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A few years ago, I had the chance to ask Alex Ward, the co-founder of Criterion Games, about the driving model for the Burnout series. I had heard from a friend that beneath the arcadey immediacy lay physics of rare nuance and beauty. I was reverent in my questioning, even if I was slightly clueless - is it a driving model or a handling model or a physics model? - and Ward, thankfully, was having none of it.
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XPSemu, a native PlayStation 5 port of the open-source xemu emulator, has reached its first public Alpha 1 build, running Halo 2 at 36 to 50 fps in gameplay with a 60 fps patch on jailbroken consoles.
Archestra released OpenAPPA, an open-source security engine designed to stop data exfiltration caused by prompt injection or model hallucination. The team reports zero successful attacks when running security benchmarks Bench-Corp (20 multi-step enterprise workflows) and AgentThreatBench, versus 10% for Claude Code’s auto mode and 31% for Microsoft FIDES. By Bruno Couriol
Yesterday's free Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remastered upgrade might have propelled the old role-playing game to new heights, in terms of player popularity, but not everyone is happy with what's changed. A particular point of contention concerns the game's new lighting changes, which some people think has made The Witcher 3 too bright and washed out - though this is not the only issue.
If you thought Red Dead Redemption 2 's heavy winds and even heavier rain looked impressive, you might be happy to learn that Rockstar Games went back and "re-engineered our weather system" for GTA 6. Hurricanes, rainbows and "vertiginous cumulonimbus clouds" are all part of the upcoming open worlder.
Microsoft's Charles Lamanna says most business software will end up running behind AI agents rather than in front of users, leaving apps with less pricing power and customer loyalty. His comments come as Amazon blocks Meta's Muse agent from shopping on its site.
Despite mass layoffs at multiple first-party studios and major internal shakeups, CEO Asha Sharma has shot down speculation about a potential Xbox buyout.
Halo's ex-franchise director, Frank O'Connor, has given Activision a few pointers now that it's in charge of making the next Halo game with a "purpose-built team." Top of the list, hire some devs who were laid off from Bungie and Halo Studios.
Snipping Tool handles quick Windows 11 screenshots, while free ShareX adds scrolling capture, custom file names, and hotkeys for longer jobs. Continue reading at TweakTown
The University of Washington and Microsoft celebrated the official opening of the Global Innovation Exchange’s new permanent home on the tech giant's campus. Supported by a $42 million in-kind contribution from Microsoft, the rent-free facility embeds UW students and researchers alongside tech industry leaders.
Ubisoft has expanded the remit of Swedish studio Massive Entertainment - responsible for The Division series, Star Wars Outlaws and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - to become a second major part of the company and include more of its studios and game brands. Ubisoft also revealed Massive's work on a brand new, original game called March of Giants.
Back in July, new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced a total of 3,200 job cuts across Microsoft's gaming arm, with roughly half of those cuts being made alongside that announcement. The impact was vast. Various developers at Xbox studios, including Activision, Bethesda, Id Software, Blizzard, Mojang, and King suffered layoffs.
Uncharted series developer Naughty Dog is reportedly early in development on a new game in the action-adventure series. That's according to a report from MP1st, which said the game is bringing back series protagonist Nathan Drake in some form, suggesting he may not be the game's lead.
Since The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remastered's launch earlier this week, the debate around its lighting changes - whether it's overly brightened and washed out - has waged on. Now, CD Projekt Red has rolled out a patch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and the game's PC Xbox Play Anywhere version, which makes "various lighting adjustments" among other things.
"Look ma, no face," growls Marcus Fenix as I land a headshot on an Elite Sniper from across the map. The foley, wet with viscera and meat, drips and gloops in my ears. A nearby Locust roars its outrage, a chainsaw revs up to my left, and there's a big meaty slap of muscle on flesh as a Drone ambushes my right flank and tackles me to the floor. Gears of War is back, alright, and it's like it never left.
The early access launch of Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve kicked off on a down note due to some confusion regarding one of the game's pre-order bonuses. Pre-orders of the flight action game include a copy of 2006's Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War, but early adopters discovered it was not a standalone product, contrary to what they were lead to believe when they pre-ordered the game.
James Bond game 007 First Light is getting free DLC today in an Extended Operations update. This adds much-asked-for features to the game - such as New Game Plus, a new harder difficulty mode, a photo mode - as well as more TacSim mission challenges and a couple of game adjustments
The PC market was caught flat-footed by Apple’s MacBook Neo launch earlier this year, and while that laptop’s aggressive pricing strategy has already been forced to adapt to market conditions, it’s only months later we’re seeing Windows-based rivals announce their own respective competitors. Today, it’s HP’s turn, with a brand-new OLED-equipped laptop set to start at that same $699 price point, but not without plenty of strings attached.
Two top Microsoft executives shared this week that they're leaving the Redmond, Wash., tech giant: Peter Lee, the former head of Microsoft Research, and Ryan Roslansky, Microsoft executive vice president overseeing both LinkedIn and Microsoft Office.
Between sessions at EUC World Amplify in Milwaukee, we sat down for an extended conversation with an industry veteran whose fingerprints are all over the modern enterprise desktop: Scott Manchester. Many in our community know Manchester from his 25-year run at Microsoft, where he led Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and later Windows 365 Cloud PC.
The new HP OmniBook 5 is described as a premium consumer Windows laptop for those who "want more" from their everyday device. The base model features a 14-inch, 1,920 x 1,200 OLED multi-touch display coated in Gorilla Glass 3 that covers 100% of the DCI-P3 color space. It is driven...
Microsoft says cyberattackers are currently benefiting from artificial intelligence faster than defenders, allowing threat actors to speed up vulnerability discovery, malware development, and post-compromise activity while security teams struggle to keep pace.
Windows tracks what wakes your PC and which apps keep it awake. An elevated terminal and a few minutes are enough to track down what's behind yours. Continue reading at TweakTown
