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An Unreal Engine developer was able to get the classic FPS Doom running inside Fortnite, adding yet another entry to the ever-growing list of “Things That Can Run Doom.” Read more... View the full article

The Dragon Age series has changed so much between games that almost every fan has a different vision of what BioWare’s fantasy RPGs should be. Sometimes talking to a new Dragon Age fan can feel like walking on eggshells until you get a sense for where they fall on the community’s most hotly debated topics. Are they an … Read more... View the full article

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree ends on a real mother'frell'er of a boss. Seasoned and novice players alike have mostly loved the journey featured in the expansion to 2022’s biggest game, but a decent few are split on the very final boss fight and how fair it is. Honestly? It’s kind of bullpucky. Read more... View the full article

In January 2023, one of the best video game adaptations made to date premiered on TV. A week later HBO’s The Last of Us also premiered. The live-action prestige series based on the critically acclaimed Naughty Dog game of the same name overshadowed a more interesting game adaptation in the form of the anime Nier:… Read more... View the full article

The Acolyte, the new Disney+ Star Wars series set in the High Republic era, has been open about its intentions from the jump: portray the Jedi Order at the height of its power and show how they are responsible for their own fall from grace, the same fall we watched play out in the prequels over 20 years ago. But… Read more... View the full article

Microsoft is raising the price of every tier of Xbox Game Pass starting July 10. Fortunately, you can save a good chunk of change on the most expensive tier through a current Amazon deal. Stacking a year’s worth of monthly subscriptions with this offer is $60 cheaper than paying the new price moving forward. Read more... View the full article

Xbox Game Pass started out feeling like a frivolous boondoggle aimed at distracting from the Xbox One’s lack of hit exclusives. Then, it became the best deal in gaming thanks to a steady expansion of the Netflix-like subscription library with major third-party releases and critically acclaimed indies. Now it’s bigger… Read more... View the full article

X-Men’s master of magnetism, Magneto, has finally made his way to Fortnite. He’s one of many skins you can unlock if you’ve purchased the Chapter 5 Season 3 Battle Pass. Magneto has various cosmetic items you can unlock, but you’ll first need to complete a series of quests to get them. This guide will detail… Read more... View the full article

Popular YouTuber James “MrBeast” Donaldson explained what he would do if he was elected president of the United States. It basically amounted to him never picking a side and instead looking for a “middle ground” on all issues. This went over poorly online. Read more... View the full article

If you’ve fallen behind on some of your Fortnite weekly quests and are looking to earn some XP to progress your battle pass further, this guide will help you finish off any lingering Week 6 challenges. These quests are worth 15,000 XP each. So if you complete them all, you’ll rack up 75,000 XP. Read more... View the full article

Overwatch 2 launched its Transformers crossover skins this week, and while those were obviously the headliner of the hero shooter’s July 9 update, they were accompanied by the game’s midseason balance patch. The buffs and nerfs were meant to address criticisms surrounding the lack of “tankiness” with the game’s tank… Read more... View the full article

When season one of office thriller show Severance aired in early 2022 it became an instant hit. The Apple TV+ show starring Adam Scott was a biting critique of the modern workplace and an engaging sci-fi mystery wrapped into one. Fans have been waiting for news of a second season of the program for over two years! Now… Read more... View the full article

Palworld feels like gaming’s ultimate troll. It’s a troll on the concepts of IP and copyright as it so brazenly mimics Pokémon with its creature design. And it’s a troll on Pokémon fans, given it’s really just yet another tree-bashing survival game. But oh boy, has it been a success, and as Nintendo and The Pokémon… Read more... View the full article

Nintendo posts new trailers for upcoming Switch games all the time on its YouTube channel, but not like this. On Wednesday morning, the company uploaded a teaser titled “Emio” that’s only fifteen seconds long, stars a person with a creepy paper bag over their head, and appears to tease an unannounced horror game… Read more... View the full article

