General Gaming News.

[meiam]

Skies is one of the only Japanese RPGs I ever played through. Did it twice, I think. On Dreamcast, forever ago. No confidence in a new game. Sega is afraid of good game design.

I would guess they would go for a remake/remaster first.

SKies of arcadia: Eternal or something

 

[BrawlMan]

On to more important news than somebody's dumb ***** take about anime.

Ubisoft Shuts Down Its Studio in Leamington, Fires 185 Employees

The studio previously worked on Star Wars Outlaws, Skull and Bones, and Far Cry 5.

80.lv

Netflix Is Raising Prices Again, As It Discusses Vision For Video Games

Netflix is implementing another price hike and has discussed what's next for its plans in the video game space.

www.gamespot.com

Warner Bros. games president David Haddad to step down after 12 years

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment president David Haddad is stepping down after 12 years in the role.

www.pocketgamer.biz

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[Ezekiel]

Nice...

Nvidia Stock Price Colossally Crashes After New DeepSeek AI Model Emerges

Nvidia remains one of the world's largest companies by market cap, but the chip-maker is having a tough day on the stock market today. The company's share price slid by nearly 17% today, wiping out more than $500 billion in market cap. Should this hold through the end of the trading day, it would be far and away the biggest single-day trading loss for a company in history. Nvidia's previous $279 billion one-day dip is the existing record-holder.

Why is Nvidia stock tanking? The stock price had been surging for the past two years as investors felt bullish on the company's fortunes due to excitement in the market about artificial intelligence. Nvidia sells the necessary GPUs to train large-language models and for general AI use, after all.

But at the end of last week, Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek launched a new model, R1, that the company claims is far cheaper than other models out there, including Open AI's o1. The fear from investors, it seems, is that AI companies may not actually require as much computing power as it was once believed. This, in turn, could have spooked investors and sent Nvidia's stock price down.

Some of Nvidia's rivals in the AI space, including Arm and Broadcom, also saw their share prices slump on Monday. Stock prices regularly move, sometimes dramatically so, in response to relevant market announcements.

DeepSeek is not new, but instead was founded after a spin-out from hedge fund High-Flyer in 2023. DeepSeek's own paper said its R1 model was trained for a cost of about $5.6 million, which is just a small percentage of what OpenAI and others are said to have spent on their systems. Because DeepSeek's systems have made strides in software, they could be less reliant on hardware like the GPUs that Nvidia sells, and some experts believe DeepSeek might signal a sea-change in the AI landscape.

The emergence of DeepSeek's new model comes not long after President Trump announced a $500 billion AI infrastructure program, Stargate, led by investments from OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank. At least some of that appears to consist of existing investments that were previously announced.

As Motley Fool points out, there are some that believe DeepSeek is not being totally honest in explaining the true costs of its systems. AI researcher Nathan Lampert estimates DeepSeek's true training costs as being as high as $1 billion. Other AI experts, like Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, believe DeepSeek and others actually have more Nvidia chips than they may be allowed to disclose given export rules.


The launch of DeepSeek hasn't gone totally smoothly for the company. DeepSeek's own website states that it's facing "large-scale malicious attacks" on its services just days after releasing.

Nvidia is the No. 3 company worldwide based on market cap, only trailing behind Apple and Microsoft. The company's next move is launching its new GTX 50-series GPUs, which go on sale this week.

Nvidia Stock Price Colossally Crashes After New DeepSeek AI Model Emerges

The GPU-maker's share price is cratering after the emergence of an AI model from China.

www.gamespot.com

 

[FakeSympathy]

Nice...

Nvidia Stock Price Colossally Crashes After New DeepSeek AI Model Emerges

The GPU-maker's share price is cratering after the emergence of an AI model from China.

www.gamespot.com

Speaking of, some people are already camping out in front ot Micro Center locations in CA:

Campers appear outside Micro Center days ahead of RTX 5090 & 5080 launch

New images have surfaced this week showcasing a number of tech enthusiasts camping outside a major Micro Center in the hope of securing an RTX 5090/5080.

www.pcguide.com

Micro Center also posted their youtube video regarding 5090, discouraging people from camping out in front of their stores but also telling them it's first come, first serve?

The voucher system really annoys me. Reminds me of newegg shuffle w/ 30 series a few years back.

Don't know which is worse, though; the morons camping out to get these GPUs or MC that is exploiting their desperate state of mind

 

[Bedinsis]

...darn it, Nintendo.

