Civilization VII ultimate starter guide: 17 tips and tricks for beginners and veterans alike

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works. Here are some tips and tricks involving geography and positioning I picked up during my time with the game. Smaller rivers are better than nothing. I’ve won a few games of Civ 7, and Confucius is great for a science path. Bonus tip: Watch for Discovery Tiles that offer early bonuses. They have a shimmering effect and some unique artwork on them....

February 7, 2025 · 7 min · 1344 words · Johnny Tyler

Forget DeepSeek: Researchers develop a $50 OpenAI competitor in less than 30 minutes that thinks harder when you ask it to "wait"

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works. The researchers managed to achieve this milestone by distilling information from proprietary larger AI models. Distillation is the process where a small AI model extracts information from larger AI models. s1 AI reasoning model. s1’s training process took less than 30 minutes using 16 NVIDIA H100 GPUs. The model is based on Qwen2.5, an open-source Alibaba AI model....

February 7, 2025 · 1 min · 112 words · Shawn Williams

Google's Gemini 2.0 rolls out to everyone to compete with OpenAI, Microsoft, and DeepSeek

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works. Google just expanded the availability of Gemini 2.0, bringing more competition to OpenAI, Microsoft, and DeepSeek. The rollout also gives developers more tools to choose from at a range of price points and computing requirements. Google’s various Gemini 2.0 models compete with tech from DeepSeek and OpenAI. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is also in public preview in Google Ai Studio and Vertex AI now....

February 7, 2025 · 2 min · 220 words · Joseph Collins

Highly anticipated Sega 2025 game is cancelled entirely because it simply won't be ready in time

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works. Check out the full announcement post on X below. At least in this case, it isn’t related to lay-offs or studio closures. There won’t be a 2025 release of one of the most popular sports games every year. This is a HUGE franchise, though, and to make a decision like this is enormous....

February 7, 2025 · 1 min · 121 words · Thomas Chavez

Kuromi got Razer's best collaboration yet, but these aren't the PC gaming accessories I'd use

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works. Now, Razer has dropped a new collection centered around the greatest character from the Hello Kitty universe. There’s some really cool stuff here for fans and collectors… If you know me, you know that black and purple are my dream color combo. But none of this gear is anything I actually want to add to my setup....

February 7, 2025 · 3 min · 574 words · Charles Lynch

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 gets first big patch on PC as "Mixed" player reviews pour in

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works. Venom and Spider-Man face off in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.

February 7, 2025 · 1 min · 26 words · Cheyenne Gomez

Meta CTO reportedly predicted DeepSeek AI six months ago: "They've probably done a lot of distilling against existing models."

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works. Chinese AI startupDeepSeekhit the tech world by storm after achieving the seemingly impossible. We were tracking DeepSeek when it launched like a month before it then became this major news item. Andrew Bosworth, CTO of Meta Platforms Inc. DeepSeek’s launch is a big deal because it’s a great open-source innovation. They’ve done some really truly great and novel work in memory architectures for model building....

February 7, 2025 · 1 min · 142 words · Nancy Gibson

Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls are about to get better in your web browser

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works. Microsoft has already implemented a prototype of an explainer on the topic to Chromium. Microsoft’s idea would also make it possible for browsers to prioritize call notifications over other types of notifications. Microsoft Teams and other web apps that support calling could soon feature an improved type of notification. They also lack buttons for actions such as answering a call....

February 7, 2025 · 1 min · 101 words · Robert Smith

Monster Hunter Wilds open beta test is live with over 225,000 concurrent Steam players in less than 24 hours

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works. Who can blame them? However, there are important details you’re gonna wanna know before jumping in. Hunt down the mysterious “White Wraith”, Arkveld, in Monster Hunter Wilds. Watch out for the poisonous spit and blinding lights of Gypceros.

February 7, 2025 · 1 min · 55 words · Tanya Russell

RTX 5070 Ti with an OLED display? Acer’s new gaming laptops might be a solution to NVIDIA’s GPU scarcity.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works. Yes, that means that alongside the fresh NVIDIA hardware are Intel’s latestArrow Lake-HX mobile CPUs. Together, this combination should deliver some impressive performance in gaming and AI tasks. A look at the new Predator Helios Neo 16 AI gaming laptop from Acer. EMEA regions will have to wait until May when it’ll launch starting at 1,699....

February 7, 2025 · 2 min · 242 words · Julie Hansen

The CDKeys 2024 Game Awards: Who's winning and more importantly, what's discounted for us?

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works. For some inexplicable reason they have waited until now to run their own Game Awards 2024. What is going on over there CDKeys? The magnificent and addictive Balatro takes the crown. Transitioning from a single-player horror experience to a multiplayer one, this good, is a monumental achievement. For that,The Outlast Trialsgets my vote....

February 7, 2025 · 2 min · 251 words · Angela Harris

This is GameSir's best-looking controller—and this discount gets you the charging stand for free

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works. GameSir has been dominating the budget market by delivering cutting-edge tech cheaper than any other brand. If you’re mainly a PC gamer, read on. The Cyclone 2 has a semi-transparent casing, and TMR sticks which are an upgrade to Hall Effect. Normally, the controller retails for $50 alone or $55 with the charging dock....

February 7, 2025 · 1 min · 170 words · Nathan Wright

This Xbox analysis chart shows how only 7% of games launched with "Play Anywhere" support in 2024 — a decline year-over-year

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works. The problem is that sovery fewhigh-quality games actually support this functionality. The chart is a bit of an indictment for how the feature is going so far. The bigger titles like Monster Hunter Wilds or Resident Evil 8 are nowhere to be seen. Judging byXbox’s hardware declines year-over-year, it seems they’re listening. Could it be that Xbox Play Anywhere becomes obsolete when the developer environment is simply “Windows” next-gen?...

February 7, 2025 · 1 min · 101 words · Lisa Valdez