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ซีรีส์ The Last of Us ของ HBO ได้รับคำชื่นชมจำนวนมากจากแฟน ๆ ทำให้กระแสเกมซีรีส์นี้ดีขึ้นตามไปด้วย โดยในตอนนี้มีแฟนเกมหลายคนกำลังรอคอยว่าเกมในดวงใจของพวกเขาจะถูกสร้าง Part III มาให้เราได้เล่นกันหรือไม่

ล่าสุดทาง Neil Druckmann ได้ออกมาให้สัมภาษณ์กับทาง Buzzfeed ไว้ว่า The Last of Us Part III จะเกิดขึ้นได้ต่อเมื่อมีเนื้อเรื่องที่ดีเพียงพอ

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Activision Blizzard chief communications officer Lulu Cheng Meservey says the success of The Last of Us on HBO is proof positive that Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard should be allowed to proceed.

HBO’s The Last of Us adaptation is a massive hit, and not just by the relatively low game-to-film standards we’ve grown used to. Multiple sites described the series as “the best videogame adaptation ever” when it premiered earlier this month, and it holds an enviable 97% critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes. And it’s not just for game fans: Esquire called the most recent episode “a TV moment we’ll never forget,” and it’s sparked serious talk about Emmy and Golden Globe contention for supporting actor Nick Offerman.

That success prompted Meservey to speak up, and specifically to ask the FTC if it had caught the most recent episode and note that it is “a true blockbuster, watched by tens of millions.”

“If you haven’t already, you should check it out,” Meservey tweeted. “You may be particularly interested in the fact that The Last of Us is produced by Sony Pictures Television and PlayStation Productions. It’s based on a best-selling video game dev…

เปิดตัวรูปแบบ Early Access กันมาพักใหญ่ๆ เลยสำหรับ Vigor ผลงานจากค่าย Bohemia Interactive ผู้อยู่เบื้องหลัง DayZ ที่เคยเปิดศักราชของเกมรูปแบบ PvP Looting เป็นเจ้าแรกๆ ตั้งแต่ Xbox เรื่อยมาจนถึงคอนโซลรุ่นอื่นๆ และตอนนี้ก็ถึงคิวของ PC ผ่านร้านค้า Steam แล้วโดยตอนนี้ได้เปิดให้ผู้เล่นสามารถเข้าเล่นได้แบบฟรีโดยไม่มีค่าใช้จ่ายตั้งแต่วันนี้เป็นต้นไป ใครที่รอเล่นอยู่หาตี้กันได้เลยครับ

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เปิดตัวกันเป็นที่เรียบร้อยสำหรับตัวละครเด่นอย่างSteve Foxนักมวยที่มีมูฟเซ็ตแตกต่างจากนักสู้คนอื่นเพราะว่าจะอาศัยการใช้หมัดในการต่อสู้กันแบบรัวๆ โดยไม่ใช้ลูกเตะ ด้วยความเท่ของมูฟเซ็ตนี้และหน้าตาที่หล่อเหลาแถมยังมีส่วนเกี่ยวข้องกับตัวละครสำคัญอย่าง Nina ก็ทำให้ตัวละครนี้ได้รับความนิยมและติดโผเป็นนักสู้ในเกมมายาวนานตั้งแต่ภาค 4 แบบไม่หลุดจากผังเลยสักภาค

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When I was writing about pirate games you should play instead of Skull and Bones, I had to give a nod to Blackwake, even though it didn’t quite make the cut. The multiplayer naval FPS   left early access back in 2020, after making a bit of a splash initially on YouTube thanks to its emergent mayhem. Think of it as a more aggressive, less cartoonish Sea of Thieves, where the focus is on blowing up ships and fighting their crews. Sadly, the player count dwindled soon after, and it stopped receiving updates before the year was out. 

Possibly in response to Skull and Bones’ launch, someone from the now defunct studio is attempting to inject new life into the game, specifically by making it free to keep. Hop onto Steam and you can download it right now without spending any of your booty. 

It’s a pretty good strategy for any game stuck in playerless purgatory. Obviously it’s not making any money as it stands, so keeping the cost of entry isn’t doing anyone any good. Unfortunately, it’s likely that this shedding of the price is the last update we’ll see for Blackwake. The studio no longer exists, the website is gone, and with no upfront cost, DLC or micr…

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Today’s Xbox Games Showcase wrapped up with a bang: A new Gears of War is on the way—and it’s a prequel.

