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Ok, yep, it's one of RPS' biggest New Vegas/Fallout heads, here to tell you about some New Vegas mods that've recently dropped. Why? You might ask that. You're quite right to. It's because there's a general Fallout modathon going on over on Nexus Mods right now, and I've spotted a few works released as part of it so far which I reckon are worth informing you of. Especially since next month's gearing up to be pretty damn New Vegasy, thanks to a certain TV series. Read more View the full article

Ho there, embarrassing Baldur's Gate 3 fans! Not had enough D&D in your life lately? Pining for the Owlbears, is it? Feeling a bit shrivelled for lack of magic missiles? Baby want some Helldusk Armor? Perhaps you will be consoled by Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked. It's a Forgotten Realms-themed adaptation of Resolution's Demeo, a co-op tactical RPG co-created by former Left 4 Dead developer Mike Booth, which is itself a homage to tabletop. Read more View the full article

A bit of creepy crawly, low-key city building? Ah, go on then. October and Halloween might be behind us, but Fangtopia is a puzzle game stroke city builder that still feels appropriate for late autumn. Having had a go with its demo, it's deceptively simple, in fact it felt so simple I wasn't entirely sure if I was doing anything at all. But when it clicked, all the pieces fell into place resulting in a pleasantly chill time. Read more View the full article

Here's a sentence I am very glad to write: the first Citizen Sleeper-like is here! Or at least the first one I'm aware of (and the actual genre is dice-driven RPG, no more something-likes, ok?). It's called Dusk Punk, which mixes the narrative and mechanical framework established by Citizen Sleeper with the aesthetics and world of games like Dishonored, and it's out today. Read more View the full article

Anyone order a free Mafia: The Old Country update? Well, whether you did or not, a free update is what you're getting. This one's quite features driven, focusing a lot of challenges and cosmetics, but there's a few new weapons and the like too. Let's take a little look-see! Read more View the full article

Ark is one of those strange series to me that seems to have a ridiculous amount of cash to dispense, what with its star-studded cast in the animated adaptation. Gerard Butler and bloody Michelle Yeoh are in it! Not to mention David Tenant, Elliot Page, Russel Crowe and Vin Diesel, the final of whom is meant to be in the borderline MIA Ark 2. But some of those voices will be appearing in-game through Ark: Survival Ascended's next expansion, Lost Colony, which now has a release date! Read more View the full article

It's been seven years since the first Moonlighter, and in all that time, I've somehow never noticed that the title is a reference to sleepless penury. My mind jumped to the association of moonlight with magic and romance, skimming clean over the less enchanting sense of "moonlighting" as working a second job after dark. Luckily, this knowledge has dawned on me just in time to softly kneecap my enthusiasm for Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault, which launches into early access today, and appears quite a bit different from its predecessor. Read more View the full article

I won't comment on the quality of Marathon, the game, because I've not had the chance to play it, though obviously it's not been received with all that much fanfare. You know what I did quite like? Marathon, the short film, the one that came with the game's reveal from Alberto Mielgo. It felt like a strong promise of a (more-or-less) fresh sci-fi world, the performances were subdued, it felt larger than life. Good stuff! Yet as many things currently are, it's been scrutinised over potential AI use, prompting Mielgo to put out a (understandably aggro) statement. Read more View the full article

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On Monday, Hypixel co-founder Simon Collins-Laflamme revealed the good news that he'd followed through on saying he'd chat to Riot Games about buying the rights to the Minecrafty sandbox game Hytale by buying the rights to said game. Now, with an independent team back working on the game following the closure of itsoriginal studio, Collins-Laflamme and co have shared a 16 minute look at what Hytale's currently like to play. Read more View the full article

I was unaware of incremental mystery management sim Asbury Pines till kindly Mr_B mentioned it in this week's Maw round-up. It launches into early access today, and has a pretty lung-emptying setup. You're trying to solve a murder in a hitherto sleepy small American town. To do this, you must oversee and make connections between around 50 characters - some of them animals and plants - across 12 historical eras, spewing your brain outward from the present day to the Stone Age and the post-apocalyptic future. This is presented as a dense and whirring mixtable of icons, bars, progression trees, timelines, and story cards, like a 4X research tree but with a narrative shoved through it. Did you think you were being a clever custard with your swanky evidence board in Alan Wake 2? Try Asbury Pines on for size, gumshoe - it's like Cloud Atlas for accountants. They do call it "accessible" in marketing materials, mind. Read more View the full article

