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Don’t rely on Bing, ChatGPT, or Bard for vital PC building questions Some free LLMs are better for answering your pressing PC building questions than others. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Anyone who’s been on the text-to-text generation trend knows that sometimes it’s difficult to get a truthful answer out of these early AI chatbots. We’re looking to large language models (LLMs) to simplify our lives by pulling together research from all across the web, but when some AI have been caught straight up lying—even spiralling into ameltdown when confronted about their inaccuracies—it’s hard to know where to turn for authentic information....

Dwarf Fortress has now racked up 600,000 copies sold on Steam The ultra niche simulation is a big mainstream hit. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Dwarf Fortressis a huge success story on Steam. It soldnearly 500,000 copiesless than a month after it debuted on the storefront—which, for the record, happened more than 16 years after its initial standalone release—earning its two-man development team more than $7....

Dwarf Fortress’s Tarn Adams needs your help finding a very special guitar After the success of the Steam release, Tarn Adams is looking to splurge on just the right instrument. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. When I last talked to Tarn and Zach Adams, the brothers and co-creators of Dwarf Fortress were just wrapping their heads around a new reality:becoming millionaires....

Epic will share 40% of Item Shop revenues with Fortnite island creators: ‘There’s no need to design cunning monetization loops’ anymore Epic says the new payout system for Fortnite island creators is “transformative.” When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Epic Games announced at today’s State of Unreal conference at GDC that it will give 40% of the total net revenues earned from Fortnite’s Item Shop and “related real-money purchases” to eligible Fortnite content creators in what it calls “Creator Economy 2....

EVE players are in revolt over CCP’s blockchain plans—‘If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again to chase your player base away with crypto’ “Funny how much money they don’t put into the thing that made them their money.” When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. EVE Online maker CCP Gamesannounced Project Awakeningyesterday, a new game set in the EVE universe that threatens to “combine CCP’s 25 years of game design experience with the latest in blockchain technology....

Every Altar of Lilith location in Diablo 4 There are 160 statues to collect across Diablo 4’s map, so here’s where to find them. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. If you crave maximizing your characters, finding theDiablo 4Altar of Lilithstatues are the ultimate scavenger hunt, especially to buff your seasonal characters. Each one rewards someDiablo 4 renownand passes out a small glut of stat bonuses for every one of your future characters on the same realm....

From floppy disks to the crowdfunding revolution, adventure RPG pioneers Lori and Corey Cole have seen it all Talking to Quest for Glory’s creators about three decades of videogame evolution. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. The first two Quest for Glory games enjoyed the doubled-up input options of a text parser as well as a rudimentary point-and-click interface. You could right-click on a tree or a moose head to examine it, and sometimes be rewarded with a paragraph of pun-soaked description....