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While we’ve heard much talk of the supposed superpowers Elon Musk’s Neuralink project might enable, it hits differently to see it working for yourself in a game. Musk’s current chip-on-brain testing project (“PRIME”) has had two participants so far, and it looks like the second one’s wasted no time getting to gaming on PC.
Neuralink’s “Link” is a brain-computer interface (BCI)—a device that gets surgically implanted into the brain and is intended to allow one to control digital devices by neural activity, ie, thought. According to the latest Neuralink PRIME study progress update, Alex, the second participant, has not only been making fast use of the Link for 3D print designs in CAD software Fusion 360, but he’s also been using it to play Counter-Strike 2.
Alex is using the Link to literally think where to go in the game, and it takes him there.
This is more than an extravagant luxury, too, because Alex has a spinal cord injury that mak…
Signups are now open for the final closed beta test for Honkai: Star Rail, the next game from Genshin Impact developer MiHoYo.
Announced in October 2021, Honkai: Star Rail is a “space fantasy RPG” that promises to let players explore “immense worlds of the unknown.” Associate editor Tyler Colp described it last year as “anime Mass Effect,” with thematic and potential direct ties to Honkai Impact 3rd, MiHoYo’s pre-Genshin Impact game.
“Unlike Genshin, Honkai: Star Rail isn’t really open world,” he wrote in his June 2022 preview. “There are big cities and sections of planets to explore, but you don’t pick up berries and activate towers to reveal a massive world map. Instead, the game’s focus is on its turn-based combat. You and the robotic enemies you’re up against throw elemental abilities back and forth and try to exploit each other’s weaknesses. It’s kind of like Pokémon, but the Pokémon have white hair and catchphrases. Every character has an ultimate abi…
Intel is betting big on its next-gen Arc graphics. So says a report from Taiwan, where the chips will be made by TSMC. However, with a launch date of the second half of next year, the new GPUs are said to be arriving later than previously reported.
According to Commercial Times (via Tom’s Hardware), Intel has placed “large orders” with TSMC to produce its next two generations of Arc gaming graphics chips, codenamed Battlemage and Celestial respectively.
Sadly, Commercial Times doesn’t quantify exactly how large those orders from TSMC will be, only saying that, “Intel is optimistic that e-sports and AI and other related applications will drive strong demand for GPUs.”
Battlemage will reportedly be built on TSMC’s 4nm node, while Celestial will use TSMC’s new 3nm lithography. TSMC currently manufactures Intel’s existing generation of Intel Arc graphics, codenamed Alchemist and including the Intel Arc A770 board, and on its 7nm node.
As for those launch dates, C…
Nvidia has released its latest earnings info showing revenues down by 46% in the most recent quarter compared with the same period a year ago. However, with the computing industry on the cusp of an AI revolution, Nvidia is bullish about the future, something the market seems to agree with. The company’s share price is up by over a third since the beginning of the year.
Overall, Nvidia’s revenues for the quarter were down by a lesser 21% for a total of $6.95 billion. That’s because Nvidia’s data center revenue for the period is actually up 11% to $3.61 billion. Gaming graphics revenues for the quarter were $1.83 billion for reference.
So, in the space of a year Nvidia’s gaming graphics has gone from equal to roughly half that of its data center revenues. Yikes.
Notable from the earnings call attended by Nvidia’s head honcho Jensen Huang was virtually no talk of gaming graphics beyond the headline figures. It was all about AI.
The explosion of generative AI mod…
A Fred Durst New Vegas companion who speaks only in Limp Bizkit sound clips—alright, so far, so NexusMods. But what about a Limp Bizkit New Vegas mod that was thought lost forever since 2016 or so? Thanks to Twitter user UsagiCola (and brought to a wider audience by Elder Scrolls YouTuber Micky D), the Fred Durst mod is no longer lost media.
Aside from a vestigial Reddit post, the YouTube video “My Fred Durst Mod for Fallout: NV (**LORE FRIENDLY**)” remained the only evidence of New Vegas Fred Durst’s passing. Initially released in 2015, it seems that within a year or so the mod was already wiped from the New Vegas Nexus. “Yo wtf did this get taken down” opined commenter lindraw approximately seven years ago. “I think it did, sorry :(” replied mod author lb8068. “I recently reformatted my computer so I doubt I have any of the files left over here.”
That would have been the end of New Vegas Fred Durst, after all, what is one lost shitpost mod in an ocean made…