Microsoft have delivered a timely reminder that AI isn’t just effective at injecting ugly, soulless anti-art and nonsense robochat into your games – it also has the power to ruin your entire PC. MS recently updated a support article explaining the 'agentic AI' features they plan to roll out for Windows 11, which involve creating a separate desktop instance and allowing AI 'agents' to perform supposedly menial tasks (like file sorting and email sending) within it. All while you kick back on your main workspace, online shopping for the third yacht that the AI revolution has surely enabled you to afford. Unfortunately, among the agents’ capabilities is the risk of installing malware. Read more View the full article

Further down the page there are horrifying phrases like "makes Europa Universalis seem limited" and "every planet and moon and asteroid, all orbiting in real time", woven through a fascinating account of a game that is sort of XCOM, but you're organising a whole Earth's worth of competing countries and factions to repel solar system invaders who may not even materialise for dozens of hours. But of course Hooded Horse are publishing it. This was one of their first signings, I believe. Those sickos. Read more View the full article

It's been tradition for as long as anyone can remember, that the team at RPS ends the year by choosing their favourite 24 games from the preceding 12 months. In December, we reveal our picks day-by-day. We call this the RPS Advent Calendar. Read more View the full article

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is getting another new class, revealed last night as the Hive Scum. They’re a suitably skull-adorned outlaw who can dual-wield guns or shivs, while indulging in a cheeky bit of chemical warfare by homebrewing stimulants and lacing their weapons with harmful chems. Basically the opposite of the space-narc Arbites class added this summer, then: they got exploding dogs, the Hive Scum gets exploding drugs. Read more View the full article

The Rock Paper Shotgun CMS groaned like a harpooned whale when I fed the above game title into our database. I was tempted to shave away some punctuation for the benefit of whoever writes about this game next, but then I remembered that I hate everybody here as I do hell, all Montagues, and thee. Anyway, what a title. It's like Type Moon and Kingdom Hearts fell into a cyberpunk snakepit. I don't even know what half the characters are called. They appear malevolently polarised, pushing other letters away from them. They seem... primordial somehow. Our distant ancestors used to hack brackets like those into the walls of caverns, when they wished to add inessential tips about flint storage to paintings of hunters getting tusked by mammoths. Read more View the full article

Sometimes things happen that you can't control. That's now been the case for developers Permadeath and their 2D sandbox Planet Centauri twice on Steam, with first a wishlist bug and more recently the reveal of Valve's new hardware landing at just the right time to make the devs' task of getting eyeballs on their game more challenging than it would normally be. Read more View the full article

