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Starting Wednesday July 24, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will hit Microsoft’s Game Pass service, including PC Game Pass. It’ll be the second big Activision Blizzard game to hit the service since Diablo 4 earlier this year. It’s the full game, including the singleplayer campaign, multiplayer mode, and the cooperative PvE zombies mode—which comes in extraction shooting flavor for Modern Warfare 3.

We’ve known that this year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 would hit Game Pass immediately, but the addition of Modern Warfare 3 to Game Pass was just announced on the Xbox website earlier today.

Game Pass has been in the news this month after a $2 price hike on PC was announced for September, along with a reorganization of how it’s structured for console players—which mo…

Remember when we reported some market data indicating Meta had snapped up 150,000 of Nvidia’s beastly H100 AI chips? Now it turns out Meta wants to have more than double that at 350,000 of the big silicon things by the end of the year.

Most estimates put the price of an Nvidia H100 GPU at between $20,000 and $40,000. Meta along with Microsoft are Nvidia’s two biggest customers for H100, so it’s safe to assume it will be paying less than most.

However, some basic arithmetic around Nvidia’s reported AI revenues and its unit shipments of H100 reveals that Meta can’t be paying an awful lot if any less than the lower end of that price range, which works out to roughly $7 billion worth of Nvidia AI chips over two years. For sure, then, at the very least we’re talking about many bi…

In yearly tradition, Minecraft is letting us choose what kind of creature will be included in its next major update. The mob vote is back for 2023: Ahead of the yearly Minecraft Live show on October 15, we’ll be able to cast our votes on three different mob hopefuls, which Mojang has begun introducing today.

Our first potential new mob is the crab, which lives in the mangrove swamp biome. Mojang says that the crab claw (presumably possible loot from killing crabs) will help players place blocks further away from themselves. So it’s like one of those long pole grabby hooks, then. I imagine that will help build-focused players like me complete projects without running about to different sides of our scaffolding while working on roofs and other details.

Mojang will be announcin…

AI image generation is all the rage, and you could be forgiven for thinking with all this talk of AI PCs, NPUs and Nvidia H100s that it’s only ultra-modern hardware that’s up to the task. Turns out, however, that even the elderly Commodore 64 can get in on the action, thanks to some algorithm wrangling and a good dose of old-fashioned ingenuity.

Hackaday user Nick Bild has put together a project detailing how the now 42-year-old machine was made to perform a task traditionally thought of as very hardware intensive, through the adaptation of a probabilistic PCA algorithm, which was then used to produce 8×8 retro game sprites. 

An initial model was built using modified Python code, before being trained on around 100 sprites created with the use of a custom spreadsheet on …

I better come out and confess right off the bat here, as I wouldn’t technically buy these chips. But’s only because I already have a Ryzen 9 7900 in my AM5 test PC and it’s an absolute peach of a CPU. Fast, energy-efficient, and easy to cool, it breezes through any game I care to run on that machine.

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But if I was heading into the Prime Day deals to find a CPU for a full system upgrade, I’d be sorely tempted by either of the above and it’s not just because they’re super cheap compared to their launch MSRPs.

What you’ve got are two versions of the same processor, the Ryzen 9 7900X. That is basically the same one as the chip I have but w…

BaroneWatch 2024 has concluded: The Stardew Valley 1.6 update is now live, and that means we’ve finally got the full rundown of all the changes in the long-awaited update.

Stardew Valley’s 1.6 update, lest you’ve forgotten, was intended to be a small thing: Creator Eric Barone warned players in 2022 that it would be mostly focused on support for modders, and “won’t be huge.” 

That promise didn’t last long, as Barone kept piling things on: A new farm type, three new festivals, support for eight-person multiplayer, “new late-game content,” and more.

The promise of all those new things to see and do naturally got fans properly wound up, and Barone’s tease that the update “adds so much stuff to all the different aspects of the game” did not calm that situation down. N…

How timely it is that, just days after the last Super Blue Moon, a second sneak peak at the Project: Blue Moon TTRPG should arise. This upcoming tabletop game by R. Talsorian games—makers of the Cyperpunk RED TTRPG—comes from Cody Pondsmith, whose mind birthed The Witcher TTRPG. 

Just to be clear, Project: Blue Moon isn’t the final name for the game. It’s just a working title, but where Ponsmith neglects it’s name, he sure as heck makes up for it in atmosphere. Prepare yourself for a dangerous, Japanese-themed world full of dragon spirits and ever-churning death machines.

The first Blue Moon TTRPG sneak peak (via Dicebreaker) showed off some ethereal, east-Asian inspired artwork featuring a great Torii gate and lanterns. Behind it, trees of…