Dan Houser went off about generative AI again while doing press rounds for his new book, and this time, he is going after the people hyping it up instead of the tech itself. He told Virgin Radio UK that the executives pushing AI as some kind of creativity replacement are not exactly the most creative or human people around, and they are basically pretending they understand humanity better than actual creatives do.
Houser thinks the whole AI thing is going to crash because the models keep scraping the internet for training data, but the internet is getting flooded with AI-generated garbage. He compared it to feeding cows with cow parts and getting mad cow disease, which is pretty brutal but makes sense. He said the tech will handle some...
MediaTek helped Google build the I/O modules for the Ironwood TPU v7, which is apparently the first custom chip that can actually compete with NVIDIA's Blackwell GPUs for inference workloads. Google switched things up by bringing MediaTek into the design process instead of just working with Broadcom like usual, and UBS thinks MediaTek could pull in around $4 billion from the deal.
The experience from working on Google's chip should help MediaTek make the Dimensity 9600 way more power-efficient. They can supposedly tweak power gating to shut down I/O blocks more aggressively, improve voltage scaling to cut down on power consumption, and mess with clock gating strategies for better battery life. MediaTek ditched efficiency cores in their...
Cyanide Studio pushed back the Styx sequel from its original 2025 window, and the goblin stealth game is landing next year in mid-February instead. The delay announcement came with a cheeky trailer where Styx says he is not late and just enjoys making people wait. The developer framed it as extra polish time to make the comeback properly chaotic.
Francesco De Meo checked out a preview build at Gamescom and said the hardcore stealth approach might filter out some players, but the abilities and tools look super versatile for fans of the originals. The game hits PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S when it drops.
Someone slapped an RTX Remix path-tracing mod onto the unofficial Vice City Nextgen Edition remaster that runs on RAGE Engine, and MxBenchmarkPC posted a video showing how brutal the performance hit is. The mod apparently murders CPUs harder than any other RTX Remix project out there, and even a Ryzen 7 9800X3D struggles to hold 60 FPS. You basically need DLSS Performance mode and Frame Generation cranked up to get anything playable at 4K or 1440p.
The Vice City overhaul got nuked from trusted modding sites a while back, so only people who grabbed it before the takedown can mess with the new compatibility mod from Xoxor4d. Ray tracing is probably going to be huge in GTA VI based on the trailers, so this is a fun preview of what...
Where Winds Meet just hit 9 million downloads across PC and PS5 since launch, and the mobile version drops next week for iOS and Android. Lead producer Beralt Lyu said the team is hyped about the response, and the mobile port will have cross-platform play with a UI built specifically for phones. Pre-registration is already live on the official site.
Francesco De Meo gave it an 8.5/10 in his review, calling it a solid free-to-play open-world game with good combat and a lively city. The free-to-play stuff does hold back some features, but apparently, there are hundreds of hours of content already. Whether it blows up like Genshin Impact or Honkai Star Rail is still up in the air.
Foxconn just landed orders to build compute trays for Google's TPU racks, and apparently, they are shipping them out at a 1:1 ratio with the TPU racks themselves. Google's 7th-gen TPUs come in these massive Superpod setups that pack over 9,000 chips per pod, and Foxconn is handling the computing tray side of things. The whole TPU platform is supposedly getting traction with companies like Meta since everyone is obsessed with inference performance right at this moment.
The supply chain is apparently going wild over Google's TPU stuff because inference workloads are becoming way more important than training, and companies want the best performance without burning cash. This does not mean NVIDIA is getting replaced anytime soon, but the...
Black Ops 7 dropped out of the top spot after just one week, getting beaten by EA Sports FC 26 on both revenue and units sold. The CoD game already had a rough launch since it sold 63% worse than Battlefield 6, and Battlefield is still hanging around at number three right behind it. Football Manager 26 completely vanished from the charts after a strong debut.
Black Friday sales dragged some older games back into the rankings, with Spider-Man 2 and It Takes Two both making comebacks. Kirby Air Riders barely squeaked into the revenue list at number ten as the only fresh release that mattered. Hogwarts Legacy, Red Dead 2, and GTA V are all still doing their thing in the units-sold top ten.
A Rockstar animator named Benjamin Chue posted a demo reel with what looks like two early GTA VI clips mixed in with older stuff from Red Dead 2 and Max Payne 3. One shows a dude using a bike rental system, and the other has a woman jumping off a truck roof who might be Lucia. The clips are super barebones without final graphics or polish, but Rockstar still scrambled to nuke the video after people on Reddit spotted it.
This whole thing is pretty wild timing since Rockstar just fired 34 union members for allegedly sharing confidential info in a private Discord server, which the union says was just workers discussing new policies. Chue actually did share stuff publicly, which makes Rockstar's case way easier to argue compared to the...
Leaker Tom Henderson is saying the Sands of Time remake might drop around mid-January 2026, and apparently, Ubisoft only wants to market it for about a month before launch. That means we could see something at The Game Awards next week, or they might just dump a trailer on YouTube and call it a day. Either way, the window is tight.
This thing has been stuck in development hell forever. It got announced back in 2020 with a 2021 release date that never happened, then they delayed it indefinitely and rebooted the whole project with Ubisoft Montreal taking over. Development finally started going smoothly after they hit some milestone in 2023, and they confirmed an early 2026 window a few months back.
If it actually comes out next month...