 

[FakeSympathy]

Beloved Bethesda RPG voice actor Wes Johnson is in critical condition after being found 'unconscious and barely alive,' and his family is asking for help from fans

Oblivion's guards, Lucien Lachance, Sheogorath, and more were all brought to life by Wes Johnson.

www.pcgamer.com

Say what you want about Bethesda and the Elder scrolls games, but if you played any of them you can’t deny the impact he has had.

Wishing for a quick recovery.

 

[Worgen]

@Worgen

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Does look cool.

 

[Chimpzy]

Dino Crisis 1 and 2 shadow dropped on GOG

Dino Crisis Bundle

Dino Crisis Bundle includes: Dino Crisis Three years ago. A scientist died in an acc

www.gog.com

Also opened up Dreamlist, a community voting feature to see what folks want brought to the platform in the future

Dreamlist | GOG.COM

Explore our Dreamlist, vote for games you hope to see on GOG and contribute to game preservation!

www.gog.com

 

[FakeSympathy]

I can never get over how much of a comeback NMS has had ever since launch. And honestly, I kinda feel bad and happy for the devs at the same time.

Did they overpromise too much stuff? Oh absolutely. But at the same time it can be argued that they never promised they will all be available at launch, as much as that's a cop-out answer.

I also think the launch fiasco was on people who overhyped the game way too much, and harassed the devs for months before/after the launch, instead of moving on to other games gracefully like sane individuals.

But Sean and his team chugged along, and now the game is in much better state. FFS, Sean is holding back tears in this preview! Major kudos to everyone who has worked on the game all these years. But maybe don't promise too much stuff with next game, yeah?

 

[FakeSympathy]

Apparently, Sony is making PSN log-in optional for some of their PC ports. They are adding in-game incentives for those who do log-in

New in-game content incentives coming to PlayStation games on PC

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered, The Last of Us Part II Remastered, and God of War Ragnarok to offer in-game content unlocks for users playing with a PlayStation Network account

blog.playstation.com

Because of this, Spider-man 2 steam page currently looks a bit weird, as it has no option to pre-purchase and missing system requirement info. The page description still mentions PSN log-in requirement, which I imagine will be updated soon.

 

[CriticalGaming]

Well they might be listening to feedback considering the huge loses they took this year.

 

[BrawlMan]

Well they might be listening to feedback considering the huge loses they took this year.

They fucking better.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Apparently, Sony is making PSN log-in optional for some of their PC ports.

They need to dump the requirement across the board for all their PC games. The only purpose it serves is to inflate membership numbers to impress shareholders.

 

[FakeSympathy]

They need to dump the requirement across the board for all their PC games. The only purpose it serves is to inflate membership numbers to impress shareholders.

Hmm, I am guessing this is a first batch of more PS games to make the PSN optional, but it looks like they are giving it to more iconic games in their IP; So far it's for TLOU2 Remastered, GOW:R, HZD Remastered, and SM2.

Not sure how many games they will add, though; Because I don't think all Sony games on PC have PSN requirement

 

[Ezekiel]

Speaking of, some people are already camping out in front ot Micro Center locations in CA:

Campers appear outside Micro Center days ahead of RTX 5090 & 5080 launch

New images have surfaced this week showcasing a number of tech enthusiasts camping outside a major Micro Center in the hope of securing an RTX 5090/5080.

www.pcguide.com

Micro Center also posted their youtube video regarding 5090, discouraging people from camping out in front of their stores but also telling them it's first come, first serve?

The voucher system really annoys me. Reminds me of newegg shuffle w/ 30 series a few years back.

Don't know which is worse, though; the morons camping out to get these GPUs or MC that is exploiting their desperate state of mind

I saw that Nancy Pelosi beat the market again. Sold Nvidia stock worth millions weeks before.

That China did this many times more cheaply, using raw fucking math, is so humiliating for the American education system. Too much money given to administration, not enough to teachers, and the way kids are taught needs to be significantly reformed as well. But a poorly educated populace is probably what the owner class wanted. Makes them easier to manipulate. Incidentally, they stopped teaching civics because of the Vietnam War protests. Anyway, now it's coming back to bite them, hurting capital. If I controlled another country, I would be investing in China before USA. More rational and competent government. Human rights abuses? Like USA doesn't have a mountain of them.

 

[BrawlMan]

South of Midnight

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