Developer of β€˜Gollum’ shutting down after disastrous launch

Developer of β€˜Gollum’ shutting down after disastrous launch

Publisher of the infamous β€˜Gollum’ game Daedalic Entertainment is shutting down its development studio. With big-name titles ballooning in budget, facing increased delays, and putting their developers at higher financial risk, is the industry becoming unsustainable? The studio behind 2023s worst video game β€˜Gollum’ is shutting down. Ridiculed online for...

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Nintendo latest company to end trading in Russia

Nintendo latest company to end trading in Russia

Russian gamers will no longer be able to purchase digital games from the Nintendo store, as it β€˜winds down’ operations. Nintendo has become the latest company to cease operations within Russia entirely, after suspending product shipments in March 2022. Russian consumers will no longer be able to purchase games digitally via Nintendo’s online shopfront. They will still be able to re-download previously purchased content, but cannot make any new payments nor...

By Bristol, UK
Wimbledon to use AI commentary at upcoming championships

Wimbledon to use AI commentary at upcoming championships

The All England Club has teamed up with tech group IBM to leverage the boom in large language models such as ChatGPT to cover matches that would ordinarily be watched in silence. Although Wimbledon has a reputation for favouring tradition over change, it’s set to follow a global trend this year in embracing artificial intelligence (AI) at the upcoming championships. Teaming up with tech group IBM to...

By London, UK
Google launches new AI tool PaLM 2

Google launches new AI tool PaLM 2

In an attempt to keep up with the competition, Google has announced PaLM 2, a β€˜next-generation language model’ that will be available for many of its upcoming products. It will be in direct competition with services like Midjourney and DALL-E. Google is attempting to throw itself back to the forefront of AI tools and services. Despite years of AI research and in-house work, the company has been unable to create popular...

By Bristol, UK
Electronic implant helps paralysed man walk again in historic first

Electronic implant helps paralysed man walk again in historic first

The revolutionary wireless device, which reads brain waves and sends instructions to the spine to move the right muscles, has allowed him to regain his natural mobility simply by thinking about it. In 2011, Gert-Jan Oskam was in a motorcycle accident that left him paralysed from the waist down. Now, thanks to revolutionary new technology, neuroscientists have given him control over his lower body again. β€˜For 12 years I’ve been...

By London, UK