia's Jensen Huang admits to getting just three hours sleep a night
All of us have pressures to endure in our working lives, and some of us have more than others. However, despite the perks, being the CEO of Nvidia seems like it'd come with a hefty dose of responsibility right now, as the company rides the crest of the AI hardware wave.
'We can't do computer graphics anymore without artificial intelligence. We compute one pixel, we infer the other 32': Jensen thinks AI is integral to next-gen graphics tech
Unless you've been living under a rock, you may have noticed a trend in PC gaming in recent years—and that trend is upscaling. While AMD's compute-based FSR has improved over its various iterations, as we recently found in our testing, it's still not a patch on Nvidia's AI-powered DLSS for image preservation. And according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, we're now at a point where AI has become all-but-essential for next-generation graphics tech.