Improved cancer diagnostics — and improved patient outcomes — could be among the changes generative AI will bring to the healthcare industry, thanks to Paige, the first company with an FDA-approved tool for cancer diagnosis. In this episode of NVIDIA’s AI Podcast, host Noah Kravitz speaks with Paige cofounder and Chief Scientific Officer Thomas Fuchs. He’s also dean of artificial intelligence and human health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Tune in to hear Fuchs on machine learning and AI applications and how technology brings better precision and care to the medical industry. The AI Podcast · Paige Cofounder Thomas Fuchs’ Diagnosis on Improving Cancer Patient Outcomes With AI Time Stamps 1:03: Background on Paige and computational pathology 7:28: How AI models use visual pattern recognition to accelerate cancer detection 11:27: Paige’s results using AI in cancer imaging and pathology 15:16: Challenges in cancer detection 17:38: Thomas Fuchs’ background in engineering at JPL and NASA 24:10: AI’s future in the medical industry You Might Also Like: Dotlumen CEO Cornel Amariei on Assistive Technology for the Visually Impaired – Ep. 217 NVIDIA Inception program member Dotlumen is building AI glasses to help people with visual impairments navigate the world. CEO and founder Cornel Amariei discusses the processes of developing assistive technology and its potential for enhancing accessibility. Personalized Health: Viome’s Guru Banavar Discusses Startup’s AI-Driven Approach – Ep. 216 Viome CTO Guru Banavar discusses innovations in AI and genomics and how technology has advanced personalized health and wellness. Viome aims to tackle the root causes of chronic diseases by analyzing microbiomes and gene expression, transforming biological data into practical recommendations for a holistic approach to wellness. Cardiac Clarity: Dr. Keith Channon Talks Revolutionizing Heart Health With AI – Ep. 212 Caristo Diagnostics has developed an AI-powered solution for detecting coronary inflammation in cardiac CT scans. Dr. Keith Channon, cofounder and chief medical officer, discusses how Caristo uses AI to improve treatment plans and risk predictions by providing patient-specific readouts. Subscribe to the AI Podcast Get the AI Podcast through iTunes, Amazon Music, Castbox, DoggCatcher, Overcast, PlayerFM, Pocket Casts, Podbay, PodBean, PodCruncher, PodKicker, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher and TuneIn. View the full article

In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, generative AI is captivating imaginations and transforming industries. Behind the scenes, an unsung hero is making it all possible: microservices architecture. The Building Blocks of Modern AI Applications Microservices have emerged as a powerful architecture, fundamentally changing how people design, build and deploy software. A microservices architecture breaks down an application into a collection of loosely coupled, independently deployable services. Each service is responsible for a specific capability and communicates with other services through well-defined application programming interfaces, or APIs. This modular approach stands in stark contrast to traditional all-in-one architectures, in which all functionality is bundled into a single, tightly integrated application. By decoupling services, teams can work on different components simultaneously, accelerating development processes and allowing updates to be rolled out independently without affecting the entire application. Developers can focus on building and improving specific services, leading to better code quality and faster problem resolution. Such specialization allows developers to become experts in their particular domain. Services can be scaled independently based on demand, optimizing resource utilization and improving overall system performance. In addition, different services can use different technologies, allowing developers to choose the best tools for each specific task. A Perfect Match: Microservices and Generative AI The microservices architecture is particularly well-suited for developing generative AI applications due to its scalability, enhanced modularity and flexibility. AI models, especially large language models, require significant computational resources. Microservices allow for efficient scaling of these resource-intensive components without affecting the entire system. Generative AI applications often involve multiple steps, such as data preprocessing, model inference and post-processing. Microservices enable each step to be developed, optimized and scaled independently. Plus, as AI models and techniques evolve rapidly, a microservices architecture allows for easier integration of new models as well as the replacement of existing ones without disrupting the entire application. NVIDIA NIM: Simplifying Generative AI Deployment As the demand for AI-powered applications grows, developers face challenges in efficiently deploying and managing AI models. NVIDIA NIM inference microservices provide models as optimized containers to deploy in the cloud, data centers, workstations, desktops and laptops. Each NIM container includes the pretrained AI models and all the necessary runtime components, making it simple to integrate AI capabilities into applications. NIM offers a game-changing approach for application developers looking to incorporate AI functionality by providing simplified integration, production-readiness and flexibility. Developers can focus on building their applications without worrying about the complexities of data preparation, model training or customization, as NIM inference microservices are optimized for performance, come with runtime optimizations and support industry-standard APIs. AI at Your Fingertips: NVIDIA NIM on Workstations and PCs Building enterprise generative AI applications comes with many challenges. While cloud-hosted model APIs can help developers get started, issues related to data privacy, security, model response latency, accuracy, API costs and scaling often hinder the path to production. Workstations with NIM provide developers with secure access to a broad range of models and performance-optimized inference microservices. By avoiding the latency, cost and compliance concerns associated with cloud-hosted APIs as well as the complexities of model deployment, developers can focus on application development. This accelerates the delivery of production-ready generative AI applications — enabling seamless, automatic scale out with performance optimization in data centers and the cloud. The recently announced general availability of the Meta Llama 3 8B model as a NIM, which can run locally on RTX systems, brings state-of-the-art language model capabilities to individual developers, enabling local testing and experimentation without the need for cloud resources. With NIM running locally, developers can create sophisticated retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) projects right on their workstations. Local RAG refers to implementing RAG systems entirely on local hardware, without relying on cloud-based services or external APIs. Developers can use the Llama 3 8B NIM on workstations with one or more NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation GPUs or on NVIDIA RTX systems to build end-to-end RAG systems entirely on local hardware. This setup allows developers to tap the full power of Llama 3 8B, ensuring high performance and low latency. By running the entire RAG pipeline locally, developers can maintain complete control over their data, ensuring privacy and security. This approach is particularly helpful for developers building applications that require real-time responses and high accuracy, such as customer-support chatbots, personalized content-generation tools and interactive virtual assistants. Hybrid RAG combines local and cloud-based resources to optimize performance and flexibility in AI applications. With NVIDIA AI Workbench, developers can get started with the hybrid-RAG Workbench Project — an example application that can be used to run vector databases and embedding models locally while performing inference using NIM in the cloud or data center, offering a flexible approach to resource allocation. This hybrid setup allows developers to balance the computational load between local and cloud resources, optimizing performance and cost. For example, the vector database and embedding models can be hosted on local workstations to ensure fast data retrieval and processing, while the more computationally intensive inference tasks can be offloaded to powerful cloud-based NIM inference microservices. This flexibility enables developers to scale their applications seamlessly, accommodating varying workloads and ensuring consistent performance. NVIDIA ACE NIM inference microservices bring digital humans, AI non-playable characters (NPCs) and interactive avatars for customer service to life with generative AI, running on RTX PCs and workstations. ACE NIM inference microservices for speech — including Riva automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech and neural machine translation — allow accurate transcription, translation and realistic voices. The NVIDIA Nemotron small language model is a NIM for intelligence that includes INT4 quantization for minimal memory usage and supports roleplay and RAG use cases. And ACE NIM inference microservices for appearance include Audio2Face and Omniverse RTX for lifelike animation with ultrarealistic visuals. These provide more immersive and engaging gaming characters, as well as more satisfying experiences for users interacting with virtual customer-service agents. Dive Into NIM As AI progresses, the ability to rapidly deploy and scale its capabilities will become increasingly crucial. NVIDIA NIM microservices provide the foundation for this new era of AI application development, enabling breakthrough innovations. Whether building the next generation of AI-powered games, developing advanced natural language processing applications or creating intelligent automation systems, users can access these powerful development tools at their fingertips. Ways to get started: Experience and interact with NVIDIA NIM microservices on ai.nvidia.com. Join the NVIDIA Developer Program and get free access to NIM for testing and prototyping AI-powered applications. Buy an NVIDIA AI Enterprise license with a free 90-day evaluation period for production deployment and use NVIDIA NIM to self-host AI models in the cloud or in data centers. 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

