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If you’ve recently returned to Fallout 76 or are trying it for the first time, you probably can’t wait to get your hands on some power armor, the hulking metal suits that protect you from the irradiated wasteland’s dangers. They’ve been a central part of each game in the franchise, and Fallout 76 is no different.… Read more... View the full article

Amazon’s Fallout TV series has made waves since it dropped last week, mostly due to the quality of the work. Fallout’s one of the best video game adaptations we’ve gotten and one that enhances the series greatly. It also is situated at the very end of the known timeline of the games, serving as a sort of sequel to the… Read more... View the full article

Stellar Blade, the PS5’s upcoming action game where you get to play as a cute lady (feels good, right?), has had a demo out since March 29. Perhaps you’ve been playing it? Whether you’ve been enjoying it or found it too cumbersome at first, it’s always a good idea to brush up on some basics again. Read more... View the full article

Nintendo has delivered a brand-new Indie World showcase. It lasted about 20 minutes and gave us a look at some cute and cozy games, a few of which are launching today. Unfortunately, there was no Hollow Knight: Silksong news, but there was still plenty to get stoked about. Read more... View the full article

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If your social media is attuned to gay stuff, pop queens, or Coachella, you’ve probably heard Chappell Roan. The budding pop artist has been making waves on platforms like TikTok with songs like “Casual” and her latest single, “Good Luck, Babe!” Her Coachella performance has also been popping off, especially a clip of… Read more... View the full article

Final Fantasy XIV is no stranger to crossover and collaboration events, such as the recent event that had players running around Eorzea with Clive for a brand new Torgal mount. These events are often only running for a limited time, and the upcoming Yo-kai Watch collaboration is no different. Returning since its last… Read more... View the full article

Among the assortment of changes it brings to the game, Destiny 2’s new Into The Light update brings back fan-favorite weapons from years past. A Breech-Loaded grenade launcher is needed for the weekly quest “Climbing the Mountaintop.” However, it’s not entirely clear how to tell these apart from other grenade… Read more... View the full article

Today, Wednesday, April 17, Nintendo held a short Indie World Showcase. The tension in the air was palpable long before it started, as fans thought this might finally be the showcase to give us the long-awaited indie Metroidvania Hollow Knight: Silksong—the follow-up to 2017’s critically acclaimed Hollow Knight—… Read more... View the full article

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Remember last year when Pokémon collaborated with the Van Gogh Museum for an incredible line of products and an exhibit in the Amsterdam facility? Then you may also recall how resellers, in desperate need to throw the plushies, art, and figures onto eBay at inflated prices, embarrassed themselves by ruining the… Read more... View the full article

Despite the fact that many hoped Larian Studios would continue its work on the critically acclaimed Baldur’s Gate 3, whether it was via DLC or a sequel, the developer announced last month that it would be moving on. During a talk at the Game Developers Conference, Larian CEO Swen Vincke confirmed that the team was not… Read more... View the full article

Overwatch 2’s tenth season is officially underway, and everybody’s pretty happy with the new damage hero Venture, and the fact that they (and the rest of the Overwatch 2 cast) are officially free for everyone after being locked behind the battle pass for over a year. Blizzard has also added several foundational… Read more... View the full article

Ghost of Tsushima—the 2020 samurai RPG developed by Sucker Punch—isn’t the first PlayStation exclusive to come to PC, but it will mark the first time non-console gamers will get something akin to the true PlayStation experience. That’s because Sony is introducing a new in-game overlay for the latest version that will… Read more... View the full article

A favorite pastime of Kotaku is spotting the new and ludicrous ways people have found to best super-tough games like Elden Ring. Whether using a harp or an 'donkey', people are both incredible and incredibly inventive. It turns out, though, that not everyone’s capable of appreciating that. So when player Silithur completed… Read more... View the full article

After selling over 15 million copies in its first month, the mania around Palworld has cooled a bit. But deep-pocketed competitors have taken notice of the “Pokémon With Guns” survival crafting sim’s overnight success and are trying to copy it, according to the head of the studio behind the game. Read more... View the full article

