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Ever since Nintendo confirmed that The Legend of Zelda has an official, branching timeline, fans have been curious about precisely when every new game in Nintendo’s beloved action-adventure franchise takes place. That includes the newly announced The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. While nothing’s confirmed yet,… Read more... View the full article

With less than a day until Shadow of the Erdtree’s release, it’s sad but predictable that spoilers are already on the internet. But what I didn’t expect was for spoilers to come directly from Bandai Namco, the publisher of Elden Ring and its highly anticipated DLC. However, that’s exactly what’s happened with Shadow… Read more... View the full article

Oops! Ubisoft seemingly jumped the gun earlier today when it announced the release date and full title for a new remaster of Beyond Good & Evil via Twitter. The publisher has since deleted the tweet, but the internet never forgets. Read more... View the full article

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After a few rounds of updates, Starfield is slowly shifting into something quite different from what originally launched on September 4, 2023. And I’m not just talking about the cool new mods that are quick and easy to install now thanks to the Creations suite. As of May 2024, a bunch of new features have been added… Read more... View the full article

Honkai: Star Rail concludes its Penacony chapter with two highly anticipated characters arriving in its 2.3 epilogue. HoYo’s turn-based RPG is still worth playing a year later, with its riveting story and complex combat, and that’s partly thanks to Firefly and Jade. But who should you choose in the coming month? Read more... View the full article

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One night, as I’m playing Selaco—a fast-paced retro-inspired FPS—I round a corner and shoot three space guards with a grenade launcher and watch their body parts fly through the air. Meanwhile, watching from my desktop is Mustard, my new digital pet. He’s from a different game, Weyrdlets, and he’s hanging out with me… Read more... View the full article

Since the announcement of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, fans of the series have been expressing their excitement over Zelda’s unique gameplay. Chiefly, they are overjoyed about her ability to copy (or echo) items in the environment and use them against her enemies in battle. Read more... View the full article

A video game about being a journalist might hit a little close to home for me, a journalist whose job is to write about video games. And yet, I cannot get enough of Times & Galaxy’s news shenanigans. Read more... View the full article

Years before Bethesda released Fallout 3 in 2008, another version of the game existed. Codenamed Van Buren, the original Fallout 3 was in development at Black Isle Studios, the developer of Fallout 2, as well as the acclaimed Planescape: Torment. The project was canceled in 2003, leading to the closure of the storied… Read more... View the full article

With a new Nintendo console looming over 2025, the Switch is in its twilight year. It looks like it’s going to have a pretty great send-off, but it’s always bittersweet leaving an old system behind for the next new thing. Metroid Prime 4: Beyond will likely be one of the last big games Nintendo puts out for the… Read more... View the full article

Some Star Wars fans are upset, again. Imagine that. The latest freak-out turns on a minor bit of canon that was just scrambled in episode 4 of Star Wars: The Acolyte. It has to do with the prequel movies and the lifespans of one particular race of aliens that really doesn’t factor into anything important. The response… Read more... View the full article

There is only one day until Shadow of the Erdtree launches, and ahead of the DLC’s release, Elden Ring is dropping a major patch. Version 1.12 is now live on all platforms and comes with a lengthy list of balance adjustments, bug fixes, and new features. While the most prominent note is that the game now has support… Read more... View the full article

Microsoft’s shocking decision in May to close a collection of Bethesda-adjacent studios saw Dishonored and Redfall developers Arcane Austin suddenly closed down, before the studio was able to complete Redfall’s promised content. Those who bought the game’s never-to-be-released Hero DLC are now, a month later, being… Read more... View the full article

