Month: October 2024
Steam now says the ‘game’ you’re buying is really just a license
Valve is now explicitly disclosing that you don’t own the games you buy from its Steam online store. The company has added a note on the payment checkout screen stating that “a purchase of a digital product grants a license for the product on Steam,” as reported earlier by Engadget.…
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Ghost in the Shell’s rad PS1 soundtrack is finally coming to the West
The soundtrack to the spider-bot-crawling 1997 Ghost in the Shell game adaptation is coming to the West for the first time. Titled Ghost in the Shell: Megatech Body (as an ode to the Fuchikoma mech you pilot in the game), the soundtrack was produced by Takkyu Ishino. It’s available to…
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Intel’s already working on its 3rd-gen Celestial GPUs – but we’re still waiting for discrete 2nd-gen Battlemage graphics cards
Intel is already working on support for its Xe3 GPU architecture in Linux – even though Xe3, codenamed Celestial, won’t be used in any chips until late in 2025 (at the earliest) Indeed, Battlemage, Intel’s 2nd-gen Arc graphics, is only just here (in Lunar Lake laptops as the integrated GPU),…
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Amazon’s new AI guides know what you want to buy before you do
Amazon is infusing AI into a new facet of its online shopping experience with the release of its AI Shopping Guides. The new feature aims to take over the product research part of hunting for a product by employing generative AI models that make personalized companions for your search. You…
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Xbox Cloud Gaming will let you stream your own games in November
Microsoft is planning to support the streaming of Xbox game libraries next month. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell The Verge that the company is getting ready to test the ability to stream games that you own that aren’t part of the existing Xbox Game Pass library. As part of…
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Planning on updating to Windows 11 24H2? You might want to grab a snack, as Microsoft admits it could take a very long time
Windows 11 24H2 has got off to a somewhat wobbly start – with a number of bugs being discovered, though thankfully, there are no huge blunders (yet) – but one thing to be aware of is that the upgrade can take a pretty long time to install. There’s an official…
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