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With Final Fantasy XIV’s Dawntrail expansion launching for players who pre-ordered it on June 28, it’s time to start thinking about how to make the most of your downtime now. If you’re already at level 90, and caught up with the main scenario, there are still plenty of useful ways to ensure you’re in the best position… Read more... View the full article

A short Star Wars fan game about a stormtrooper fighting off his undead comrades (and its sequel set on Endor) have both gone viral online as fans realize that a horror game set in the popular sci-fi franchise would be awesome. Read more... View the full article

Whether you’re watching it or not, everybody’s talking about Amazon Prime’s Fallout. It’s a great show, so it’s not surprising to see the ardent discourse about it online. And as people fall in love with the post-apocalyptic world and wry humor of the show, many are flocking to the games to visit (or revisit) that… Read more... View the full article

The Hades 2 technical test is currently live for those lucky enough to have gotten access, and I can confirm that Supergiant Games’ highly anticipated (and first ever) sequel is exactly what it should be, and then some. I had a feeling Hades 2 would be good from the moment I booted up the game and heard the… Read more... View the full article

Arrowhead Studios continues loading up Helldivers 2 with new content including a new powerhouse rifle with jet-propelled shells that explode on impact. It’s called the R-36 Eruptor and it makes clearing out Automaton Fabricators and Terminid bug holes a breeze. You’ll need to fork over some cash or grind super credits… Read more... View the full article

Hades is famously known for its tight action gameplay, unmatched ability to weave narrative into a run-based roguelike, and for Supergiant Games making the pantheon of Greek gods fine as hell. The team said that beauty was a virtue in its character design, but the fact that the original game lacked body diversity… Read more... View the full article

It is official: Netflix’s series based on The Witcher has been renewed for a fifth and final season. The fourth season is currently in production and both seasons will be shot back-to-back. Get ready to bid the Continent farewell, folks. Read more... View the full article

Salad, a cloud computing and AI tech company, is renting high-end graphics cards found in gamers’ computers and using all that power to create AI-generated pornography. In return, the gamers who lend the company their GPUs are paid in Fortnite skins, Minecraft cosmetics, Roblox bux, and other gaming-related gift cards… Read more... View the full article

NVIDIA today announced optimizations across all its platforms to accelerate Meta Llama 3, the latest generation of the large language model (LLM). The open model combined with NVIDIA accelerated computing equips developers, researchers and businesses to innovate responsibly across a wide variety of applications. Trained on NVIDIA AI Meta engineers trained Llama 3 on a computer cluster packing 24,576 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, linked with an NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand network. With support from NVIDIA, Meta tuned its network, software and model architectures for its flagship LLM. To further advance the state of the art in generative AI, Meta recently described plans to scale its infrastructure to 350,000 H100 GPUs. Putting Llama 3 to Work Versions of Llama 3, accelerated on NVIDIA GPUs, are available today for use in the cloud, data center, edge and PC. From a browser, developers can try Llama 3 at ai.nvidia.com. It’s packaged as an NVIDIA NIM microservice with a standard application programming interface that can be deployed anywhere. Businesses can fine-tune Llama 3 with their data using NVIDIA NeMo, an open-source framework for LLMs that’s part of the secure, supported NVIDIA AI Enterprise platform. Custom models can be optimized for inference with NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM and deployed with NVIDIA Triton Inference Server. Taking Llama 3 to Devices and PCs Llama 3 also runs on NVIDIA Jetson Orin for robotics and edge computing devices, creating interactive agents like those in the Jetson AI Lab. What’s more, NVIDIA RTX and GeForce RTX GPUs for workstations and PCs speed inference on Llama 3. These systems give developers a target of more than 100 million NVIDIA-accelerated systems worldwide. Get Optimal Performance with Llama 3 Best practices in deploying an LLM for a chatbot involves a balance of low latency, good reading speed and optimal GPU use to reduce costs. Such a service needs to deliver tokens — the rough equivalent of words to an LLM — at about twice a user’s reading speed which is about 10 tokens/second. Applying these metrics, a single NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU generated about 3,000 tokens/second — enough to serve about 300 simultaneous users — in an initial test using the version of Llama 3 with 70 billion parameters. That means a single NVIDIA HGX server with eight H200 GPUs could deliver 24,000 tokens/second, further optimizing costs by supporting more than 2,400 users at the same time. For edge devices, the version of Llama 3 with eight billion parameters generated up to 40 tokens/second on Jetson AGX Orin and 15 tokens/second on Jetson Orin Nano. Advancing Community Models An active open-source contributor, NVIDIA is committed to optimizing community software that helps users address their toughest challenges. Open-source models also promote AI transparency and let users broadly share work on AI safety and resilience. Learn more about how NVIDIA’s AI inference platform, including how NIM, TensorRT-LLM and Triton use state-of-the-art techniques such as low-rank adaptation to accelerate the latest LLMs. View the full article

