This one-of-a-kind PS5 console was customized with the PS1's retro gray finish and the classic four-color PS logo. Even the DualSense controller got a late '90s makeover, with a cute cover for the PS5's front USB-C port to mimic the first PlayStation controller.
No, this will not go on sale. It's a parting gift for SIE (Sony Interactive Entertainment) president and CEO Jim Ryan, who will retire in March 2024. At a thank-you party this week, the outgoing PlayStation boss was honored by many legends of the game. industry, including the “father of PlayStation.” Ken Kutaragi, Gran Turismo's Kazunori Yamauchi, Team Asobi's Nicolas Doucet, and of course Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida.
In reality, it was 24 hours full of games. This year's Game Awards bombarded us with new trailers and gaming news. Surprise, a role-playing game set in a world generated entirely by procedures and a…
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Meta's Threads is getting search hashtags that aren't exactly hashtags
The company is trying to prevent “commitment hacking.”
The latest Meta update for Threads brings the long-awaited ability to search for topics with tags. Although the feature is located under the familiar # symbol, Threads tags are slightly different from hashtags. Instagram Director Adam Mosseri explained that Threads tags can contain spaces and special characters, and can only use a single tag per post, so choose wisely.
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No Man's Sky creators will simulate an entire planet for Light No Fire
Hello Games' new title is a multiplayer sandbox RPG the size of the Earth.
British independent studio Hello Games has announced its next game, Don't light a fire, that will bring the procedural generation of no man's sky to an entire planet on an incredibly detailed scale. It will combine open world exploration with multiplayer community building, apparently set on an Earth-sized planet. Do not light fire It's been in development for five years by about a dozen developers at Hello Games, but there's no release window yet.
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Google admits it put together a Gemini ai demo video
There was no voice interaction nor was the demonstration done in real time.
As Google ramps up its ai battle with OpenAI and ChatGPT, the company has admitted that a demo, shown in the video “Hands-on with Gemini: Interacting with Multimodal ai,” was edited to speed up results. Interactions were also not based on voice but on text input.
The demo used “frames of still images from the footage and prompts via text,” rather than Gemini responding to, or even predicting, a drawing or changing of objects on the table in real time. It's all a little less impressive and comes as Google's most advanced ai models don't differ much from OpenAI's latest GPT tricks.
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Baldur's Gate 3 is available on Xbox Series X/S
The official Game of the Year is finally on Microsoft consoles.
Developer and publisher Larian Studios had committed to releasing the Xbox version of this year's Game of the Year before… the end of the year and said it would reveal the exact date at The Game Awards. True to his word, Larian announced the Xbox version of Baldur's Gate 3 It's available right now.
The delay was due to a technical issue with the Series S and the inability to implement the game's split-screen feature on the lower-powered console. However, Larian said that he had a solution to support split-screen on the Series X, but not the Series S, and that he had permission to do so from Xbox bosses.
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