Dragon’s Dogma 2 throws a lot of missions at you from the moment you start the game. Some of them require you to play detective and find a missing person, and some are affected by the passage of time. “A Beggar’s Tale,” meanwhile, may have you lamenting time’s slow passage as you watch a certain NPC and wait for him… Read more... View the full article

Editor’s note: This post is part of the AI Decoded series, which demystifies AI by making the technology more accessible, and which showcases new hardware, software, tools and accelerations for RTX PC users. Imagine a gorgeous vista, like a cliff along the water’s edge. Even as a 2D image, the scene would be beautiful and inviting. Now imagine exploring that same view in 3D – without needing to be there. NVIDIA RTX technology-powered AI helps turn such an imagination into reality. Using Instant NeRF, creatives are transforming collections of still images into digital 3D scenes in just seconds. Simply Radiant A NeRF, or neural radiance field, is an AI model that takes 2D images representing a scene as input and interpolates between them to render a complete 3D scene. The model operates as a neural network — a model that replicates how the brain is organized and is often used for tasks that require pattern recognition. Using spatial location and volumetric rendering, a NeRF uses the camera pose from the images to render a 3D iteration of the scene. Traditionally, these models are computationally intensive, requiring large amounts of rendering power and time. A recent NVIDIA AI research project changed that. Instant NeRF takes NeRFs to the next level, using AI-accelerated inverse rendering to approximate how light behaves in the real world. It enables researchers to construct a 3D scene from 2D images taken at different angles. Scenes can now be generated in seconds, and the longer the NeRF model is trained, the more detailed the resulting 3D renders. NVIDIA researchers released four neural graphics primitives, or pretrained datasets, as part of the Instant-NGP training toolset at the SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference in 2022. The tools let anyone create NeRFs with their own data. The researchers won a best paper award for the work, and TIME Magazine named Instant NeRF a best invention of 2022. In addition to speeding rendering for NeRFs, Instant NeRF makes the entire image reconstruction process accessible using NVIDIA RTX and GeForce RTX desktop and laptop GPUs. While the time it takes to render a scene depends on factors like dataset size and the mix of image and video source content, the AI training doesn’t require server-grade or cloud-based hardware. NVIDIA RTX workstations and GeForce RTX PCs are ideally suited to meet the computational demands of rendering NeRFs. NVIDIA RTX and GeForce RTX GPUs feature Tensor Cores, dedicated AI hardware accelerators that provide the horsepower to run generative AI locally. Ready, Set, Go Get started with Instant NeRF to learn about radiance fields and experience imagery in a new way. Developers and tech enthusiasts can download the source-code base to compile. Nontechnical users can download the Windows installers for Instant-NGP software, available on GitHub. While the installer is available for a wide range of RTX GPUs, the program performs best on the latest-architecture GeForce RTX 40 Series and NVIDIA RTX Ada Generation GPUs. The “Getting Started With Instant NeRF” guide walks users through the process, including loading one of the primitives, such as “NeRF Fox,” to get a sense of what’s possible. Detailed instructions and video walkthroughs — like the one above — demonstrate how to create NeRFs with custom data, including tips for capturing good input imagery and compiling codebases (if built from source). The guide also covers using the Instant NeRF graphical user interface, optimizing scene parameters and creating an animation from the scene. The NeRF community also offers many tips and tricks to help users get started. For example, check out the livestream below and this technical blog post. Show and Tell Digital artists are composing beautiful scenes and telling fresh stories with NVIDIA Instant NeRF. The Instant NeRF gallery showcases some of the most innovative and thought-provoking examples, viewable as video clips in any web browser. Here are a few: “Through the Looking Glass” by Karen X. Cheng and James Perlman A pianist practices her song, part of her daily routine, though there’s nothing mundane about what happens next. The viewer peers into the mirror, a virtual world that can be observed but not traversed; it’s unreachable by normal means. Then, crossing the threshold, it’s revealed that this mirror is in fact a window into an inverted reality that can be explored from within. Which one is real? https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/studio-ai-decoded-karenx-v9-1280x680-1.mp4 “Meditation” by Franc Lucent As soon as they walked into one of many rooms in Nico Santucci’s estate, Lucent knew they needed to turn it into a NeRF. Playing with the dynamic range and reflections in the pond, it presented the artist with an unknown exploration. They were pleased with the softness of the light and the way the NeRF elevates the room into what looks like something out of a dream — the perfect place to meditate. A NeRF can freeze a moment in a way that’s more immersive than a photo or video. https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/studio-ai-decoded-franc-lucent-meditation-1280x680-1.mp4 “Zeus” by Hugues Bruyère These rendered 3D scenes with Instant NeRF use the data Bruyère previously captured for traditional photogrammetry using mirrorless digital cameras, smartphones, 360-degree cameras and drones. Instant NeRF gives him a powerful tool to help preserve and share cultural artifacts through online libraries, museums, virtual-reality experiences and heritage-conservation projects. This NeRF was trained using a dataset of photos taken with an iPhone at the Royal Ontario Museum. https://blogs.nvidia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/studio-ai-decoded-hugues-zeus-1280x680-1.mp4 From Image to Video to Reality Transforming images into a 3D scene with AI is cool. Stepping into that 3D creation is next level. Thanks to a recent Instant NeRF update, users can render their scenes from static images and virtually step inside the environments, moving freely within the 3D space. In virtual-reality (VR) environments, users can feel complete immersion into new worlds, all within their headsets. The potential benefits are nearly endless. For example, a realtor can create and share a 3D model of a property, offering virtual tours at new levels. Retailers can showcase products in an online shop, powered by a collection of images and AI running on RTX GPUs. These AI models power creativity and are helping drive the accessibility of 3D immersive experiences across other industries. Instant NeRF comes with the capability to clean up scenes easily in VR, making the creation of high-quality NeRFs more intuitive than ever. Learn more about navigating Instant NeRF spaces in VR. Download Instant-NGP to get started, and share your creations on social media with the hashtag #InstantNeRF. Generative AI is transforming gaming, videoconferencing and interactive experiences of all kinds. Make sense of what’s new and what’s next by subscribing to the AI Decoded newsletter. View the full article