Helldivers 2 has spent the last several months on fire. On one hand, it’s easily one of the most popular games of the year, and folks have loved jumping into the exciting co-op shooter and keeping up with its galactic war story. Players log on for a few hours at a time, fighting off bugs or robots and propelling one… Read more... View the full article

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Destiny 2 is gradually getting closer to ending a 10-year-old story saga with The Final Shape. The expansion, releasing on June 4, isn’t the last we’ll see for developer Bungie’s online shooter, but it will close a few long-standing character arcs and story lines, like pitting you against The Witness, an entity that… Read more... View the full article

Starfield’s updates have been sporadic and underwhelming since it arrived over seven months ago. It’s clear the team at Bethesda has been diligently fixing bugs and adding small improvements, but it doesn’t feel like the open-world RPG has gotten the same amount of post-launch love as some of its peers. Director Todd… Read more... View the full article

Larian Studios has given a few details on what it’s up to after Baldur’s Gate 3. And it’s projects plural! The team is apparently working on two new games after the success of its Dungeons & Dragons RPG last year. Read more... View the full article

The hottest show right now, aside from FX’s Shogun—which has been living rent-free in my head since its February 27 debut—is Amazon Prime’s Fallout. The series is great, hitting on the game’s comedy and drama in interesting and surprising ways. Everyone’s loving it, myself included. So, too, are the celebrities, like B… Read more... View the full article

Pretty much every change Niantic makes to Pokémon GO results in enormous backlash from its vast community of players. That’s usually because pretty much every change Niantic makes to Pokémon GO is disastrous and stupid. The latest is a new avatar creator, and guess what. Read more... View the full article

The second DLC pack for Final Fantasy 16, The Rising Tide, is officially playable around the world. Compared to its predecessor, Echoes of the Fallen, The Rising Tide promises a longer campaign and new Eikonic powers for Mr. Clive Rosfield to bring into battle. That said, if you’re still early in your journey across… Read more... View the full article

Originally released in 1999, Final Fantasy VIII may not have gone on to enjoy the critical acclaim of its predecessor, that being the one and only Final Fantasy 7, but it’s certainly earned its place in the hearts of many a Final Fantasy fan. Read more... View the full article

Larian Studios may not be making Baldur’s Gate 4 and Hasbro is talking with new partners about the series’ future, but Baldur’s Gate 3 still has some juice left in it. The development team has released some new information about the game’s big Patch 7, and it sounds like it will be another substantial update with new… Read more... View the full article

It’s time to get a little wicked. Members can now stream No Rest for the Wicked from the cloud. It leads six new games joining the GeForce NOW library of more than 1,500 games. Holy Moly There’s always another fight to be won. No Rest for the Wicked is the highly anticipated action role-playing game from Moon Studios, developer of the Ori series, and publisher Private Division. Amid a plague-ridden world, step into the boots of a Cerim, a holy warrior on a desperate mission. The Great Pestilence has ravaged the land of Sacra, and a new king reigns. As a colonialist inquisition unfolds, engage in visceral combat, battle plague-infested creatures and uncover the secrets of the continent. Make the character you want with the game’s flexible soft-class system, explore a rich storyline, and prepare for intense boss battles as you build up the town of Sacrament. Embark on a dark and perilous journey, where no rest awaits the wicked. Rise to the challenge and stream from GeForce RTX 4080 servers with a GeForce NOW Ultimate membership for the smoothest gameplay from the cloud. Be among the first to experience early access of the game, without having to wait for downloads. Shiny New Games “Yippie ki-yay, evil doers!” Become a Wild West superhero in Evil West, streaming on GeForce NOW this week and part of PC Game Pass. It’s part of six newly supported games this week: Kill It With Fire 2 (New release on Steam, April 16) The Crew Motorfest (New release on Steam, April 18) No Rest for the Wicked (New release on Steam, April 18) Evil West (Xbox, available on PC Game Pass) Lightyear Frontier (Steam) Tomb Raider I-III Remastered (Steam) Riot Games shared in its 14.8 patch notes that it will soon add its Vanguard security software to League of Legends as part of the publisher’s commitment to remove scripters, bots and bot-leveled accounts from the game and make it more challenging for them to continue. Since Vanguard won’t support virtual machines when it’s added to League of Legends, the game will be put under maintenance and will no longer be playable on GeForce NOW once the 14.9 update goes live globally — currently planned for May 1, 2024. Members can continue to enjoy the game on GeForce NOW until then. What are you planning to play this weekend? Let us know on X or in the comments below. View the full article

