Life is Strange: Double Exposure is putting players back in the shoes of Max Caulfield, the iconic protagonist of the original Life is Strange. And as if that’s not exciting enough, this time she’ll be armed with an all-new power: the ability to enter alternate timelines in which certain characters are still alive. From the…
After a strong launch, Zenless Zone Zero has revealed details for its first major content update. Here’s a summary of ZZZ’s 1.1 special programs, including new characters, events, and a whole new game mode! Zenless Zone Zero Version 1.1, titled “Undercover R&B,” releases on August 14. It will continue Wise and Belle’s journey in New…
According to Bickley, anything related to an antitrust probe is “more hype than substance at this point, because, first, semiconductors are the most volatile sector in the stock market. [Nvidia CEO] Jensen Huang knows full well that this wave that they’re riding at the end of the day will crest, and it will crash, and…
Happy Paintings, the developer behind the amazing RPG Maker titles Fear & Hunger and Fear & Hunger 2: Termina, has recently spoken about the third game in the series and its possible directions. You’ll be pleased to know that they’re just as radical as the changes between the first two entries. On Twitter, Happy Paintings recently posted a few of their…
With the big Summer update for Hitman World of Assassination, developer IO Interactive introduced new challenges to the game to keep players busy in what is usually a quiet period for releases. Some of these challenges, like the Sapienza Sports Club, are downright fiendish. To complete the Sapienza Sports Club challenge in Hitman World of…
Enlarge / A thing that exists through ROM hacking, and ROMHacking.net: Super Mario Land 2, in color. (credit: Nintendo/Toruzz) If there was something wrong with an old game, or you wanted to make a different version of it, and you wanted people to help you fix that, you typically did that on RomHacking.net. After this…
Hiring in the technology sector and the broader tech workforce took a step back in July with an overall slowdown in job growth, according to a US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report today and an analysis of that data. The tech industry shed an estimated 9,162 jobs last month, according to CompTIA, the nonprofit association…
Enlarge / AI-generated image by FLUX.1 dev: “A beautiful queen of the universe holding up her hands, face in the background.” (credit: FLUX.1) On Thursday, AI-startup Black Forest Labs announced the launch of its company and the release of its first suite of text-to-image AI models, called FLUX.1. The German-based company, founded by researchers who…
On the heels of Apple rolling out an early preview of iOS 18.1 with its first generative AI (genAI) tools, IDC this week released a report saying nearly three-in-four smartphones will be running AI features in four years. Apple first announced its plans to add AI features to devices through its Apple Intelligence platform at…
Apple beat expectations in its third quarter and has wind beneath its wings on strength of the recent Microsoft/Crowdstrike debacle that cost companies billions of dollars. The tide is turning, and turning fast. Regular readers will know we’ve been reporting on the steady rise of Apple in the enterprise over the last decade or so. By focusing on…