“Experience the brutal horror of Emergence Day through the eyes of Marcus Fenix in the origin story of one of gaming’s most acclaimed sagas,” Microsoft said. 

“Fourteen years before Gears of War, war heroes Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago return home to face a new nightmare: the Locust Horde. These subterranean monsters, grotesque and relentless, erupt from below, laying siege on humanity itself.”

And as the trailer wraps up and the slow piano kicks in, it reminds us that this new game really is a return to the beginning: It’s a mad, mad world, alright.

“It’s going to feel like a new Gears game, because that’s what it is,” creative director Matt Searcy said. “It’s us revisiting the tone and the feeling of what makes Gears great, but we’re tapping into new techniques, new processes, and new technology that’s going to make the gameplay feel better than ever. It’s going to be awesome, a game that feels both truly new, and authentically Gears.”

But Gears of War: E-Day also promises to deliver a ve…

Nvidia’s cloud gaming platform, GeForce Now, will cease its operations in Russia on October 1. Starting September 1, Nvidia partner GFN.ru will close registration for new users and discontinue the sale of GeForce Now subscriptions in the country. 

GeForce Now is joining other cloud gaming platforms like Xbox Cloud Gaming and Boosteroid, which have ended streaming services in Russia over the last year.

GeForce Now has operated in Russia through partner company GFN.ru since its launch in 2019. GFN.ru announced in a blog post (spotted by Overclockers.ru) that due to “the current circumstances,” it “cannot provide the quality of service” that meets its standards or that its users “expect and deserve.”

Nvidia relies upon a network of partners to distribute its cloud gaming service worldwide, such as LG U+ and Softbank, which handle Asian territories, and Abya, which services South America. 

On October 1, GFN.ru will shut down its servers, and subscribers with active subscriptions beyond October 1 will receive a refund. Aside from sanctions resulting from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, Overclockers.ru attributes the shutdown to low streaming ad…

I like to imagine that one day, when I tune in to a Ubisoft quarterly financial call, CEO Yves Guillemot will come on and say in his French accent, “Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from Hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee! Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! And since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale!”

That hasn’t happened yet, but spiritually I think we’re way beyond the Ahab threshold at this point—because yes, that’s right, Skull and Bones, Ubisoft’s eternally-not-quite-ready game of high-seas piracy, has been delayed. Again.

I don’t even know if I can fairly call it a delay, since the last time we had an actual release date was September 2022, when Ubisoft pushed the launch from November 8, 2022 to March 9 of this year. Which obviously didn’t happen.

Since then, it was pushed to sometime “early” in Ubisoft’s 2023-24 fiscal year, and then not so early in the year, and now late in it. For the record, the fourth-quarter timeframe means Skull and Bones now …

Proponents of generative AI would often have you believe that such systems are all about making serious improvements to your productivity and work. But for owners of Arc graphics cards, Intel believes you should just have fun and mess around with it. To that end, it has released a beta version of AI Playground, a free and open-source application that lets you use your Alchemist GPU to generate and edit AI images and talk nonsense with a chatbot.

Intel first teased AI Playground at Computex, earlier this year, and now a public beta version of the app is available to download for Windows. You’ll need an Arc graphics card with 8 GB or more of VRAM—it won’t run on any other GPU, unfortunately.

The installation will pull a copy of Python off the Internet if you don’t have it already installed. If you do have Python on your gaming PC and AI Playground crashes when you run it, it’s probably a version conflict and the only option to resolve the problem, at the moment, is to remove all instances of Python you currently have.

AI Playground’s main features are the text-to-image and image-to-image generative tools that use Stable Diffusion 1.5 as the primary model of…

Iron Lung has just had a major update that includes a ‘Markiplier mode’. This indie horror game grew in popularity after the YouTuber did a full playthrough last year that gained over 8 million views, and he enjoyed it so much that he is currently directing and starring in an Iron Lung film adaptation. The latest update adds a handful of cheats, ‘Markiplier mode’ being the silliest new addition. Once activated your vessel is plastered with multiple Markiplier meme faces from top to bottom.