Patch Notes Content Updates[Content - Improvements] The "Exalted Hiram Infusion" and "Dimensional Hiram Infusion" can now be used on all Hiram Guardian Equipment. To ease the difficulty of upgrading to Brilliant Hiram Guardian Equipment from Hiram Guardian Equipment, we have expanded the use of "Exalted Hiram Infusion" and "Dimensional Hiram Infusion" from Glorious Hiram Guardian Equipment to all tiers of Hiram Guardian Equipment. "Enhance" is now available for Erenor and Awakened Erenor equipment. Based on your feedback about the inability to use the "Enhance" system on Erenor and Awakened Erenor equipment despite their enhanced stats, we have adjusted the system. The "Enhance" feature is now available for both Erenor and Awakened Erenor equipment, ensuring better balance with other equipment.Enhance levels vary depending on the Equipment grade.WeaponsMythic (Lv11) Grade: up to 4 levelsEternal (Lv12) Grade: up to 10 levelsArmorMythic (Lv11) Grade: up to 2 levelsEternal (Lv12) Grade: up to 5 levels [Abyssal Kraken] Instead of awakening during the "Defeat the Kraken!" quest, the Abyssal Kraken will now appear directly with a certain chance. The Abyssal Kraken now has a certain chance to appear when you encounter the Kraken. [Design] Changed the crafting materials for the Luna Charm Rank 6. Removed the "Territory Coin" crafting material.Increased the required quantity of "Superior Lunarite" by 5 (from 20 to 25). Bug FixesFixed an issue where Kraken was not displayed on the Sea Monster Sonar. Fixed an issue where Brown Thorn Hedgehog was abnormally spawning in the Great Prairie of the West area. Events"Garden Arcane Manastone" event has begun. (Until May. 16th (Thur), 2024 before maintenance) Defeat Legendary boss monsters in Garden of the Gods to receive "Garden Arcane Manastone Crystal" and "Unstable Erenor Infusions" as additional rewards.Complete "Fairy Request" quest at Rank 4 or above to receive "Garden Arcane Manastone" as an additional reward.You can use a "Garden Arcane Manastone" to craft "Sealed Mana Arcane Infusion" with Radiant Hiram Infusion x10."Sealed Mana Arcane Infusion" can be traded.View the full article