Sit back and settle in for some epic storytelling. Tell Me Why and As Dusk Falls — award-winning, narrative-driven games from Xbox Studios — add to the 1,900+ games in the GeForce NOW library, ready to stream from the cloud. Members can find more adventures with four new titles available this week. Experience a Metallica concert like no other in “Metallica: Fuel. Fire. Fury.” This journey through six fan-favorite songs features gameplay that matches the intensity. “Metallica: Fuel. Fire. Fury.” will have six different showtimes running June 22-23 in Fortnite. Anyone can get a front-row seat to the interactive music experience by streaming on their mobile device, powered by GeForce NOW. Unravel the Mystery Whether uncovering family mysteries in Alaska or navigating small-town secrets in Arizona, gamers are set to be drawn into richly woven stories with Tell Me Why and Ask Dusk Falls joining the cloud this week. Ain’t nothing but a great game. Tell Me Why — an episodic adventure game from Dontnod Entertainment, the creators of the beloved Life Is Strange series — follows twins Tyler and Alyson Ronan as they reunite after a decade to uncover the mysteries of their troubled childhoods in the fictional town of Delos Crossing, Alaska. Experience true-to-life characters, mature themes and gripping choices. Every family has secrets. Dive into the intertwined lives of two families over three decades in As Dusk Falls from INTERIOR/NIGHT. Set in small-town Arizona in the 1990s, the game’s unique art style blends 2D character illustrations with 3D environments, creating a visually striking experience. Players’ choices significantly impact the storyline, making each playthrough unique. GeForce NOW members can now stream these award-winning titles on a variety of devices, including PCs, Macs, SHIELD TVs and Android devices. Upgrade to a Priority or Ultimate membership to enjoy enhanced streaming quality and performance, including up to 4K resolution and 120 frames per second on supported devices. Jump into these emotionally rich narratives and discover the power of choice in shaping the characters’ destinies. Wake Up to New Games Run! In Still Wakes the Deep from The Chinese Room and Secret Mode, play as an offshore oil rig worker fighting for dear life through a vicious storm, perilous surroundings and the dark, freezing North Sea waters. All lines of communication have been severed. All exits are gone. All that remains is the need to face the unknowable horror aboard. Live the terror and escape the rig, all from the cloud. Check out the list of new games this week: Still Wakes the Deep (New release on Steam and Xbox, available on PC Game Pass, June 18) Skye: The Misty Isle (New release on Steam, June 19) As Dusk Falls (Steam and Xbox, available on PC Game Pass) Tell Me Why (Steam and Xbox, available on PC Game Pass) Make sure to catch #GreetingFromGFN. Plus, #GreetingsFromGFN continues on @NVIDIAGFN social media accounts, with members sharing their favorite locations to visit in the cloud. What are you planning to play this weekend? Let us know on X or in the comments below. What's a game that's still giving you nightmares? — NVIDIA GeForce NOW (@NVIDIAGFN) June 18, 2024 View the full article

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Back in March, the European Union brought in new rules that were designed to stop companies like Apple and Google from blocking third-party companies running their own in-app item stores. This was supposed to carve a path for games like Fortnite to be able to return to mobile, now they could run in-game purchases… Read more... View the full article

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AI is such big business right now it’s propelled Nvidia, that company that you once knew for making your GeForce graphics cards, to becoming the biggest business in the world. And yet the technology is so far next to useless in all but the most specific circumstances. For example, McDonald’s has just announced it’s… Read more... View the full article