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Timed with the Microsoft Ignite conference running this week, NVIDIA is expanding its collaboration with Microsoft, including through the adoption of next-generation NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet switches for the new Microsoft Fairwater AI superfactory, powered by the NVIDIA Blackwell platform. The collaboration brings new integrations across Microsoft 365 Copilot, as well as the public preview of next-generation Azure NC Series VMs powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, NVIDIA Nemotron integrations to accelerate AI for Microsoft SQL Server 2025, capabilities for onboarding AI agents in Microsoft 365 and optimizations for high-performance inference, cybersecurity and physical AI. Microsoft’s AI Superfactory connects the landmark Fairwater data center in Wisconsin with a new, state-of-the-art facility in Atlanta, Georgia. This massive-scale infrastructure will integrate hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs for large-scale training. In addition, Microsoft is deploying more than 100,000 Blackwell Ultra GPUs in NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems being deployed globally for inference. “Our collaboration with NVIDIA is built on driving innovation across the entire system and full stack, from silicon to services,” said Nidhi Chappell, corporate vice president of product management at Microsoft. “By coupling Microsoft Azure’s unmatched data center scale with NVIDIA’s accelerated computing, we are maximizing AI data center performance and efficiency, which is of paramount importance for our customers leading the new AI era.” The most demanding workloads for OpenAI, the Microsoft AI Superintelligence Team, Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Foundry services will be powered by this infrastructure. Customers like Black Forest Labs are also using NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems to train next-generation multimodal FLUX models that power visual intelligence. To connect this massive infrastructure, Microsoft is deploying next-generation NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet switches in its Fairwater AI data center — the largest and most sophisticated AI factories ever built — delivering the performance, scale and efficiency required for OpenAI to run large-scale AI models and applications. New Azure NCv6 Series VMs with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs are now in public preview on Azure, expanding the Blackwell platform to provide right-sized acceleration for multiple workloads including multimodal agentic AI, industrial digitalization with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries, scientific simulation and visual computing. This flexibility extends from the cloud to the edge with Azure Local, enabling powerful sovereign AI solutions while bringing low-latency, real-time AI to wherever data needs to reside. This allows enterprises to seamlessly develop, deploy and manage AI-powered digital twins and generative AI applications with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs from the Azure cloud directly to their factory floors, on-premises data centers or secure edge locations. Software Optimizations Deliver a Fungible AI Fleet The NVIDIA platform on Azure, spanning NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPUs, accelerates the latest models from the Microsoft AI Superintelligence Team, including text (MAI-1-preview), real-time voice (MAI-Voice-1) and high-fidelity image generation (MAI-Image-1) — bringing new multimodal experiences across Bing Image Creator and Microsoft Copilot. Central to NVIDIA’s collaboration with Microsoft is building a fungible fleet — a flexible, continuously modernized infrastructure that can accelerate any workload with maximum efficiency. This is achieved through continuous, full-stack software optimizations that deliver compounding performance gains and maximize throughput across the entire AI lifecycle and across multiple NVIDIA architectures on Azure. The gains also extend to workloads beyond generative AI, including data processing, vector search, databases, digital twins, scientific computing and 3D design. This co-engineering saves significant costs for customers, making AI projects that were once theoretical now economically viable. For example, the continuous full-stack optimization work has directly contributed to an over 90% drop in the price of popular GPT models for end users on Azure in two years. Ongoing optimization work now extends to Microsoft Foundry, where the NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM library helps boost throughput, reduce latency and lower costs for a wide range of popular open models. NVIDIA and Microsoft have also partnered to optimize their fleet for AI workload performance through the NVIDIA DGX Cloud Benchmarking suite. Engineering teams from both companies worked closely together to identify bottlenecks and implement infrastructure tuning, driving performance gains. By achieving 95% of the performance possible using the NVIDIA reference architecture, Microsoft was named an Exemplar Cloud for H100 training. From Intelligent Data to AI Agents NVIDIA and Microsoft are integrating AI into the core of the enterprise, unlocking decades of proprietary data stored in one of the world’s most trusted databases. NVIDIA is accelerating AI in the new Microsoft SQL Server 2025 by integrating it with NVIDIA Nemotron open models and NVIDIA NIM microservices. This solution delivers GPU-optimized, secure and scalable retrieval-augmented generation directly where enterprise data lives, in the cloud or on premises. Plus, the collaboration extends to the new frontier of agentic AI in the workplace. The NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit now connects with Microsoft Agent 365, enabling developers to build, deploy and onboard compliant, enterprise-ready AI agents directly into the Microsoft 365 app ecosystem, including Outlook, Teams, Word and SharePoint. To power these new enterprise agents, Microsoft Foundry now offers NVIDIA Nemotron models for digital AI and NVIDIA Cosmos models for physical AI as secure NIM microservices. Developers can use them to build enterprise-grade agentic AI for a vast range of applications that benefit from multimodal intelligence, multilingual reasoning, math, coding and physical AI capabilities. The collaboration is also tackling cyber threats for enterprises. Microsoft and NVIDIA are collaborating on research for new adversarial learning models, built on the NVIDIA Dynamo-Triton framework and the NVIDIA TensorRT suite of tools, that can help enterprises defend against real-time cybersecurity threats with a 160x performance speedup compared with CPU methods. Physical AI and Industrial Digitalization NVIDIA and Microsoft are building the future of physical AI. With NVIDIA Omniverse libraries available on Microsoft Azure, NVIDIA is unlocking end-to-end reindustrialization in the cloud through its developer ecosystem. Developers are transforming industrial workflows, from computer-aided engineering with Synopsys to factory operations with Sight Machine and SymphonyAI. Robotics developers can tap into the NVIDIA Isaac Sim open-source robotics simulation framework to unlock critical workflows, from synthetic data generation to software-in-the-loop testing for all types of robot embodiments. Hexagon is building its AEON humanoid robot primarily using NVIDIA’s full robotics stack on Azure. Similarly, the robotics platform, Wandelbots NOVA, running on Azure integrates Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab to simplify and speed up simulation to real-world deployment. In addition, NVIDIA and Microsoft are using a standardized approach for digital engineering to enable seamless OpenUSD interoperability across 3D workflows, making simulation and digital content creation accessible in the cloud. This expanded collaboration comes on the heels of a partnership announced with Anthropic and Microsoft earlier today. NVIDIA and Anthropic will collaborate on design and engineering to optimize Anthropic models for performance, efficiency and total cost of ownership, as well as optimize future NVIDIA architectures for Anthropic workloads. Learn more about NVIDIA and Microsoft’s collaboration and sessions at Microsoft Ignite. View the full article

