Just in time for the holiday season — and, naturally, Epic’s Black Friday & Cyber Monday Sale, which is now live many days ahead of the actual Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
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Valve’s big hardware push: you asked, we answered.
With just a Gmail account, you’ll be able to “use AI-generated voiceovers, instantly clean up recordings with transcript trimming to remove silences and filler words, or give your visuals some pop with built-in AI image editing,” according to a blog post.
Abidur Chowdhury, who worked on the iPhone Air and introduced it during Apple’s September event, has reportedly left for an AI startup. Even though the phone hasn’t sold well, “his exit is unrelated to the debut of the phone, which has seen its design praised despite underwhelming sales,” according to Bloomberg.
After launching it in beta earlier this month, Valve has officially launched a new feature that lets you keep downloading games even when you turn the display off. I’ve wanted something like this since I first got a Steam Deck more than three years ago.
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After Riot Games closed down the studio behind the Minecraft-like Hytale earlier this year, the team behind the game has acquired it back from Riot, rehired developers, and is vowing to fund it for “the next 10 years” as an independent studio.
[Hytale]
The Game Awards’ Game of the Year nominees are out: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Donkey Kong Bananza, Hades II, Hollow Knight: Silksong, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. Expedition 33 got 12 nominations, the most “in TGA history.“
The show takes place on December 11th.
