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Metroid Prime Four Beyond readies fans for Switch Two
Metroid Prime fans waited over eight years for the newest game. Metroid Prime 4: Beyond arrives after Switch 2 launches later this year. A recent Nintendo event allowed gameplay testing during the console preview. The brief demo showed the game intro plus the first boss battle. Samus lands on planet Tenmaar amid Federation Force battling Space Pirates. Nintendo wanted to highlight various control schemes, especially new mouse controls. The mouse aiming felt responsive, and the Joy-Con positioning was comfortable. Some refinement might help since players still need face buttons for functions like Morph Ball mode. The gameplay resembled a straightforward FPS with simple Space Pirate AI. Battles felt like shooting galleries with...
11 Bit to drop The Alters on June 13
Game maker 11 bit studios just told fans their new sci-fi title, The Alters, launches June 13, 2025. Players can grab it on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. The Triple-I Initiative Showcase featured a fresh trailer showing more gameplay details. This upcoming adventure forces players as miner Jan Dolski to survive on a deadly alien planet with help from alternate versions of himself. Xbox Game Pass subscribers can play The Alters from day one without extra cost. The game mixes base-building mechanics with survival challenges plus emotional storytelling elements. Players must handle various feelings and wants from the clones they create during their escape attempts. Lead designer Rafał Włosek talked with Wccftech last May about game...
Enshrouded crosses 4M players as May update nears
Popular co-op game Enshrouded just hit 4 million players since launching in early access last January. This milestone comes just 8 months after reaching 3 million players. Keen Games celebrated with a preview of its next major update called "Thralls of Twilight" during Thursday's Triple-I Initiative Showcase. Players can expect the update to arrive in May 2025. The team plans to share more details about it next month. The upcoming Thralls of Twilight update will beef up the night cycle with fresh enemies and new materials for crafting powerful weapons. Combat will see balance changes alongside weapon mod capabilities, and survival mechanics will also receive tweaking throughout the game. The passionate player community has flooded...
Moonlighter 2 The Endless Vault coming summer 2025
Game fans just learned that Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault will hit shelves in Summer 2025. The exciting reveal happened during the Triple-I Initiative Showcase. Players can expect this hotly anticipated sequel on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. No exact date has been shared. The wait continues for eager fans. Digital Sun first revealed their follow-up to the indie darling late last year. The fresh trailer shows main character Will sharing merchant tips alongside gameplay footage. Players can see updated combat, exploration, and shop management systems. The sequel promises an even deeper experience than before as Will balances shopkeeping with hero duties. The original Moonlighter launched seven years ago and became one of 2018's...
ChatGPT on a 3GS shows AI on any device
A teenage developer made ChatGPT work on ancient iPhones. The 17-year-old created "ChatGPT for Legacy iOS," which runs perfectly on devices as old as the iPhone 3GS. His app connects directly to OpenAI's servers, just like the official version. This isn't just a basic experiment - it includes all the main features people use today. Users can have full conversations that maintain context, upload pictures for the AI to analyze, and even generate images. The app automatically saves chat history for easy reference later. Anyone with an iPhone running iOS 6 or newer can use this app. That means everything from the iPhone 3GS forward works! But there's a catch - you can't download it normally from the App Store. Users need to jailbreak...
Google Ironwood chip raises bar for AI performance
Google showed off its brand new AI chip, Ironwood. It is the first chip made just for running AI models rather than training them. Google announced it at Google Cloud Next 25, calling it their most powerful and efficient AI chip ever. Cloud customers can choose between two versions—one with 256 chips or a massive setup with 9,216 chips. The larger version packs 24 times more computing power than El Capitan (the world's biggest supercomputer), reaching 42.5 Exaflops. Ironwood runs twice as efficiently as its previous Trillium TPU chip. The new chip holds 192 GB of memory per chip - six times more than before. It transfers data at 7.2 TBps per chip, which is 4.5 times faster than the previous version. Communication between chips happens...
Marathon lets you skip PSN on PC and Xbox
Good news for PC and Xbox players! Marathon won't require you to sign up for a PlayStation Network account. A Bungie team member shared this information on Discord earlier today. This comes as a relief since some multiplayer games like Helldivers 2 still force PC players to create PlayStation accounts, making them unplayable in regions without PlayStation support. Players will finally see what Marathon looks like on April 12th after waiting more than a year since its announcement. We know very little about the game except that it's an extraction shooter with characters called Runners who have different abilities and customization options. The game promises various tools for completing missions, including weapons that change character...
Gamers sue Ubisoft, claim shutdown means no game
Two California gamers sued Ubisoft last November after the company killed servers for the racing game The Crew. They compared it to someone buying a pinball machine, only for the maker to break into their home later and remove every playable part, leaving just an empty shell. The players argued that Ubisoft tricked them, saying they were buying a game when really they only rented temporary access. One player even purchased a physical disc that became useless plastic once the servers went offline. After players complained, Ubisoft added offline modes to newer games, The Crew 2 and Motorfest. But they never fixed the original game, which died completely in March 2024. Ubisoft responded to the lawsuit. They told the upset players they...
MediaTek Dimensity 9400 Plus ups its game
MediaTek just released its new Dimensity 9400+ chip. The company built it on TSMC's second-generation 3nm process, N3E. This chip runs without any low-power cores because it's already super efficient. Phone makers plan to launch devices with this processor during the second quarter. The chip has one Cortex-X925 core running at 3.73GHz, three Cortex-X4 cores at 3.30GHz, and four Cortex-A720 cores at 2.40GHz. It also packs an Immortalis GPU with 12 cores that support ray tracing. The processor includes 12MB of L3 cache and many additional memory features. Users will enjoy Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6.0, and display support up to WQHD+ at a 180Hz refresh rate. The battery lasts longer, thanks to Ultrasave 4.0 technology. Camera support tops out...
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