Here’s how to get a Diablo 4 Battle Pass for free

If you’re diving back into Diablo 4 for Season of Hatred Rising, or returning for the Vessel of Hatred expansion, you might be considering the Premium or Accelerated Battle Pass. If you’ve bought the Deluxe or Ultimate Editions of Vessel of Hatred, a Battle Pass is included with your purchase. But if you opted for the Standard edition or haven’t purchased the expansion yet and want to explore the new season, here’s a method that could help you get your upgraded Battle Passes free of charge.

Black Ops 6 to launch into NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW cloud gaming service on release day

To fully immerse yourself in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, powered by an NVIDIA RTX 4080 GPU, make sure your GeForce Now account is all set up. On their official website, NVIDIA announced that Black Ops 6 will be one of the 22 games joining the streaming service in October. Unfortunately, the Xbox Game Pass version on the Microsoft Store does not appear to be compatible with GeForce Now.

Despite new Shattered Space DLC, Starfield’s player count is neck and neck with Fallout 4 — a 9-year-old game

The Shattered Space expansion for Starfield, released on September 30 for Xbox Series X|S and Windows PC by Bethesda, is their largest contribution yet to the 2023 space exploration RPG. Although Bethesda has attempted to generate excitement about this DLC and present it as a rich, captivating roleplaying experience, the number of players indicates that it’s having difficulty attracting fans to explore it.

OpenAI ‘pleads’ for exclusive funding, raises $6.6 billion, leaving Elon Musk’s xAI and other AI firms to fend for themselves

In a recent fundraising round, OpenAI garnered $6.6 billion from Microsoft, NVIDIA, and other significant investors. However, this investment seems to come with certain conditions. Surprisingly, it’s not the investors who are imposing these restrictions, but rather OpenAI itself. The company has requested that its investors avoid investing in competing firms like Anthropic and Elon Musk’s xAI. I use quotation marks around “request” because, according to the Financial Times, OpenAI made it clear that this funding agreement includes an exclusivity clause.

A gorgeous 240Hz OLED display, AMD AI CPU, and RTX-40 GPU all work together to make an excellent gaming laptop

In the earlier part of the year, I completed a review on the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 (2024) GU605, praising its Intel Core Ultra AI processor. Recently, ASUS has unveiled an AMD Ryzen AI 9HX variant of this very same laptop, maintaining the original name but appending a GA605 model number. Since then, I’ve been eager to compare the two models, so for the past fortnight, I’ve been immersed in gaming sessions, running different benchmark tests, and using it for work purposes.