If you wanna know what games are coming up next on PlayStation, you just need to ask the Taiwanese ratings board. That’s Gemastu’s brilliant trick, that allowed the site to correctly predict the arrival of Octopath Traveler last week, and now suggests subscribers to PlayStation Plus are about to finally be reunited… 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 showcases new hardware, software, tools and accelerations for NVIDIA RTX PC and workstation users. The demand for tools to simplify and optimize generative AI development is skyrocketing. Applications based on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) — a technique for enhancing the accuracy and reliability of generative AI models with facts fetched from specified external sources — and customized models are enabling developers to tune AI models to their specific needs. While such work may have required a complex setup in the past, new tools are making it easier than ever. NVIDIA AI Workbench simplifies AI developer workflows by helping users build their own RAG projects, customize models and more. It’s part of the RTX AI Toolkit — a suite of tools and software development kits for customizing, optimizing and deploying AI capabilities — launched at COMPUTEX earlier this month. AI Workbench removes the complexity of technical tasks that can derail experts and halt beginners. What Is NVIDIA AI Workbench? Available for free, NVIDIA AI Workbench enables users to develop, experiment with, test and prototype AI applications across GPU systems of their choice — from laptops and workstations to data center and cloud. It offers a new approach for creating, using and sharing GPU-enabled development environments across people and systems. A simple installation gets users up and running with AI Workbench on a local or remote machine in just minutes. Users can then start a new project or replicate one from the examples on GitHub. Everything works through GitHub or GitLab, so users can easily collaborate and distribute work. Learn more about getting started with AI Workbench. How AI Workbench Helps Address AI Project Challenges Developing AI workloads can require manual, often complex processes, right from the start. Setting up GPUs, updating drivers and managing versioning incompatibilities can be cumbersome. Reproducing projects across different systems can require replicating manual processes over and over. Inconsistencies when replicating projects, like issues with data fragmentation and version control, can hinder collaboration. Varied setup processes, moving credentials and secrets, and changes in the environment, data, models and file locations can all limit the portability of projects. AI Workbench makes it easier for data scientists and developers to manage their work and collaborate across heterogeneous platforms. It integrates and automates various aspects of the development process, offering: Ease of setup: AI Workbench streamlines the process of setting up a developer environment that’s GPU-accelerated, even for users with limited technical knowledge. Seamless collaboration: AI Workbench integrates with version-control and project-management tools like GitHub and GitLab, reducing friction when collaborating. Consistency when scaling from local to cloud: AI Workbench ensures consistency across multiple environments, supporting scaling up or down from local workstations or PCs to data centers or the cloud. RAG for Documents, Easier Than Ever NVIDIA offers sample development Workbench Projects to help users get started with AI Workbench. The hybrid RAG Workbench Project is one example: It runs a custom, text-based RAG web application with a user’s documents on their local workstation, PC or remote system. Every Workbench Project runs in a “container” — software that includes all the necessary components to run the AI application. The hybrid RAG sample pairs a Gradio chat interface frontend on the host machine with a containerized RAG server — the backend that services a user’s request and routes queries to and from the vector database and the selected large language model. This Workbench Project supports a wide variety of LLMs available on NVIDIA’s GitHub page. Plus, the hybrid nature of the project lets users select where to run inference. Workbench Projects let users version the development environment and code. Developers can run the embedding model on the host machine and run inference locally on a Hugging Face Text Generation Inference server, on target cloud resources using NVIDIA inference endpoints like the NVIDIA API catalog, or with self-hosting microservices such as NVIDIA NIM or third-party services. The hybrid RAG Workbench Project also includes: Performance metrics: Users can evaluate how RAG- and non-RAG-based user queries perform across each inference mode. Tracked metrics include Retrieval Time, Time to First Token (TTFT) and Token Velocity. Retrieval transparency: A panel shows the exact snippets of text — retrieved from the most contextually relevant content in the vector database — that are being fed into the LLM and improving the response’s relevance to a user’s query. Response customization: Responses can be tweaked with a variety of parameters, such as maximum tokens to generate, temperature and frequency penalty. To get started with this project, simply install AI Workbench on a local system. The hybrid RAG Workbench Project can be brought from GitHub into the user’s account and duplicated to the local system. More resources are available in the AI Decoded user guide. In addition, community members provide helpful video tutorials, like the one from Joe Freeman below. Customize, Optimize, Deploy Developers often seek to customize AI models for specific use cases. Fine-tuning, a technique that changes the model by training it with additional data, can be useful for style transfer or changing model behavior. AI Workbench helps with fine-tuning, as well. The Llama-factory AI Workbench Project enables QLoRa, a fine-tuning method that minimizes memory requirements, for a variety of models, as well as model quantization via a simple graphical user interface. Developers can use public or their own datasets to meet the needs of their applications. Once fine-tuning is complete, the model can be quantized for improved performance and a smaller memory footprint, then deployed to native Windows applications for local inference or to NVIDIA NIM for cloud inference. Find a complete tutorial for this project on the NVIDIA RTX AI Toolkit repository. Truly Hybrid — Run AI Workloads Anywhere The Hybrid-RAG Workbench Project described above is hybrid in more than one way. In addition to offering a choice of inference mode, the project can be run locally on NVIDIA RTX workstations and GeForce RTX PCs, or scaled up to remote cloud servers and data centers. The ability to run projects on systems of the user’s choice — without the overhead of setting up the infrastructure — extends to all Workbench Projects. Find more examples and instructions for fine-tuning and customization in the AI Workbench quick-start guide. 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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