It’s been a whirlwind of news on the tariff front and Taiwan has avoided tariffs for now. But the timing of a $100 billion commitment by TSMC to build chip manufacturing plants in the U.S. may have helped. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is the biggest chipmaker in the world, but most of its chips are made in Taiwan. Donald Trump annou…Read More
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Sandsoft folds three more games into its hybrid-casual mobile roster
Sandsoft has partnered with three more developers and brought Wizario, Potions & Spells and Iza’s Supermarket to its stable of games.Read More
Monster Hunter Wilds becomes fastest-selling RE engine title in Capcom’s history
Monster Hunter Wilds shatters sales records in just three short days, but what are the pros and cons of the RE engine it runs on?Read More
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 is real and adds new levels
After some teasing, Activision has revealed Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4. It will release on July 11 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. It’ll be available for Game Pass Ultimate and Game Pass PC subscribers Preorders of the game give access to a demo in June featuring the iconic Foundry level fr…Read More
Contextual AI’s new AI model crushes GPT-4o in accuracy — here’s why it matters
Contextual AI launches its Grounded Language Model (GLM) that achieves 88% factual accuracy, outperforming major competitors while minimizing hallucinations for enterprise applications.Read More
Playable Worlds’ Stars Reach could be the next big sandbox sci-fi MMORPG
Stars Reach, the new sandbox sci-fi online game coming from Playable Worlds, aims to be the next big sci-fi massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It’s in the middle of a Kickstarter campaign, and it’s going pretty well. Stars Reach hit its Kickstarter goal of $200,000 in one hour and it’s now crossed $499,000 with 23 day…Read More
Cohere’s first vision model Aya Vision is here with broad, multilingual understanding and open weights — but there’s a catch
Aya Vision 8B and 32B demonstrate best-in-class performance relative to their parameter size, outperforming much larger models.Read More
Virtually Human Studio launches beta for Web3 Zed Champions game
Virtually Human Studio, which created the successful blockchain horse racing game Zed Run, announced the beta launch of Zed Champions.Read More
Acclaim Entertainment reborn as indie game publisher focused on original IP
Acclaim Entertainment, the legendary company published titles like Mortal Kombat in the 1980s and 1990s, is back as an indie game publisher.Read More
Colossal BioSciences genetically engineers mouse with warm coat taken from woolly mammoth’s genes
Colossal Biosciences announced it has genetically engineered the Colossal Woolly Mouse, which has a warm coat like the woolly mammoth.Read More