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Capcom has slowly been trickling little bits of info about Monster Hunter Wilds, the successor to 2018’s Monster Hunter World, and we were lucky enough to see a little bit more of it during Summer Game Fest.

It’s a relatively short snippet, but shows a surprising amount that has already gotten me stupidly excited to dive into the game next year. It starts off with the hunter riding their seikret—the very chocobo-ass looking mounts that have been making a lotta appearances in the trailers lately—before the cutscene seamlessly unfolds into gameplay. There’s a lot of running away from sandworms here, but then the hunter pulls their weapon out while mounted and starts slashing away. 

It sounds minor, but that’s something we’ve never seen in a Monster Hu…

Nvidia has announced its latest GPU architecture, Blackwell, and it’s filled with upgrades galore for AI inference and a few hints at what might be instore for next-gen gaming graphics cards. In the same breath as its announcement at GTC, major tech companies were also announcing the many thousands of systems they’ve just snapped up with Blackwell on-board.

AWS, Amazon’s datacenter arm, announced it’s bringing Nvidia’s Grace Blackwell Superchips—two Blackwell GPUs and a Grace CPU incorporated on a single board—to EX2, which are effectively on-demand compute resources in the cloud. It’s also already agreed to bring 20,736 GB200 Superchips (that’s 41,472 Blackwell GPUs in total) to Project Ceiba, an AI supercomputer on AWS used by Nvidia for its own in-house AI R&D. …

When you think of Dyson, you probably think of vacuum cleaners. Or perhaps those fancy hand-dryer thingys that force you to move your hands up and down in a slot in posh pub toilets. But think again! It’s just announced a set of noise-cancelling headphones, and they look absolutely humongous.

The Dyson OnTrac headphones are not the first set that Dyson has tried its hand at producing, as who could possibly forget the Dyson Zone, a set of cans with an attachable air-purifying “travel visor” that made you look like an extra in Mad Max. Not a convincing sell for many, I’d imagine, but the OnTrac’s design suggests that style may be a top priority for its latest models, as you can apparently customise it to your heart’s content.

The outer chassis comes in four different colourway…

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty is a preem spy thriller adventure. However, if your V really isn’t that interested in working with government types, you can choose not to sign on to a life of martinis shaken, not stirred.

Only issue is, choosing to do so locks you out of the questline—and from what I’ve tested, it’s permanent. At minimum it’ll delay your progression through the DLC’s story substantially, but I don’t get the sense Reed’s gonna call me back.

Here’s the mostly spoiler-free rundown: at the end of a mission called Lucretia My Reflection, you’ll be given a choice to stay or go. If you go, you really do go—you fail the mission, and are roadblocked from proceeding. 

You can still run around Dogtown, but there’ll be no…

Mods are a contentious issue in the FF14 community, being that they’re against the terms of service. Just in case, let me caveat my explainer of this delightful mod with the statement that I don’t use it, and that I got these screenshots from an unnamed friend.  

In a broader sense, I’m generally against mods that impact your gameplay, such as the ones that caused a fuss during the Dragonsong’s Reprise (Ultimate) controversy last year. We don’t need a World of Warcraft-style arms race between developer and modder.

However, some mods add such great features that I’m shocked they’re not a part of the core experience, such as the Orange Guidance Tomestone mod, which is available via the Dalamud plugin.

Final Fantasy 14 is ripe for in-jokes, with a beloved story and a…

Street Fighter 6’s next character is “A.K.I.,” a tall, sinuous woman with poisonous fingernails who’ll make her series debut this fall. In her teaser trailer, Aki delights in poisoning someone who just wanted to buy some medicine, stalking about them in a circle and describing the horrible effects of the botulinum toxin she’s just dosed them with. Not very nice!

SF6’s official accounts describe Aki as “a maniacal poison aficionado” who “can’t wait to sink her nails into her opponents.” Some are speculating she might be the heir to, or apprentice of, poison master F.A.N.G. from Street Fighter 5. Either way it’s clear she’s squarely in the villain camp.

Tall and armed with long vicious claws atop her fingernails, Aki has a few places she could obviously slot in SF6’s lin…

Despite its critical success, most of the discourse surrounding Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree involves how difficult the game is, with many players bogged down by brutal boss fights and an unforgiving environment. It got so bad that the DLC is currently at Mixed reviews on Steam as many players agree it’s too hard to be enjoyable, but even still, there are some fans who think the high skill ceiling is a great feature and one that makes FromSoft games stand out. 

One such person is Helldivers 2 director Johan Pilestedt, who recently began replying to Shadow of the Erdtree players, discussing its difficulty and talking about why he actually likes it. “The games industry is now big enough for there to be so many exciting experiences for all audiences,” Pilestedt says. “I try…

Relic and Sega are poised to kick open the doors to World War 2 again today with the arrival of Company of Heroes 3. Preloading has already started, so if you’ve already done that all you’ll need to do is wait just a wee while longer. In the meantime, you can find out when it unlocks in your time zone below. 

When does Company of Heroes 3 unlock?

Company of Heroes 3 unlocks on Thursday, February 23, at 10 am PST and Friday, February 24, at 5 am AEDT, but you can get all set in advance by preloading it, which you can do right now. Here’s what the unlock time is in different regions:

• GMT: 6 pm, February 23
• CET: 7 pm, February 23
• PST: 10 am, February 23
• EST: 1 pm, February 23
• BRT: 3 pm, February…
  

The launch of the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB has come and gone—apparently. Dave called it “a truly cynical graphics card, an almost petulant one” and I don’t disagree. A quick check at Newegg reveals listings for several models, with all six being out of stock. It’s not all that cynical to suggest it’s being withheld to avoid negative press. The RTX 4060 Ti 8GB was already the recipient of a frosty reception, and with a 25% higher asking price, the 16GB model faces an uphill battle. To put it mildly.

You might have expected one or two reviewers to get hold of a card through back channels, or snag one from a distributor, but it just hasn’t happened. That tells you a lot about the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB. It’s a card Nvidia, its AIB partners, and—at $500—consumers have little enthu…