Month: October 2024

Palworld เป็นเกมผจญภัย Open World แบบ Survival ผสม Multiplayer และระบบ Crafting โดยคุณจะได้พบกับเหล่ามอนสเตอร์สุดแปลกที่เรียกว่า Pals ที่เราสามารถจับมันมาสู้ สร้างสิ่งก่อสร้าง ใช้แรงงานในโรงงาน หรือจะเป็นเพื่อนเล่นก็ได้ เรียกได้ว่าความเป็นไปได้นั้นไม่มีที่สิ้นสุดคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง

แน่นอนว่าด้วยระบบเกมที่หลากหลายแบบนี้ ก็จะมีฟีเจอร์เด็ด ๆ ที่โดนใจผู้เล่นไม่น้อย โดยล่าสุดเหล่าเกมเมอร์บน Reddit ได้ออกมาชื่นชมฟีเจอร์สร้า�…

ถึงแม้จะมีอายุเกมหลายปีแล้ว แต่เกม MMORPG สายเลือดคลาสสิกจาก Blizzard Entertainment ที่อยู่คงกระพันกันมาตั้งแต่ตั้งไข่เกมออนไลน์ ยังสานต่อความสนุกกันได้อย่างต่อเนื่อง และตอนนี้เองก็ยิ่งพีคขึ้นไปอีกขั้นเพราะว่าล่าสุดได้มีการประกาศเปิดตัวโหมดการเล่นใหม่เรียบร้อยแล้วในรูปแบบ Battle Royale ที่รองรับผู้เล่นพร้อมกันสูงถึง 60 คนในแมตช์เดียว

โหมดใหม่ Plunderstorm ใน World of Warcraft

ในจำนวน 60 คนนี้หากเทียบกับเกมรูปแบบเอาต…

เกิดใหม่เป็นลูกโอชิ เป็นหนึ่งในอนิเมะที่ได้รับความนิยมอย่างมากในตอนนี้ โดยอนิเมะเรื่องนี้มาพร้อมกับเพลงเปิด ที่มีชื่อว่า IDOL ซึ่งขับร้องโดย YOASOBI ออกมาให้เราได้ฟังกันแบบเต็ม ๆ ซึ่งเพลงนี้ก็เรียกได้ว่าไพเราะโดนใจมาก ๆ โดยล่าสุดเพลงดังกล่าวขึ้นท็อปชาร์ตของญี่ปุ่นไปเป็นที่เรียบร้อย

นอกเหนือจากท็อปชาร์ตของญี่ปุ่นแล้ว เพลงนี้ยังครองตำแหน่งอันดับหนึ่งบน Spotify บนญี่ปุ่น นอกจากนี้วิดีโอ MV ของเพลงดังกล่าวยังขึ้นเพลงยอดฮิต�…

If you think FLAC is the audiophile’s friend when it comes to lossless music files, a large language model (LLM) has news for you, as it’s now laying claim to compression as part of AI’s growing realm of influence, too.

A study titled “Language Modeling Is Compression” (via ArsTechnica) discusses a finding about an LLM by DeepMind called Chinchilla 70B and its ability to perform lossless data compression better than FLAC for audio and PNG for pictures.

Chinchilla 70B could significantly shrink the size of image patches from the ImageNet database, reducing them to only 43.4% of their original size without losing any detail. This performance is better than the PNG algorithm, which could only reduce the image sizes to 58.5%.

Additionally, Chinchilla compresses audio data from the LibriSpeech to just 16.4% of their actual size for sound files. This is impressive, especially compared to the FLAC compression, which could only reduce the audio sizes to 30.3%.

Lossless compression means nothing is lost or left out when data is squeezed into smaller packages. This differs from lossy compression, which is what the image compression format JPEG uses. That remove…

Last week brought the unexpected news that Flappy Bird, the 2014 viral hit, is making a comeback. But the game’s creator Dong Nguyen was notably absent from the announcement, and the more you look into the apparent reboot the murkier it gets. Trademark shenanigans, a new “foundation” behind the relaunch, and the unmistakeable whiff of crypto: oh my.

Now Nguyen has made his first public statement in seven years, confirming he has no involvement with this relaunch of Flappy Bird, and doesn’t believe he’s sold any rights.

“No, I have no related [sic] with their game,” writes Nguyen on social media. “I did not sell anything. I also don’t support crypto.”

Necessary context for this is that Nguyen’s reaction to Flappy Bird’s overwhelming success back in 2014 was a surprising one. At the peak of the game’s popularity, Nguyen withdrew it from sale, saying that it was “a success of mine. But it also ruins my simple life. So now I hate it.”

As detailed in our original report, Flappy Bird subsequently became the subject of a behind-the-scenes trademark dispute in the United States between Nguyen and a Delaware-based company called Gametech. The long-and-short of t…

Fallout: London is a truly impressive mod, according to PCG writer Joshua Wolens—that is when you’re able to actually get it working and navigate all the performance issues and bugs. 