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Microsoft is making some big changes to Xbox Game Pass, including raising the price on some tiers while discontinuing other tiers and adding whole new options, turning the once easy-to-understand service—and arguably the best deal in gaming—into a confusing and pricey mess. Read more... View the full article

Bungie recently shifted away from Destiny 2’s seasonal model for something the developer is calling episodes. These episodes are supposed to differ from seasons—which delivered weekly narrative beats via a mixture of cutscenes and repeatable activities— in a number of ways, such as the ability to tell more exciting… Read more... View the full article

There is a lot to do in Final Fantasy XIV, Square Enix’s critically acclaimed MMORPG. Sure the latest expansion, Dawntrail, just added a ton of new locations and quests to explore in its continuation of the game’s sprawling main story, but wait until you hear about all the other things you can get up to! There are… Read more... View the full article

Have you finished Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth’s 50-hour story? What about its 100 hours of side content? Every Remnawave tower, combat assignment, and summon shrine? Even the Odin one? Well, you’re in luck! It sounds like Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion is coming to PS Plus this month so you can dive into the… Read more... View the full article

A Steam user left a negative review after playing Coin Pusher Casino on Steam. In response, a developer behind the game left a comment telling the player to “Kill Yoursells.” This has led to a backlash via a viral Reddit post, and an apology from the studio. Read more... View the full article

Highly anticipated RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard is coming to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S this fall. BioWare has been focusing a lot of its marketing for the sequel on the game’s party of seven heroes, each of whom embodies a different faction within the universe and will be a romance option. But where will… Read more... View the full article

Korean mega publisher Nexon recently released its own take on the free-to-play looter shooter with The First Descendant. Since the birth of the genre over a decade ago, many titles have come and gone, but two of them have stood near the top pretty consistently: Digital Extremes’ Warframe and Bungie’s Destiny… Read more... View the full article

Star Wars Outlaws is nearly here and a lot of players are likely excited to hop into this open-world Star Wars game featuring five large planets. And according to Ubisoft, three of these worlds will take about five minutes to travel across using a speeder bike. Read more... View the full article