Is Palworld a “dead game”? Who cares, says the game’s developer

Is Palworld a “dead game”? Who cares, says the game’s developer

Enlarge / If you stopped enjoyed shooting adorable widdle monsters with an assault rifle after a while, Palworld‘s team wants you to know that’s normal and cool. Pocketpair Palworld‘s head of community has a radical idea: Stop caring about how many people are playing a game at the same time as you. It’s pitched mostly…

Helldivers 2 developer roleplaying makes for the more lore-accurate support experience ever – Destructoid

Helldivers 2 developer roleplaying makes for the more lore-accurate support experience ever – Destructoid

One Helldivers 2 player reached out to the developer’s support team using a little roleplaying flair and had the best experience with a team member I’ve seen in a long time. This brings the Ministry of Truth to life in an entirely new way and extends the game’s lore in an unexpected way. User SurrexSnek…

ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode impresses testers with sound effects, catching its breath

ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode impresses testers with sound effects, catching its breath

Enlarge / A stock photo of a robot whispering to a man. (credit: AndreyPopov via Getty Images) On Tuesday, OpenAI began rolling out an alpha version of its new Advanced Voice Mode to a small group of ChatGPT Plus subscribers. This feature, which OpenAI previewed in May with the launch of GPT-4o, aims to make…

Next-gen Intel Core Ultra chips with boosted GPU and NPU are coming in September

Next-gen Intel Core Ultra chips with boosted GPU and NPU are coming in September

Enlarge / Intel’s Lunar Lake Core Ultra CPUs will be announced in September. Intel Intel announced today that it plans to launch its next-generation Core Ultra laptop chips on September 3, just ahead of this year’s IFA conference in Berlin. This announcement-of-an-announcement offers few specifics on what the next-gen chips will be like beyond promising “breakthrough…

Xbox console sales continue to crater with massive 42% revenue drop

Xbox console sales continue to crater with massive 42% revenue drop

Enlarge / The tumbling continues. Microsoft’s revenue from Xbox console sales was down a whopping 42 percent on a year-over-year basis for the quarter ending in June, the company announced in its latest earnings report. The massive drop continues a long, pronounced slide for sales of Microsoft’s gaming hardware—the Xbox line has now shown year-over-year…

Dead by Daylight 2v8 Mode is helping fans convince their friends to play

Dead by Daylight 2v8 Mode is helping fans convince their friends to play

Behaviour Interactive released Dead by Daylight 2v8 Mode as a limited-time event to gauge player interest and gather feedback for future iterations. Interestingly, the game mode has managed to achieve something players haven’t been able to in the eight years the game has been out: Getting their friends to play. Players on the Dead by…

Mysterious family of malware hid in Google Play for years

Mysterious family of malware hid in Google Play for years

Enlarge A mysterious family of Android malware with a demonstrated history of effectively concealing its myriad spying activities has once again been found in Google Play after more than two years of hiding in plain sight. The apps, disguised as file-sharing, astronomy, and cryptocurrency apps, hosted Mandrake, a family of highly intrusive malware that security…