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AI & Compute
6 dispatches on AI & Compute.
Elden Ring Tarnished Edition Comes to Switch 2 on August 28 — Redemption Arc Included
Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition lands on Nintendo Switch 2 on August 28 with Shadow of the Erdtree bundled in. Here's what happened between the Gamescom disaster and launch day.
Google's Flash Tier Is Now a Price Weapon
Gemini 3.6 Flash launched with improved token efficiency and aggressive pricing — while Gemini 3.5 Pro sits delayed for the third time. The inference cost race is the real story.
Fewer Tokens, Lower Price, Ships Now: Google's New Inference Playbook
Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash launched with a 17% output token reduction and a price cut on outputs. It signals that the real AI model competition has moved from headline benchmarks to cost per task.
Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game Launches Today — A Franchise-Wide Brawler Built to Actually Compete
Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game launches July 23 with a 12-character roster spanning both animated series, hand-drawn 2D animation, proprietary rollback netcode, and full cross-play. Here's what the discourse says about whether it can compete in a stacked fighter market.
Games Workshop Said No AI. Then a Space Marine Grew an Extra Finger.
When GW's explicit AI policy met six-fingered box art, the gap between corporate rhetoric and enforcement became impossible to ignore—and the community noticed immediately.
Sega's Crazy Taxi AI Disclosure Is Transparency Theater, Not Transparency
Sega disclosed generative AI use in Crazy Taxi: World Tour, then walked it back with assurances that 'everything is made by an actual human.' The sequence reveals how studios are learning to manage AI backlash through PR, not substantive answers.