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Modern Warfare 4 Developers Address Need for Balance in Call of Duty
The developers of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 have discussed how they are working to keep multiplayer balanced ahead of the game’s beta, saying the average player has improved significantly since the franchise’s earlier instalments. Speaking to IGN, multiplayer design lead Jacky Reynolds said the team plays extensively together internally to spot and close…
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CoD: Modern Warfare 4 Aims For Fast And Fluid Movement, But A Classic Mode Isn’t Off The Table
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4’s first beta session arrives this weekend, and GameSpot was able to speak with Infinity Ward’s studio multiplayer creative director Geoff Smith and technical designer Jack Hoppus. The developers provided insight on the advancements to movement and what to expect from the beta, and also discussed the possibility of a…
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Is Vine back? Short-form video-sharing app Divine opens to public
A new short-form video app called Divine has launched to the public, positioning itself as a spiritual successor to Vine, the once-hugely popular six-second looping video platform shut down by Twitter in 2017. Founded by former Twitter employee Evan Henshaw-Plath and backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, the app aims to offer an alternative to…
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Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router
Ramp, the corporate expense management platform, has launched an AI model routing service called Router, which allows users and businesses to access and switch between multiple large language models through a single API. The move follows Stripe’s reported plan to acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter, and positions Ramp to profit from the booming AI inference…
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Microsoft gives Task Manager another task: Watching AI workloads
Microsoft has updated Windows Task Manager to display per-process activity for neural processing units (NPUs) and GPU neural engines, allowing users to see which AI workloads are consuming which hardware resources. The addition reflects the growing prevalence of AI processing on Windows devices and gives developers and power users a familiar interface to diagnose performance…
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Miyazaki hints at FromSoftware’s return to single-player games
FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki has indicated that the studio wants to return to single-player games once its current multiplayer projects, Elden Ring: Nightreign and The Duskbloods, are behind it. Speaking to IGN, he explained that both titles turning out to be multiplayer-focused was coincidental rather than a deliberate strategic pivot, though he acknowledged that prolonged…
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Live updates: Cook Political Report shifts Texas, Iowa Senate races; Bessent downplays $40T debt
The nonpartisan Cook Political Report moved both the Texas and Iowa Senate races from “lean Republican” to “toss up,” a major shift for the deep-red states with less than three months until the midterm elections. Elsewhere, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday that the U.S. can “grow our way out” of the national debt, which…
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Suge Knight gang associate erupts on stand in Tupac murder trial as he sensationally claims he wouldn’t ‘send’ alleged killer ‘to prison’: Live updates
A gang associate linked to Suge Knight became emotional and combative while testifying in the ongoing Las Vegas trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, who is accused of orchestrating the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. During heated exchanges on the stand, the witness reportedly declared he would not want to see the alleged killer…