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 creative director Guillaume Broche of Sandfall Interactive would very much like to play a remaster of Lost Odyssey, the mournful 2007-released Xbox 360 RPG from Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi and development studio Mistwalker. He feels the game was cruelly dinged by reviewers of the era for adhering to certain conventions. He also reckons it’d have done better if it had released for hardware other than the Xbox 360, which was trying to make in-roads among Japanese consumers at the time. Read more View the full article

80 Days and A Highland Song developers Inkle once pitched a Doctor Who game to the BBC, narrative director and writer Jon Ingold has revealed in a Bluesky post. While the BBC never responded to their overtures, the pitch became the basis for Inkle's very excellent and bodacious astral archaeology sim Heaven’s Vault. I consider this a cool thing to know, and so do our friends at Eurogamer. They’ve just published an interview with Ingold, which includes tantalising details of a forthcoming Heaven’s Vault reveal of some kind. Read more View the full article

There's a bit more excitement than usual, even among veteran car-watchers like me, for next year's F1 season. You see, the series is bringing in some new rules governing what its cars will look like and how they'll perform, meaning there's more potential on paper for serious changes to the established pecking order. Given that, I'm a bit unsure how to feel about EA and Codemasters having announced they're not making an F1 26, instead skipping ahead to 2027 with a DLC to fill the gap. Read more View the full article

A grim and insanitary management game about absolutely abysmal cars? One for you, Brendy! Oh sod it, he's not here anymore. That's what we get for letting him learn how to drive - and letting him have a cell with a window. I don't know how to drive, and I have played neither Jalopy nor My Summer Car, but I do know how to be a dishonest piece of 'frack', so I am at least 25% of the way towards writing an informed appraisal of Totally Legit Wheeler Seller. Read more View the full article

Guild Wars Reforged, a big update to 2005 MMORPG Guild Wars that's designed to make it a lot more convenient to play on modern hardware, is set to hit Steam on December 3rd. Steam Deck verification, modern controller support, and an interface revamp are among the tweaks developers ArenaNet and 2weeks have made, with the possibility of further "improvements" down the road being teased. Read more View the full article