To those unfamiliar with this indie horror, you are a convict tasked with exploring a blood ocean in a rickety submersible called the Iron Lung. All habitable planets and stars have vanished in what’s called the ‘Quiet Rapture’ and only baron moons, space stations, and asteroids remain. This ocean is found on one of those moons. The only way to see what surrounds your vessel is by taking a photo and seeing what appears on your screen. The game did recently gather some attention as comparisons between its premise and the Titan submersible situation were made on Twitter. The games developer David Szymanski posted a tweet showing increased sales during that time saying “it feels so wrong”.<…

Despite reports it is killing Hyperthreading in its upcoming desktop processors, Intel has shown off a new chip with an unfeasible number of threads coming off each core. Traditionally, you get two threads per core with the current simultaneous multi-threading on modern AMD and Intel CPUs, but this new optical chip is demonstrating 66 threads per core.

While optical interconnects and things like glass substrates are expected to become part of future chip manufacturing and packaging designs, it’s this core design that really grabbed our attention. It’s an 8-core chip. Pretty standard fare there, but it has 528 threads! That’s 66 threads per core. Hyperthreading? More like super-mega-ultra-hyperthreading.

The annual Hot Chips conference took place this week. It’s a forum for industry participants to discuss their latest and greatest tech, and give us a peek at what to expect in the future.

Serve The Home attended Hot Chips and reported on a CPU project presented by Intel. This chip was interesting for more than one reason. Firstly, the chip in question showed off a direct mesh to mesh photonic fabric. This technology could evolve to become be the…

PC manufacturers like to throw around terms like revolutionary or transformative, but following Qualcomm’s entry into the PC market and the announcement of Microsoft’s Copilot+ AI laptops, the market is at an inflection point as significant as any we’ve seen in years.

Microsoft has unveiled Copilot+ PC’s, including its own Surface family, which feature integrated NPUs that offer 40+ TOPS (trillion operations per second) of performance. This gives them the performance to utilize a new generation of AI functionality that is coming to Windows 11. 

Microsoft talked up a number of AI experiences that will only be possible on Copilot+ PCs. These include Recall, Cocreator and Live Captions.

Recall is a kind of super ‘history’ tool that runs in the background. It allows you to search for anything you’ve done on your PC. If the Internet remembers, apparently your PC will too. Cocreator is an art or image generation assistant, while Live Captions does pretty much what you’d expect, generating captions in real time. Hopefully they’re better than some of the rubbish YouTube can serve up.

“Copilot+ PCs powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Series deliver perfo…

I’ve never seen anyone look as good in a Vault suit as the actors in the Fallout show. The licensed Vault-Tec jumpsuits you can get from costume stores are spandex disasters, but even more expensive Vault suits aimed at cosplayers look a bit pajama-like. The show’s jumpsuits, however, are form-fitting without being superhero-tight, and don’t seem to limit movement whatsoever—they look comfy, but also cool, or at least as cool as a blue and yellow jumpsuit that designates you as a sheltered nerd can look.

Well, there’s a reason. Vault 33’s main sartorial advantage was of course having a team of expert costumers on hand to custom make their outfits, but those retro sci-fi tailors also had a secret weapon: hard-to-get Italian fabric.

In the games, Vault suits do sometimes cling to muscles, but Fallout show costume designer Amy Westcott, whose other credits include Black Swan, Nightcrawler, and The Wrestler, wanted to avoid “shiny, spandex, sort of superheroes stuff.”

“We were dealing with real people with real bodies,” Westcott said in a recent interview with PC Gamer. “So it was a lot about what could look universally flattering in a way that wasn’t skin ti…

If you’ve had a hankering for a chaotic open-world survival game full of players that will gun you down on sight (or just want to see how long you’ll survive in a zombie apocalypse), then Steam’s Pioneer Survival Pack sale has you covered. 

From March 7 to March 14, you can buy Rust and DayZ at 40% off their combined value at $50.98/ £41.38. Rust has been around since 2013, with a five-year-early access period, but it still has a dedicated community. 

“DayZ was one of the initial inspirations behind Rust, way back in early 2013, so it’s exciting to finally be releasing a bundle featuring both games that we’re so proud of,” Alistair McFarlane, a producer at Facepunch Studios, said in a press release. 

If you’ve been trying to convince a few friends to join the fight and help you survive in these unforgiving lobbies or be around to avenge you when a random player inevitably guns you down and steals all your stuff, then this bundle’s a perfect way to push that sales pitch over the line. 

Rust has previously been cheaper (its lowest price sitting at $8.74/ £6.94), but the last discount was only 33% off in December, …