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So far, the Skull and Bones beta has just made me want to play Sea of Thieves again
Ransomware operations made more than $1 billion in 2023
Chainalysis has just released its latest report on the ransomware business in 2023. According to data analyzed by the “blockchain data platform” company, ransomware actors intensified their operations, choosing their targets among “high-profile” organizations and critical infrastructures, including hospitals, schools, and government agencies.
Best Soulslikes to play in 2024 (that aren’t made by FromSoftware)
We still don’t have a proper name for action RPGs that take inspiration – primarily – from the work of storied Japanese studio, FromSoftware. We have a shorthand for them; Soulslikes, and the term generally refers to a core set of principles.
Soulslike RPGs typically have a form of challenging gameplay. Sometimes that’s achieved through limiting, stamina-based combat, but it could also take the form of a tight parry/dodge window, or animation-led combat that requires planning and punish mindless mashing. Soulslikes are usually set in grim, hopeless worlds, and they can sometimes get ostentatious about what are otherwise mundane concepts.
The really good ones have level design that foreshadows some of what’s to come, and often loops back on itself to really give meaning to your journey through it. But the genre mostly just relies on catching your eye with some cool enemy designs or unusual topographies that, hopefully, compel you to explore them.
The guy who made Daggerfall Unity is working on his own original Daggerfall-style RPG with a custom engine
Blackbird Interactive has made the decision to delay the launch of Homeworld 3 to May 13
Blackbird Interactive has decided to keep the mothership in dock for another eight weeks
Fortnite is getting a Disney universe made by Epic Games
PlayStation’s creative game-making toybox Dreams apparently almost made it to PC, but now it’s dead
A PC version of Dreams, the PlayStation 4-exclusive toybox-slash-game creation platform from LittleBigPlanet makers Media Molecule, was nearly completed before being cancelled late last year, according to a new report.
Apple made an AI image tool that lets you make edits by describing them
Apple researchers released a new model that lets users describe in plain language what they want to change in a photo without ever touching photo editing software.
The MGIE model, which Apple worked on with the University of California, Santa Barbara, can crop, resize, flip, and add filters to images all through text prompts.
MGIE, which stands for MLLM-Guided Image Editing, can be applied to simple and more complex image editing tasks like modifying specific objects in a photo to make them a different shape or come off brighter. The model blends two different uses of multimodal language models. First, it learns how to interpret user prompts. Then it “imagines” what the edit would look like (asking for a bluer sky in a photo becomes…
Someone’s added a giant Terrormorph boss made of gold to Starfield, and it looks pretty hilarious to fight
If you’ve found Starfield’s universe to be a bit too boring for your tastes then I’ve got good news – a modder’s had a go at adding a giant golden Terrormorph boss fight to it that looks like it’s anything but that.
Yes, while a lot of modders are largely sticking with the likes of Fallout 4 and Skyrim now we’re at the point where it seems like Starfield’s Creation Kit probably needs to arrive before people can really start trying to unleash its full modding potential, some devoted folks are still working on or planning interesting mods for it in the interim. One of these definitely looks like a fun reason to pay a visit to Earth, if nothing else.
This is the point where I introduce you to the “Hephaestus Hound”, the latest creation of modder InquisitorOverhaulsReturn. Yes, it’s a giant Terrormorph boss with solid gold skin, that you can find just chilling near the Cairo landmark on Starfield’s version of Earth. Why’s it got golden skin? Greek mythology is the answer.