Remember that movie Her, about a guy who developed an unhealthy relationship with an AI? Apparently it's happening in real life now, and Sam Altman counts it among the "cool" uses for ChatGPT.At the Sequoia Capital AI Ascent conference earlier this month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman answered a slew of questions about ChatGPT, including a few that homed in on some of the seriously concerning trends around the way people...
If you thought your gaming monitor was fast, well, it might be. But as fast, as clever, and as luscious to look at as the newly-announced MSI MPG 271QR QD-OLED X50? I doubt it. MSI's 27-inch, 1440p, QD-OLED beauty was in front of my very eyes today at Computex 2025, and it's got quite the spec sheet—including MSI's AI Care Sensor for a spot of monitor peek-a-boo.Allow me to explain....
The only thing more astonishing than Star Citizen's ability to extract funds from its community is the eagerness with which said community has supported it. Across thirteen years, Cloud Imperium Games has raised over $800 million from a convoluted mixture of paid alpha access, subscriptions, merchandising, microtransactions, and selling spaceships that cost hundreds of dollars to players (I suppose you could call these "macrotransactions").While there have been controversies and backlashes...
Save yourself from any alphabet-twisting worries with our Wordle help. A quick run through our general tips might help you find a new path—especially if you pair that knowledge with our hint for today's game too. And if Sunday's puzzle is still causing you trouble, the May 18 (1429) answer is never more than an easy, puzzle-winning click away.Ah, the perfect Sunday Wordle. A treat of a first row to...
We've been following the development of co-op action-horror game Blight: Survival for a good long while now, going back to a gameplay reveal trailer in 2022 that showed filthy knights fighting filthier zombies. A recent sign of life in what might have looked like a fungus-encrusted peasant corpse, the Blight: Survival team recently shared a look at the development of the Marshlands biome in a post with an evocative name:...
In YouTuber SlimX's accounting of Baldur's Gate 3's behind-the-scenes secrets, he hit me with one that sent my jaw through the floor: You can summon a magical sheep who can cast endgame spells by killing a minor NPC and ringing both of Act 3's bell tower bells.You may have encountered Harvard Willoughby in normal play: This monocole-wearing, mustachioed comedian will challenge you to a duel of wits at the Elfsong...
For the 7th birthday of the House Flipper videogames, developer Frozen District has released (free) co-op DLC for House Flipper 2, letting you make busted houses into less-busted houses with your friends in real time. It's also cross-platform, which means you can play on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation with up to four players on any other the other ones.To celebrate the co-op release, and the series birthday, House Flipper 2...
Labyrinth of the Demon King is a must-play: It's a first-person, survival horror dungeon crawler that feels like an unholy fusion of King's Field, Resident Evil, and Condemned. When you do check it out, though, I've got one big piece of new player advice.Actually four, come to think of it: Always be kickingConsumables (including talismans) are your friendUpgrade your stamina three or four times before you ever touch healthAnd the...
"Knowledge was my main game, to figure out the law, to figure out the frame," rapped Robert De Negro in Joyride, the winningly goofy GTA title rap. "Just when I thought I knew justice, a cop behind me said, 'You've just been busted.'"I thought I knew the original Grand Theft Auto. That I had The Knowledge, like a London cabbie, and could find my way through Liberty City's maze of...
You would think the Skyblivion and Oblivion Remastered teams would be the bitterest of rivals, given how Bethesda surprise dropped a comprehensive makeover of its 2006 RPG on the heads of a team of volunteers, one which had been diligently working on a similar project for years. Yet if anything, the relationship between the two groups of Oblivion overhaulers is turning into a game dev love story.It all started before...