Roblox adds instant text translation using AI, plans to apply the tech to voice chat

Hypothetical real-time translation of voices would aim to match speaker’s rhythm and intonation Immensely popular sandbox gameRobloxhas added real-time text translation to its in-game chat, powered by AI. Its developers are already looking at applying the tech to other multilingual elements in the game, including voice chat that mimics the speaker’s tone and expression. The instantaneous translation of text chat is live now in all Roblox experiences that allow for TextChatService, supporting 16 different languages - including Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese, plus English - that will be automatically translated into any of the other languages when chatting with other users, in any combination of languages....

February 5, 2024 · 2 min · 387 words · Heather Castro

Screenshot Saturday Mondays: Flushing the urinal and kiting the rat ball

I go on Twitter so you don’t have to Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s#screenshotsaturdaytag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. We’re a bit short this week because of the rolling technical disaster that is modern Twitter, but I’ve still enjoyed ogling everything from a must-have immersive sim feature and a very unpleasant nighttime drive to lovely simulated water and strange spaceship shenanigans....

February 5, 2024 · 3 min · 449 words · Brandon Gardner

Tarnished Blood is Darkest Dungeon meets Monster Hunter with a fancy timeline mechanic

And there’s a demo I wouldn’t say there’s anabundanceof games in which you place actions on timelines, mind you. But those that do exist are neat, as Marge Simpson would say. TakeTarnished Blood. In Tarnished Blood - why yes, itisa dark fantasyRPG- you lead a group of intrepid human warriors who are trying to keep their settlement alive in a world filled with hideous, hand-drawn beasties twenty times their size. A snippet fromthe Steam blurb: “No atrocity is considered taboo in the world where gargantuan bloodthirsty Maultigores roam the valleys, and the deceitful Celestials control the time-space continuum....

February 5, 2024 · 2 min · 348 words · Michele Blevins

The Maw - 5th-10th February 2024

Our weekly newsblog with this week’s top videogame releases The clouds over London have settled into the shapes of loading icons. The birds are singing old Celtic ditties. There are extinct species of fern growing through the vents of my i7 12700F. All these troubling signs point to but one, dire outcome: it’s time for another week of new videogame releases, and another week of feeding videogame gossip and reportage to the Maw, our weekly news liveblog....

February 5, 2024 · 16 min · 3219 words · Veronica Boyd

This roguelike has you batter mutants with ricocheting footballs

A solid pitch I’ve never been a true “Football Enjoyer”. I’ll weirdly get into it at certain times, like when the World Cup is on and I get suckered into the belief that, “It’s actually coming home this time”. But maybe Icouldbe a football enjoyer, now that there’s a roguelike out there that combines football skills with room-clearing. I’d giveFootgun Underground’s demo at least 90 minutes of your time. The premise of Footgun Underground is simple: You’re a guy who has to clear rooms of increasingly difficult baddies, and to do so, you will be kicking a football....

February 5, 2024 · 2 min · 271 words · Lisa Barrera

Wordle hints and answer (#961): How to solve the Monday February 5 Wordle

Stuck on the Wordle word for February 5? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis an addicting but challenging test of word acumen. Luckily, you’re in the right place for some assistance. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

February 5, 2024 · 6 min · 1217 words · Stephen Williams

NYT Connections hint and answers (Sunday, February 4)

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #238 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now. It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start....

February 4, 2024 · 3 min · 557 words · Jason Caldwell

Wordle hints and answer (#960): How to solve the Sunday February 4 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for February 4? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis an addicting but challenging test of word acumen. Luckily, you’re in the right place for some assistance. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

February 4, 2024 · 6 min · 1215 words · Donald Oconnor

Final Factory is Factorio in space, with exploration and fleet combat

A demo is available now Final Factoryseems expansive as far as factory builders go, given that it features not just the sprawling bases you expect but also spaceship construction, interstellar exploration and fleet combat. On the other hand, as far as 2D, topdown space games go, it seems much more approachable than most. There’s a demo available right now. It starts off, as these games do, with you building a mining colony in space....

February 3, 2024 · 2 min · 231 words · Timothy Bennett

News Tower lets you manage a newspaper in 1930s New York, and there's a demo

Early Access launch later this month If you pay attention to industry layoffs, you’ll know the news media - media in general, really - is in a bad spot right now. I can’t remember the last time it wasn’t in a bad spot. Perhaps in the 1930’s, which is the setting forNews Tower, a newspaper management sim in which you attempt to construct your empire in New York from 1929 onwards....

February 3, 2024 · 1 min · 205 words · Jennifer Robinson

NYT Connections hint and answers (Saturday, February 3)

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #237 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now. It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start....

February 3, 2024 · 3 min · 557 words · Diane Simon

Palworld's servers have cost almost £400k/$500k to run so far

“We have prepared servers without regard to cost” Palworld’s servers have so far cost 70.53 million Japanese yen to run (around £376,276/$475,349). This is according to a tweet from Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe. “Wait, maybe they’ll go bankrupt due to server fees?” Mizobe joked. The tweet showed an image of the figure, seemingly from the backend of whatever service is providing the server hosting to Pocketpair. The number shown was from “This month”, according to a Google machine translation of the text....

February 3, 2024 · 2 min · 251 words · Kayla Boyd

Starfield is getting AMD FSR 3 support in beta sometime next week

Following DLSS 3 support added last year Starfield’s next update to appear on the Steam beta branch will add support for AMD’s FSR 3, the magic frame-boosting tech that makes games run smoother without extra strain on your hardware. It should arrive in beta next week and in a final release later this month, Bethesda say. “We’re excited to share that @AMD FSR 3 is coming to @StarfieldGame’s Steam Beta next week!...

February 3, 2024 · 2 min · 265 words · Michelle Long