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Mar 23, 2026

Adding to the recent controversy surrounding Intel Arc GPU support—or lack thereof—in Crimson Desert, gamers recently flagged a very peculiar in-game painting, among other assets, as evidence of use of generative AI in the game. The image depicted a battlefield filled with cavalry, but many of the soldiers and their horses were blended into one another, and there were general inconsistencies in the image that stood out as being AI-generated. Despite the almost obvious use of generative AI, Pearl Abyss did not use Steam’s generative AI disclosure on the Crimson Desert store page. Now, three days after the AI-generated in-game art was discovered, Pearl Abyss has issued a statement, via the @CrimsonDesert_ account on X, acknowledging that it was AI-generated but also claiming that the artwork was not meant to make it into the final game.

Mar 23, 2026

AMD has released its official FSR Software Development Kit version 2.2, which includes the latest set of FSR technologies. This release features FSR Upscaling 4.1 and Ray Regeneration 1.1, showcased late last week as part of the Adrenalin Edition 26.3.1 WHQL driver. The updated FSR “Redstone” SDK v2.2 introduces a much improved FSR 4.1 upscaling technology for the RDNA 4 family of graphics cards. The transition from FSR 4.0 to FSR 4.1 demonstrates that the latest version provides much finer details of game scenery, especially when objects are in motion. In the Crimson Desert game demo, grass moved by the wind appears much more detailed with FSR 4.1 compared to FSR 4.0, which previously applied a somewhat blurry effect to the grass. This improvement brings the visuals closer to native rendering.

Mar 23, 2026

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Mar 23, 2026

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Mar 23, 2026

Demo DX11 video is just the start of this graphics chip maker’s freshly inked long term roadmap embracing PCs.

Mar 23, 2026

Square Enix previously revealed that it would be leaning into generative AI tech for coding and bug fixing, aiming to rely on the tech for as much as 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027. It seems as though the game publisher is experimenting with AI in a much more public way, according to a new report by The Sankei Shimbun. The Japanese publication reports that Square Enix announced a new AI integration into the Japan-exclusive Dragon Quest X MMORPG, which will take the form of a ball of slime—appropriately named Chatty Slimey—in order to help players feel less lonely and guide them through the start of the game.

Mar 23, 2026

A $25 IPS panel gives this old Lenovo laptop a decisive visual upgrade

Mar 23, 2026

More and more game studios are leaning into generative AI as a solution to speed up their game development workflows, with some using the tech in early development—as was supposedly the case with Crimson Desert recently—while others openly use generative AI for final game content. Capcom recently revealed in an investor briefing that it falls into the former camp, not the latter, claiming that the studio uses generative AI for in-game content, but that is experimenting with the tech in order to find ways to use it in a variety of fields in order to speed up game development.

Mar 23, 2026

Awarding US spy-tech company deal involving sensitive financial data is ‘huge error of judgment’, Liberal Democrats say

Mar 23, 2026

The heated race to achieve the extreme cold that quantum technologies demand may have a frontrunner. Chinese scientists have developed an alloy that almost reaches absolute zero, the coldest possible temperature, without using the scarce isotope, helium-3.

Mar 23, 2026

The Inmo Go 3 has a camera cover that speaks volumes about smart glasses right now.

Mar 23, 2026

We take an in-depth look at AMD’s 2026 and 2027 roadmaps.

Mar 23, 2026

Biden-era punishment tossed; Intuit now has more friendly regulators under Trump. Case file: cdn.arstechnica.net/…/intuit-5th-circuit-ruling.p…

Mar 23, 2026

A notice on the popular paywall-bypass website Archive.today said that access is blocked “by decision of public authorities.” Archived version: archive.is/…/russian-authorities-block-paywall-re…

Mar 23, 2026

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Lex Fridman in a Monday podcast interview that he believed AGI had been achieved, then seemed to slightly walk back the claim. Archived version: archive.is/…/jensen-huang-nvidia-agi

Mar 23, 2026

A ViVeTool workaround still works for now.

Mar 23, 2026

SpaceMolt is a new destination for vaguely portentous word salad.

Mar 23, 2026

The Trump administration will pay $1 billion to a French company to walk away from two U.S. offshore wind leases as the administration ramps up its campaign against offshore wind and other renewable energy. Archived version: archive.is/…/trump-totalenergies-offshore-wind-le… Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Mar 23, 2026

Leaked “DarkSword” exploits published to GitHub allow hackers and cybercriminals to target iPhone users running old versions of iOS with spyware, according to cybersecurity researchers.

Mar 23, 2026

There’s been quite the din about DLSS 5 since NVIDIA previewed the AI-powered tech mid-March, with some gamers calling it “AI slop,” NVIDIA’s CEO firing back a dismissive response, and an official NVIDIA statement that seems to call into question many of the earlier claims NVIDIA made about the technology’s capabilities. Now, Chloe Appleby, a program curator at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum, has weighed in on the issue in an interview with GadgetGuy, expressing concerns about the implications about the repeatability and state of a game when DLSS 5 comes into play.