Just days after showing off multiple games at various Summer Game Fest showcases, Sumo Group has announced that it is laying off up to 15% of its total workforce “to ensure the security of the business going forward.”

“Whilst Sumo has been able to manage through many of the recent difficulties the games industry has faced, we have not been immune and reshaping operations across the business to better navigate the upcoming challenges expected in the coming months is a path we must now take to ensure the security of the business going forward,” the company said in a statement.

“The difficult decision to reduce our costs across the business in a number of ways is a direct result of these challenges, and unfortunately will include a reduction in the number of people the business…

OpenAI is bringing us GPT-4, the next evolution of everyone’s favourite chatbot, ChatGPT. On top of a more advanced language model that “exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic tests” the new version accepts image inputs, and promises more stringent refusal behaviour to stop it from fulfilling your untoward requests.

The accompanying GPT-4 Technical Report (PDF) warns, however, that the new model still has a relatively high capacity for what the researchers are calling “hallucinations”. Which sounds totally safe.

What the researchers mean when they refer to hallucinations is that the new ChatGPT model, much like the previous version, has the tendency to “produce content that is nonsensical or untruthful in relation to certain sources.” 

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A group of seven former BioWare employees who were among the 50 laid off in August have filed a lawsuit against the company seeking better severance pay and punitive damages for what they claim is “unreasonably poor treatment by BioWare” following their termination.

Worobec Law Offices, the firm representing the former employees, said that in “most recent court cases of termination without cause,” courts in Alberta, Canada—where BioWare is based—have awarded at least one month of severance pay for every year of service with the company, including the value of all employee benefits. BioWare, according to the firm, offered “significantly less” than that amount, and refused to negotiate any kind of increase.

“In light of the numerous recent industry layoffs and the …

Give it up for the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX. Nearly nine months since the new RDNA 3 graphics architecture was announced, the RX 7900 XTX is the first example of GPU based on AMD’s latest graphics tech to appear in Valve’s survey of Steam users.

If that’s the good news for AMD, the bad is that its graphics cards make up just 8.68% of Steam gamers. Ouch. Of course, some caveats apply. For starters, that’s AMD discrete GPUs excluding integrated GPUs such as that found in the Steam Deck and AMD’s APUs.

Moreover, fully 10.69% of all GPUs, including discrete and integrated, fall into a generic “Other” category. Likely, that’s a mixed bag of unidentified graphics cards and iGPUs, plus those with such tiny market share, Valve doesn’t bother to list them.

But assuming AMD’s shar…

Let’s kick off with some terminology: Blockchain. Bitcoin. NFT. Web3 gaming. Provided your eyes haven’t rolled so far into the back of your head you’re still able to read the rest of this article, I have some terrible news for you—two new handhelds are aiming to corner the market once more on blockchain-based gaming, only this time, it’s mobile.

First up we have the SuiPlay0X1, a handheld gaming device with “native Web3 capabilities”, or at least, a pretty render of one (via Ars Technica). Announced proudly as “the world’s first blockchain native handheld games console”, the SuiPlay 0X1 is integrated with the Sui blockchain, a Layer 1 blockchain and smart contract platform.

What that means for potential buyers is handheld “Web3 gaming”, which in basic terms is…

Newegg is offering a killer deal on an RTX 4060 Ti gaming desktop with a 13th Gen Core i5 CPU for just $1,125, a staggering $900 discount from its regular $2,000 price tag. This is perfect for anyone seeking a powerful entry-level 1080p gaming rig—just in time to play that Baldur’s Gate 3 game we’re all crazy about. 

The Ipason gaming desktop boasts a Core i5 13400F, 16GB DDR RAM, 1TB NVMe SSD, and an RTX 4060 Ti. This configuration ensures solid midrange 1080p gaming performance at a budget-friendly price.

The RTX 4060 Ti is a significant upgrade over the RTX 3060 Ti, which is already considered one of the ideal midrange GPUs available at an affordable price. What sets the RTX 40-series cards apart from last-gen RTX 30-series GPUs is their ability to fully utiliz…

It had to happen at some point but Valve’s much-loved Steam Deck has been falling down its weekly revenue charts for a little while now. For the past two weeks, though, it’s dropped outside of the top ten, suggesting that competition from ASUS, Ayaneo, OneXPlayer, and Aokzoe has taken a sizeable slice of the handheld PC market.

As reported by GamingOnLinux, sales of the Steam Deck have slowed to the point where it’s no longer in Valve’s top ten for weekly revenue. That in itself isn’t particularly surprising as the majority of people who really want one will have already bought it and the rise of the Air 1S, OneXFly, and ROG Ally will also have contributed to the decrease in shipments.

What is astonishing, though, is just how long the Steam Deck has dominated the charts. Val…

Squanch Games CEO and studio director Mike Fridley has announced the first DLC for the hugely popular High on Life, an OTT cartoon shooter where the guns talk and the humour is love it or hate it. It’s set two years after the original game ends and going for something of a vibe change to horror, with the name High on Knife. 

The DLC stars Knifey, a weapon voiced by Michael Cusack, and the trailer shows off various new characters, enemies and environments: with a notable shift in atmosphere and some pretty grotesque-looking creations, fleshy and bulbous.

“[We’re] getting a little spooky this time around,” said Fridley. “Not like, “I may never sleep again,” levels of terror, but definitely on the “My dreams are going to be broken for a while,” end of things. Think body ho…

Apple made a big splash with the announcement of its first VR/AR headset, the Apple Vision Pro. The thing is, it looks like Huawei may have beat it to the name, at least in China where the company operates from.

An application for a trademark on the phrase ‘Vision Pro’ was filed back in May, 2019, MyDrivers reports. That’s just over four years before Apple’s Vision Pro broke surface at WWDC. The trademark on the term goes into effect from 2021 until 2031, and you can see the documentation for yourself on the Trademark Office for China’s database.

There’s not much to the trademark, though there rarely ever is. Say what you like about the way in which companies trademark simple words and phrases but that’s the system. In this case, the phrase “Vision Pro” has been trademarked …