Month: September 2024

Here’s your big surprise for the day: During the Warner Bros. Discovery Q4 financial call today, CEO David Zaslav revealed that Mortal Kombat 12 is on the way, and might even be out this year.

The completely unexpected reveal came as Zaslav gushed over the success of Hogwarts Legacy, which Warner said sold more than 12 million copies in just two weeks, generating $850 million in revenues.

“And there’s lot more to come, including the highly anticipated Mortal Kombat 12 and Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, games also set for release this year, with ambitious launch projections,” Zaslav said.

Mortal Kombat 12 was teased in January 2022, but as far as I know this is the first mention of the game in official channels. Assuming it’s being developed by Netherrealm, the…

Discord’s experimental new Clips feature, which has been rolling out since last year, lets users who are streaming in a voice channel capture up to two-minute-long clips of their streams. It’s a nice little feature addition that has accidentally become mildly controversial.

The fear is privacy. On social media, some posters have sounded the alarm over Clips’ ability to record the voices of the other users in a channel aside from the streamer, urging their followers to opt out in Discord’s settings—there’s a toggle which omits your voice from Clips. Multiple Facebook posts I’ve seen declare that Discord now records your voice without your knowledge, and one said they couldn’t think of any legitimate use for the feature.

Actually, Discord clearly notifies the users in a …

Newegg, one of our go-to online retailers for acquiring PC components, has decided to integrate ChatGPT into several of its online features. Not only has it gone into the company’s customer service chatbot, and into optimising search, but we’re now seeing ChatGPT being used as an official AI PC building tool. 

I was over here preparing to redact my position that you shouldn’t trust an AI with vital PC building questions, but I’m not so sure I can stretch to a full backtrack just yet.

According to the press release, this newfangled AI PC build generator “helps customers discover compatible parts so they can build a desktop PC system with their preferred specifications and budget.”

Alrighty, we thought. Let’s put it to the test. It seems our jobs as tech journalists…

Earlier this year, spooky-cute roguelite Cult of the Lamb got a free expansion called Relics of the Old Faith adding more to do after defeating the final boss, a heavy attack for each weapon type, relics to collect, extra challenge modes, shielded enemies, and more. Developers Massive Monster said it wasn’t the end, however, with another update still to come.

Now the studio has announced the update’s name and release window. It’s called Sins of the Flesh, and, as the official Twitter account tweeted, “Coming very early next year, this update is packed with new features, stories, and more!” 

Seeing that the official art depicts cultists wearing nothing beyond carefully placed leaves like they’re in the Garden of Eden or Baldur’s Gate 3 with the nudity toggled off, player…

It’s a display tech kind of day, so let’s round things out with our third monitor-related missive, this time involving Samsung’s new megascreen the Odyssey Neo G9 G95NC.

Samsung is showing the display off at the Gamescom in Germany and it’s an absolute monster measuring 57 inches diagonally and sporting dual-4K native resolution. Samsung mentioned the screen in passing back at CES, but now you can actually order the thing, in some territories at least.

That dual-4K res makes for a pixel density of 140DPI and thus what we are talking about here is a pair of 32-inch 4K panels fused together. That’s 7,680 by 2,160 pixels. Ouch. You’ll be wanting a fairly hefty GPU, then.

That’s especially true if you want to get anywhere near the panel’s 240Hz refresh rate in modern games…

It looks like The Elder Scrolls 6 won’t be releasing until 2026 at the very earliest, and our PlayStation pals are likely going to be missing out entirely.

That’s according to documents that have emerged from the ongoing case between Microsoft and the Federal Trade Commission over the former’s attempt to acquire Activision Blizzard, which have been shared by The Verge. It looks to be a presentation, with the slide in question being titled “Microsoft’s approach following acquisitions since 2018”. It includes a handful of Bethesda’s games that have been released since 2014, their available platforms and quotes pulled from various interviews regarding exclusivity.

The entry for The Elder Scrolls 6 has its release date as “TBC, but expected 2026 or later,” and the entry for avai…