AI agents have the potential to become indispensable tools for automating complex tasks. But bringing agents to production remains challenging. According to Gartner, “about 40% of AI prototypes make it into production, and participants reported data availability and quality as a top barrier to AI adoption.1” Just like human workers, AI agents need secure, relevant, accurate and recent data to deliver business value — what the industry is now calling “AI-ready data.” Making enterprise data AI-ready presents unique challenges. Gartner estimates, “Unstructured data such as documents and multimedia files accounts for 70% to 90% of organizational data, and poses unique governance challenges due to its volume, variety and lack of coherent structure.2” Unstructured data sources include email, PDFs, videos, audio clips and presentations. An emerging class of GPU-accelerated data and storage infrastructure — the AI data platform — transforms unstructured data into AI-ready data quickly and securely. What Is AI-Ready Data? AI-ready data can be consumed by AI training, fine-tuning and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines without additional preparation. Making unstructured data AI-ready involves: Collecting and curating data from diverse sources Applying metadata for data management and governance Dividing the source documents into semantically relevant chunks Embedding the chunks into vectors for efficient storage, search and retrieval Enterprises cannot unlock the full value of their AI investments until their unstructured data is AI-ready. Why Making Data AI-Ready Is Difficult Making unstructured data AI-ready remains a substantial challenge for most enterprises due to: Data complexity: A typical enterprise has hundreds of diverse data sources in dozens of formats and modalities — including video, audio, text and images. This data lives in different storage silos. Data velocity: The volume of business data is exploding. Predictions show global stored data will double over the next four years. And the rate of data change is increasing as enterprises adopt real-time streaming sensors such as camera feeds. Data sprawl and data drift: Frequent data copying and transformation introduces cost and security risks. Over time, the content or permissions of AI representations — such as text chunks and embeddings — diverge from source-of-truth documents. Plus, as the number of chatbots and agents proliferates, the security risk of data increases. Together, these factors force enterprise data scientists to spend the majority of their time locating, cleaning and organizing data — leaving less time for identifying valuable insights. The AI Data Platform — a New Class of Enterprise Data and Storage Infrastructure AI data platforms are an emerging class of GPU-accelerated data and storage infrastructure that makes enterprise data AI-ready. By embedding GPU acceleration directly into the data path, AI data platforms transform data for AI pipelines as a background operation invisible to the user. The data is prepared in place, minimizing unnecessary copies and associated security risks. By integrating data preparation as a core capability of storage infrastructure, AI data platforms ensure that the accuracy and security of the data is maintained. Any modifications to the sources of truth documents — including edits or permission changes — are instantly conveyed to their associated vector embeddings. Key benefits of AI data platforms include: Faster time to value: Enterprises don’t need to design, build and optimize AI data pipelines from the ground up. AI data platforms deliver an integrated, state-of-the-art AI data pipeline out of the box. Reduced data drift: By continuously ingesting, embedding and indexing enterprise data in near real time, AI data platforms reduce time to insight and minimize data drift. Improved data security: Because source-of-truth documents are stored together in AI data platforms, any changes to their contents or permissions are instantly propagated to the AI applications that use them. Simplified data governance: Preparing data in place reduces the proliferation of shadow copies that undermine access control, traceability and compliance. Improved GPU utilization: In an AI data platform, GPU capacity is sized for the amount, type and change velocity of the data under management. GPU capacity scales with the data, ensuring GPUs are not over- or under-provisioned for data preparation tasks. The NVIDIA AI Data Platform AI is changing every industry — and AI data platforms are the natural evolution of enterprise storage for the generative AI era, changing from passive containers to active engines delivering business value. By integrating GPU acceleration into the data path, AI data platforms enable enterprises to activate their AI agents with AI-ready data quickly and securely. The NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design brings together NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs and integrated AI data processing pipelines based on NVIDIA Blueprints. The NVIDIA AI Data Platform design has been adopted by leading AI infrastructure and storage providers including Cisco, Cloudian, DDN, Dell Technologies, Hitachi Vantara, HPE, IBM, NetApp, Pure Storage, VAST Data and WEKA — each extending the design with their own unique differentiation and innovation. Learn more about the NVIDIA AI Data Platform. Plus, tune in to this NVIDIA AI Podcast episode on AI data platforms: 1Gartner, How to Design an Effective Data Quality Operating Model by Sue Waite and Melody Chien, 15 July 2025 2Gartner, Governing Unstructured Data for AI Readiness: A Strategic Roadmap by Melody Chien, 14 August 2025 GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved. View the full article