Grand Theft Auto VI publisher Take-Two Interactive announced massive cuts in an SEC filing at the end of business today. The company revealed it will lay off 5 percent of its roughly 11,000-strong workforce and has cancelled several in-development projects valued at $140 million in an effort at “rationalizing its… Read more... View the full article

A newly published survey shows that most game developers aren’t too sure about live-service video games—like Destiny 2 and Suicide Squad—representing a sustainable future for the industry, and think the return of paid DLC might be a better option instead. Read more... View the full article

Upcoming action game Stellar Blade is set to launch exclusively on PS5 on April 26, 2024. Developer Shift Up recently released a demo to give us all a taste of what’s expected on release. Thus far, it’s shaping up to be a promising action title with, um, interesting character design choices. Read more... View the full article

Overwatch 2’s tenth season begins today, April 16, and it’s bringing a new hero, a new limited-time event, and also a new way to earn Mythic Skins, the rare, customizable skins you can get through progressing through the entire premium battle pass. It’s a nice change for folks who haven’t bought every battle pass and… Read more... View the full article

PlayStation Plus’ Extra and Premium tiers—which include free games you can play as part of your membership—are losing over two dozen titles in May, including eight different Final Fantasy games. If you want to beat them all before they leave, you’d better hurry! Read more... View the full article

After years of speculation, it was revealed that The Matrix, John Wick, and Cyberpunk 2077 star Keanu Reeves is voicing the broody antihero Shadow in Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Reeves had been a fan-favorite to play Shadow in Paramount’s live-action adaptation since the character debuted in Sonic the Hedgehog 2’s… Read more... View the full article

If you’ve been anxiously awaiting Hades II, the sequel to Supergiant’s stunning 2020 roguelike, I’ve got good news for you. While the hotly anticipated title isn’t quite entering Early Access just yet, the studio says it’s not all that far off. And ahead of that milestone, Supergiant will be running a technical test… Read more... View the full article