'The Finals' Is Using AI Voicework And It Is Bad (www.forbes.com)
As it turns out, developer Embark Studios is using AI for essentially all the voicework in The Finals.
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As it turns out, developer Embark Studios is using AI for essentially all the voicework in The Finals.
Basically it’s just supposed to “sell again”: not having you to avoid to re-buy the re-master, re-make, re-VR and… whatever Bethesda is doing with Skyrim nowadays
This week, it’s Alan Wake 2, which has released and scored an 89 on Metacritic, a tick below a 90, but a 92 if you’re looking on PC where its visuals can be maxed to their fullest.
The Ukrainian army might not have very many M39 missiles. The ones it has, it’s using carefully—firing them at the most valuable targets that also are most vulnerable to the American-made munitions....
The damage from Ukraine’s first-ever strike with American-supplied M39 missiles, targeting a pair of helicopter bases in Russian-occupied southern and eastern Ukraine, likely resulted in greater damage than even the Ukrainian defense ministry initially claimed....
There are uses of AI that are proving to be more than black and white. While voice actors, have protested their performances being fed into AI against their will, we are now seeing an example of this being done, with permission, in a very unique case.
There are uses of AI that are proving to be more than black and white. While voice actors, have protested their performances being fed into AI against their will, we are now seeing an example of this being done, with permission, in a very unique case.
A Ukrainian Officer’s Captured Russian Tank Wasn’t Working. So He Called Tech Support—In Russia. David Axe Forbes Staff I write about ships, planes, tanks, drones, missiles and satellites....
extended update service to 7 years...
Sony forcing great single player developers to make live service games for PlayStation is a huge risk.
Epic has rocked the video game industry by laying off 16% of its workforce, nearly 900 people. While layoffs and studio closures and game cancellations are all too common in the industry, this was worse than usual, given the context in which they took place.
Steve talks about the critical importance of product content and the role it plays in whether consumers abandon their shopping carts, make a purchase, or return a product. In fact, 70% of online shoppers say product content can make or break a sale.
“It lets R2D2 talk to C3P0," Keven Gambold, Droidish’s mastermind and the CEO of government contractor Unmanned Experts, explained to Forbes, recalling the iconic robot duo from Star Wars....
I haven’t played D4 in over a month. There’s a lot of work to be done before I play more than the upcoming seasonal content.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardhomonoff/2023/05/24/warner-bros-discoverys-zaslav-floats-streaming-super-bundle--can-it-happen/?sh=341a4e77391e
Just when I was giving Bungie credit for taking Destiny 2 armor out of Eververse this season and making it an earned, in-game reward, we now have a situation I’d describe as pretty baffling.
Bethesda has just published a new blog post detailing updates coming to Starfield in the short and long term, including a ton of popular requests, most of them on the technical side, initially.
When the review embargo first dropped, Starfield was sitting at something like an 88 on Xbox and an 89 on PC. Not 90+ the way I think Bethesda may have been hoping, and yet still extremely good.