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GenAI users Larian forced to build Divinity around RAM shortage caused by GenAI
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GenAI users Larian forced to build Divinity around RAM shortage caused by GenAI

The ongoing RAM shortage (and subsequent and pricing explosion) is imposing a wider range of grim effects than even the Great GPU Famine of 2020. First came the death of one of gaming hardware’s most reliable memory and SSD makers, and now... uh... Larian’s new Divinity game is going to be more optimised for PC than it otherwise would have been? That’s what Larian CEO Swen Vincke (clearly on a media tour – here’s him discussing Divinity with our Edwin) told TheGame

Rock Paper Shotgun 17.12.2025 17:52 Uhr
Yep, Fallout 5's world will be impacted by the happenings of the Fallout TV Show, sayeth Todd Howard
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Yep, Fallout 5's world will be impacted by the happenings of the Fallout TV Show, sayeth Todd Howard

As the second series of Amazon's Fallout TV show emerges from a hole in the ground with a cog-shaped door, Todd Howard has uttered the word Fallout and stuck a five after it. He's given a verbal thumbs up - or a reminder depending on how you look at it - to the idea of the events which play out in the TV show having an impact on the next mainline entry on the series, at least in terms of being a consideration in worldbuilding. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 17.12.2025 17:35 Uhr
Steam Replay says 2025 releases accounted for 14% of the time we've collectively spent Steamilygamening this year
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Steam Replay says 2025 releases accounted for 14% of the time we've collectively spent Steamilygamening this year

Steam Replay, Valve's yearly roundup of where all of the hours spent playing games in the Steamy place have gone, has emerged from its hidey-hole yet again. 2025's edition is out now - you've likely already seen it if you've hopped into Steam since yesterday afternoon. Amid all the bits telling you that you've spent 1000 hours playing Umamusume: Pretty Derby thus far, the annual report's dished out some fresh stats about how old the games everyone across the platform's user base has been playin

Rock Paper Shotgun 17.12.2025 16:14 Uhr
We may have glimpsed Silksong's Sea of Sorrow expansion in a six-year-old trailer
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We may have glimpsed Silksong's Sea of Sorrow expansion in a six-year-old trailer

There won’t be any prizes for correctly guessing that Hollow Knight: Silksong’s first expansion, Sea of Sorrow, will involve a) a sea and b) some kind of adverse emotion. But there is mounting evidence that the watery DLC will restore, or at be inspired by, places and bugs that developers Team Cherry had previously left on Silksong’s cutting room floor – yet had been shown in in marketing for the main game as far back as 2019. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 17.12.2025 15:26 Uhr