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.View the full article

NVIDIA today recognized 18 partners in Europe, the Middle East and Africa for their achievements and commitment to driving AI adoption. The recipients were honored at the annual EMEA Partner Day hosted by the NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN). The awards span seven categories that highlight the various ways partners work with NVIDIA to transform the region’s industries with AI. “This year marks another milestone for NVIDIA and our partners across EMEA as we pioneer technological breakthroughs and unlock new business opportunities using NVIDIA’s full-stack platform,” said Dirk Barfuss, director of EMEA channel at NVIDIA. “These awards celebrate our partners’ dedication and expertise in delivering groundbreaking solutions that drive cost efficiencies, enhance productivity and inspire innovation.” The 2024 NPN award winners for EMEA are: Rising Star Awards Vesper Technologies received the Rising Star Northern Europe award for its exceptional revenue growth and broad customer base deploying NVIDIA AI solutions in data centers. The company has demonstrated outstanding growth in recent years, augmenting the success of its existing business. AMBER AI & Data Science Solutions GmbH received the Rising Star Central Europe award for its revenue growth of more than 100% across the complete portfolio of NVIDIA technologies. Through extensive collaboration with NVIDIA, the company has become a cornerstone of the NVIDIA partner landscape in Germany. HIPER Global Enterprise Ltd. received the Rising Star Southern Europe & Middle East award for its excellence in serving its broad customer base with NVIDIA compute technologies. Last year, it supported one of the largest customer projects in the region, further accelerating its growth rate. Star Performer Awards Boston Limited received the Star Performer Northern Europe award for its consistent success in delivering full-stack implementations of NVIDIA technologies for customers across industries. The company over the last year achieved record revenue growth across its business areas. DELTA Computer Products GmbH received the Star Performer Central Europe award for its outstanding sales achievements and strong customer relationships. With a massive technical knowledge base, the company has served as a trusted advisor for customers deploying NVIDIA technologies across industry, higher education and research. COMMit DMCC received the Star Performer Southern Europe & Middle East award for its exceptional execution of strategic and complex solutions built on NVIDIA technologies, which led to record revenues for the United Arab Emirates-based company. Distributor of the Year PNY received the Distributor of the Year award for the third consecutive year, underscoring its consistent investment in technology training and commitment to providing NVIDIA accelerated computing platforms and software across markets. TD Synnex received the Networking Distributor of the Year award for the second year in a row, highlighting its massive investments in NVIDIA’s portfolio of technologies — especially networking — and dedication to delivering technical expertise to customers. Go-to-Market Excellence Bynet Data Communications Ltd. received the Go-to-Market Excellence award for its collaboration with NVIDIA regional leads to devise and execute effective go-to-market strategies for the Israeli market. This included identifying key opportunities and creating localized marketing campaigns. Its efforts led to great success with the installation of NVIDIA DGX SuperPODs into several new industries in the region. Vesper Technologies was Highly Commended in the Go-to-Market Excellence category for its fully integrated go-to-market strategy around the launch of the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip. The company successfully deployed a results-driven marketing campaign, demonstrated a commitment to technical training and developed a pre-sales trial and evaluation platform. M Computers s.r.o. was Highly Commended in the Go-to-Market Excellence category for its success and leadership in engaging AI customers in eastern Europe with NVIDIA technologies. The company’s marketing efforts, including speeches at AI events and social media campaigns, helped lead to the first NVIDIA DGX H100 and NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip projects in the region. Industry Innovation WPP received the Industry Innovation award for its innovative applications of AI and NVIDIA technology in the marketing and advertising sector. The company worked with NVIDIA to build a groundbreaking generative AI-powered content engine, built on the NVIDIA Omniverse platform, that enables the creation of brand-consistent content at scale. Ascon Systems was Highly Commended in the Industry Innovation category for its cutting-edge Industrial Metaverse Portal, powered by NVIDIA Omniverse, that helped transform BMW Group’s manufacturing processes with real-time product control and enhanced visualization and interaction. Gcore was Highly Commended in the Industry Innovation category for its creation of the first speech-to-text technology for Luxembourgish, using its fine-tuned LuxemBERT AI model. The technology integrates seamlessly into corporate systems and Luxembourgish messaging platforms, fostering the preservation of the traditionally spoken language, which lacked adequate tools for written communication. Pioneer Arrow Electronics – Intelligent Business Solutions received the Pioneer Award for its work promoting the NVIDIA IGX Orin platform for healthcare applications and building strategies to drive adoption of the technology. The company’s innovative approach and support led to the first integration of the NVIDIA IGX Orin Developer Kit with an NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation GPU for a robotic surgery platform. Consulting Partner of the Year SoftServe received the Consulting Partner of the Year award for its excellence in working with partners to drive the adoption of NVIDIA’s full-stack technologies, helping transform customers’ business with generative AI and NVIDIA Omniverse. Through its SoftServe University corporate learning hub, SoftServe trained its employees, customers and partners to expertly use NVIDIA technology. Deloitte was Highly Commended in the Consulting Partner of the Year category for its focus on building sales and technical skills, efforts to deliver meaningful impact through projects and go-to-market strategy that helped drive enterprise-level AI transformation in the region. Data Monsters was highly commended in the Consulting Partner of the Year category for its development of a virtual assistant with lifelike hearing, speech and animation capabilities using NVIDIA Avatar Cloud Engine and large language models. ​​Learn how to join NPN, or find a local NPN partner. View the full article

Immersive sims are traditionally thought of as single-player titles. They can be really dense and systems-heavy games in which having even one player introduces an incredible number of variables, as that one player uses the freedom they’re afforded to tackle situations in any number of ways. It takes no small amount… Read more... View the full article

The opening level of Doom 2 is very short. Without any practice, most players can easily finish it in less than a minute. But back in 1998, one skilled speedrunner completed the small level in five seconds. And finally, after nearly three decades of people suggesting it was impossible to beat, someone was able to… Read more... View the full article