Since the mod’s release, players have reported a few game-ending crashes, including one fondly named the “train crash,” which has plagued most players. Not only will boarding the train to navigate apocalyptic London likely lead to your game crashing, but it will also cause a strange bug that halves players’ HP. 

“The issue with the train crash is quite a known one, and it’s been reported on quite a lot,” project manager Dean Carter says in an interview with VG247. “We never had that. We wouldn’t have released if we had that. None of our testers had that. So we’re not sure if something actually happened with the final upload or something, but it’s those sorts of ones that have been a bit of a surprise to us.”

“You put your heart and soul into anything, and eventually you sort of realise, no matter how hard you’ve worked, everything’s held together with duct tape. So, [Fallout: London’s] held together better than we thought, but lots of the issues that we’ve ha…

Following a takedown request issued by Nintendo, the famed physics sandbox Garry’s Mod is removing “all Nintendo related stuff” from its Steam Workshop.

“Some of you may have noticed that certain Nintendo related workshop items have recently been taken down,” Facepunch Studios said in a Steam update. “This is not a mistake, the takedowns came from Nintendo.

“Honestly, this is fair enough. This is Nintendo’s content and what they allow and don’t allow is up to them. They don’t want you playing with that stuff in Garry’s Mod—that’s their decision, we have to respect that and take down as much as we can.”

The “not a mistake” line may have been prompted in part by earlier DMCA claims against Nintendo-related mods that some Garry’s Mod players claimed were fraudulent. It’s not clear whether that was actually the case, but it seems to definitely not be the case now.

Nintendo is notoriously protective of its property, and it’s not shy about getting heavy with people it thinks are getting out of line. Earlier this year, for instance, it sued the makers of the Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu, forcing a near-immediate halt to its development (and sticking the d…

If you can’t take the heat, get out of the hellpod. It’s been 48 hours since something exciting and concerning happened in the world of Helldivers 2, so naturally, Arrowhead turned on the fire tornadoes. You’re reading that right: columns of hot death have been spotted on the aptly named Hellmire in Terminid territory.

I wouldn’t dare report on a lethal weather event I won’t run toward myself, so I set course for Hellmire to meet these spicy twisters in person, and try out the new guns in the “Cutting Edge” premium warbond. It’s the first post-launch warbond added to the game, and it’s similar in size to the Steeled Veterans bond—three pages consisting of four weapons, three armor sets, and a handful of other goodies for $10 worth of Super Credits. I banked a modest pile of medals for the occasion to immediately unlock a gun on the first page I’ve been eyeing for a week: the LAS-16 Sickle.

The Sickle is the second laser primary weapon, sitting comfortably next to the Scythe beam rifle. Some might skip the Sickle because of its relation to the utterly underwhelming Scythe, but allow me to set you straight: the Sickle is its bigger, stronger, faster brother, and …

April is already a monster month for city builders and colony sims, and yet another city building game has just been announced, this one with a bit of a Civilization theme. The cities you grow and manage in most city builders can last for years, sometimes decades, and occasionally hundreds of years… but what about for thousands of years?

That’s your goal in Memoriapolis, a strategy city builder from French developer 5PM Studio. Beginning with a small hunting camp in ancient times you’ll eventually grow the settlement into a prosperous city, then guide it through four different historical eras over a span of 2,500 years. That’s a long time for a city to exist, and as you pass from pre-Middle Ages all the way to the Age of Enlightenment, your capital can become a blend of different architectural styles, some old and some new.

To make your city last through the centuries you’ll need to set up trade routes, manage the economy and your city’s resources, make political decisions, and keep your citizens safe and happy. You’ll also construct Wonders, which can be real historical buildings like Notre-Dame de Paris, Windsor Castle, or the Leaning Tower of Pisa. These Wo…

I recently got around to playing Pentiment, and while I won’t spoil the experience for anyone I will say, “Man. Wow. Holy cow,” as I stare off pensively into the distance. After contemplating the nature of existing for a few days, my main takeaway was that Obsidian should just give Josh Sawyer a few million dollars every five years or so, and tell him to come back when he’s done.

But what would Sawyer do if he actually found himself in that position—or more specifically, the position of having as many million dollars and as much time as he wanted? In a wide-ranging interview with Touch Arcade he said he probably wouldn’t make Pentiment 2, but he would make Pillars of Eternity 3—as long as someone was really ready to back up the money truck.

“I don’t think I would make Pentiment 2,” Sawyer said. “I really do feel very satisfied with that game. It’s not like I don’t wanna return to it ever, but I just did it, so I’d probably wait a little bit.

“I think if it truly was an unlimited budget, I think I would try Pillars 3 because I know what the budget was for [Pillars of Eternity 2:] Deadfire, which was not a whole lot and I have …