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Hogwarts Legacy Gets NVIDIA DLSS 5 Upgrade on GeForce NOW
Hogwarts Legacy is receiving NVIDIA DLSS 5 with 3D-Guided Neural Rendering on GeForce NOW, adding lifelike lighting and material detail to the wizarding world. NVIDIA is…
Safety and ethicsBoston law firm probes DraftKings over AI targeting of gamblers
Boston class action firm Shapiro Haber & Urmy, LLP says it is investigating potential consumer claims against DraftKings over its alleged use of artificial intelligence…
Tripo AI Launches Agentic Canvas for Node-Based 3D Workflows
Tripo AI has launched Tripo Agentic Canvas, an AI agent that builds and runs 3D workflows on a visual, node-based canvas. According to the company, users can inspect…
ATTACK SHARK X60 headset pairs 53mm drivers with an RGB wireless charging dock
ATTACK SHARK has introduced the X60 Gaming Headset, a wireless model built around a 53mm dynamic driver and an RGB touch-enabled charging dock that also works as a…
Arm and Sumo release Neural Dawn, a mobile game built on neural graphics
Neural Dawn, a mobile game co-developed by Arm and Sumo, is now available to download on the latest devices powered by the Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU. According to Arm, it…
WaterField Designs launches Shield Case for Valve's Steam Frame VR headset
WaterField Designs has introduced the Shield Case for Steam Frame, a compact protective case for Valve's Steam Frame VR headset, which ships without a dedicated carrying…
NVIDIA RTX Spark Laptops Get Transcription Model, GPU Controls for Agents
NVIDIA has introduced Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open weight speech model, and added GPU resource controls for background AI agents on its RTX Spark Windows laptops.…
transcosmos and Metaverse Creators bring VRChat 3D content to Geek Jack
transcosmos has partnered with Tokyo-based Metaverse Creators Inc. to sell VRChat avatars, outfits and other 3D content to buyers worldwide through Geek Jack, its…
NVIDIA RTX Spark Gets DLSS 5, On-Device AI Characters and Neural Rendering Tools
NVIDIA has laid out how game developers can build for RTX Spark, its new Windows PC platform for slim laptops and compact desktops. The update covers DLSS 5 with…
Higgsfield launches Playable Ads for Enterprise and Playable Games for all plans
Higgsfield has introduced Playable Ads, an Enterprise-only workflow for building interactive ads with AI, alongside Playable Games, a mobile game tool available on all…
Wayfarer lets AI agents discover their own skills and master Atari games
Researchers at Amii have introduced Wayfarer, a reinforcement learning architecture that discovers its own reusable skills, called options, without human data…
ModelsTripo AI Releases EdenLive, an Open-Source Real-Time Generative Renderer
Tripo AI has launched EdenLive, a real-time generative renderer that turns rough visuals from coding agents or game engines into more detailed video. According to the…
Decision Models Struggle at Tic-Tac-Toe From Screenshots, Arize Finds
Arize AI tested whether image-capable decision models can play games from screenshots, and in tic-tac-toe the answer was mostly no. Two LLMs drew 39 of 40 games against…
ASUS ROG XBOX Ally X20 goes on sale at US$1,299 with OLED display
ASUS Republic of Gamers has made the ROG XBOX Ally X20 available for purchase, pricing the 20th anniversary handheld at US$1,299 on its own or US$2,499 in a bundle with…
NVIDIA brings DLSS 4.5 controls to GeForce NOW, plus Enshrouded 1.0
NVIDIA has added DLSS 4.5 controls to GeForce NOW, giving members more choice over how supported games look and perform in the cloud. The update comes with the full…
NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops launch Oct. 16 with local AI agent tools and apps
NVIDIA and its partners are rolling out software updates ahead of the Oct. 16 launch of RTX Spark laptops, focusing on local AI agents, a new open source Nemotron model…
ResearchRobot Arms in Orbit, a Google Game Builder and AI Skin Checks Top This Week's Data News
NASA will test autonomous robotic arms from startup Orbital Robotics aboard the International Space Station, one of ten data and AI stories in the Center for Data…
Gears of War: E-Day Arrives on GeForce NOW, Fire TV Memberships Coming
Gears of War: E-Day is now streaming on NVIDIA's GeForce NOW cloud gaming service, following its global release on Tuesday, Oct. 6. NVIDIA also said Fire TV users will…
CMU's Ataraxos AI Beats Top Human Players at Stratego
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have built an AI system called Ataraxos that can outperform even the best human players in Stratego, a board game in which…
Dell unveils XPS 16 Creator Edition, its first XPS with NVIDIA RTX Spark
Dell Technologies has introduced the XPS 16 Creator Edition, which the company describes as its first XPS laptop with NVIDIA RTX Spark™ technology. According to Dell…
Google launches Playground, a platform to create and play custom games
Google has introduced Playground, an experimental gaming platform where users can create, play and share custom games by describing them in text prompts, with no coding…
Hidden Door updates its story engine with a tool-using AI Dungeon Master
Hidden Door has updated the core turn-by-turn engine behind its interactive stories, introducing an "agentic story harness" in which a tool-using model acts as the…
ResearchNew AI system Ataraxos beats top human players at Stratego
A research team from MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, New York University and Stanford University has built an AI system called Ataraxos that defeated top-ranked human…