Ubisoft revealed an AI NPC prototype at GDC and everyone online made fun of it

NEO NPC is currently showing off some not-so-great dialogue It’sGDCweek, and conversations are being had about AI. It’s the usual pitch. “Have you ever dreamed of having arealconversation with an NPC in a video game? “, asks Ubi’sofficial postabout it. Currently NEO NPC uses Nvidias Audio2Face app and Inworlds Large Language Model to do al this. Ubisoft’s post also gestures vaguely at the concerns people have with AI. Generative AI is only of value if it has value for them....

March 20, 2024 · 2 min · 216 words · Melanie Lopez

Uncharted director’s Black Panther and Captain America game revealed as Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra, out 2025

TChallas granddad and a fresh-faced Cap will be joined by a US soldier and Wakandan spy in WW2 Paris Weve known that a Marvel game from former Uncharted writer-director Amy Hennig has been in the worksfor years,learning in 2022that it will focus on Captain America andBlack Pantherduring World War 2. Thanks to aproper revealduring todays State of Unreal event, we now know that itll be calledMarvel 1943: Rise of Hydraand well be able to play it sometime in 2025....

March 20, 2024 · 2 min · 353 words · Diane Cruz

What's better: drawing Frog Detective's magnifying glass or drawing Blade Runner's gun?

I understand why you decided that. Your fondness for this thing makes perfect sense. It is very helpful. An immensely practical thing. And still… ah, we must move on. This week, I ask you to pick between two right different right-clickings. What’s better: drawing Frog Detective’s magnifying glass or drawingBlade Runner’s gun? As the second-best investigator, Frog Detective will need to scrutinise clues and suspects to help solve strange cases....

March 20, 2024 · 2 min · 266 words · Brian Miller

With Bungie’s reboot of their ‘90s FPS a year away, free fan revival Classic Marathon wins the race onto Steam

All those are optional if you want to relive the days of 1994, mind. Itll be able to play cross-platform multiplayer with those running Aleph One on Mac and Linux, though.

March 20, 2024 · 1 min · 31 words · Breanna Schroeder

Wordle hints and answer (#1005): How to solve the Wednesday March 20 Wordle

Stuck on the Wordle word for March 20? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Tuesday 22nd April! Use ourWordle Solver toolto help you figure out the answer to any Wordle in moments! Just pop your current guesses in the grid and watch the tool instantly give you all the potential answers....

March 20, 2024 · 2 min · 390 words · Jonathan Alvarado

How to get the Thruster Boost in Lightyear Frontier

you’re able to collect Pods every few days during Noxious encounters at your base. Once you flush the Slime and Weeds, they will leave behind Noxious Pods which look like pink bubbles. Remember to collect these as they are a valuable by-product. The upgrade requires the following ingredients: Warning: Late-game spoilers ahead for where to get the above ingredients. To get the ingredients required for the upgrade, you oughta havecleared all map biomes....

March 19, 2024 · 1 min · 127 words · Alan Johnson

How to increase carrying capacity in Lightyear Frontier

To craft these, you’ll first need to build anUpgrade Depotfrom the build menu. Afterwards, dock your Mech into the Depot and use the console to craft a Mech Upgrade. These can be made at an Assembler machine with two Aluminum Rods and one Copper Wire. Aluiminum is a common ore deposit within the Meadows biome. Copper can be found within theEdge Cliffsbiome. After you have made this upgrade, your carry capacity shouldincrease from 60 to 90....

March 19, 2024 · 1 min · 212 words · Anthony Cook

How to make Clear, Yellow, Red and Blue Lens in Lightyear Frontier

Clear, Red, Blue and Yellow Lens all vary in rarity and require several different steps to make. However, they all also require access to aGrinder and Furnace. you’ve got the option to build these from within the build menu. This grows within theYellow Forestbut is a hardier resource that requires theSpike Saw Power II upgradeto collect. Yellow Crystal solely grows on theMountainside Coastand requires theSpike Saw Power IIIupgrade to harvest....

March 19, 2024 · 1 min · 104 words · Brian Rodriguez

Hyper Light Breaker's 3D reworking of Drifter's combat is promising but a little raw

A dimension too far? Despite this, I was repeatedly caught out. In general, I found my character to be unwieldy and a little unresponsive. Again, all this is based on just 20 minutes of playtime. And credit where it’s due, there were many things I loved. Won’t people hey stop accessorising the gazelles?

March 19, 2024 · 1 min · 53 words · Jessica Mcclain

Lightyear Frontier Nest locations and how to make Fodder

Meadows Nest locations The Meadows is the first biome you’ll explore in Lightyear Frontier. The image below shows the map locations of all Nests in The Meadows biome. To erase the map, you must use your Irrigation Hose to clear away all the Noxious Slime. Once done, wait an in-game day and you’ll then be able to feed the local Nests. These Nest locations are shown in the below map image....

March 19, 2024 · 2 min · 285 words · David Davis

NYT Connections hint and answers (Tuesday, March 19)

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #282 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint for Tuesday 22nd April! It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start. We’ll also explain how to play Connections if this is your first time coming over from Wordle! If not, check just below for the full answer....

March 19, 2024 · 1 min · 134 words · Tiffany Owens

Protecting art from generative AI is vital, now and for the future

Building and training machine learning systems often requires data a lotof data. Sometimes were lucky, and we can make our own data. Sometimes we cant make our own data. In art, defining winners and losers is considerably harder. But where do we find that? Where we find the answer to every problem in life: on random websites. Theyre also massive, with one popular dataset, LAION-5b, containing over fivebillionimages. These images are all gathered automatically, with very minimal attempts to filter the contents....

March 19, 2024 · 2 min · 226 words · Eddie Reed

RPS Game Club Asks: what do you think of Darktide?

But what sayyou, dear readers? Instead, lets sayThursday March 28th, at 4pm GMT. I forget how to calendar sometimes. How do you find it? A steady source of new toys, or a grindy load of kark? Whos your favourite class? Ive jumped fences from Veteran to Ogryn to Zealot, and more recently back to Ogryn. Big man, big deeps. Are you a multi-class Reject? For those who are familiar with 40K, how does Darktide fit in?...

March 19, 2024 · 1 min · 116 words · Thomas Wright