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In the first of a new series of “campfire chats” about ongoing support for Diablo 4, a group of senior Blizzard developers outlined changes coming to the action RPG’s endgame—for the few who have reached it already, that is.

“First off, the significant majority of our players haven’t finished the game yet,” explained Diablo 4 game director Joe Shely. “But many of the people who are watching this stream, and our dedicated players, play through content much more quickly and have been experiencing this situation with the dungeons.”

The “situation with the dungeons” is that Diablo 4’s normal side dungeons currently make for more attractive endgame grinding spots than the Nightmare dungeons specifically intended to serve as, well, endgame grinding spots. Blizz want…

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There’s been an argument raging in Destiny 2 lore communities for years, ever since Bungie revealed the Witness—the big bad that’s been working behind the scenes throughout the game’s Light and Darkness saga—at the end of The Witch Queen campaign. The question, fiercely debated, is this: Is the Witness the same entity as the Winnower, the cosmic force described back in the Shadowkeep expansion lore book Unveiling?

OK, yes, let me back up. Unveiling was arguably the first major attempt by Bungie to lay out the stakes of the Destiny 2 universe’s broader cosmology—the start of a path that leads directly to the conflict of the game’s next expansion, The Final Shape. It describes two entities from before time, a Gardener and a Winnower, who played a game that caused a…

Buried inside League of Legends’ most recent developer update is a big, very interesting change for the venerable moba: Riot’s going to retool and reinvest development time in making bots much better at actually playing League of Legends in the way it’s, you know, played by actual League players.

In short: Co-op vs. AI will get a big overhaul with the goal of making it look more like a normal League of Legends match. The big goals are that bots will do stuff like jungle, gank, and take down dragons. There’ll be overall AI for a team of bots, not just the individuals, so they can work cohesively. The last big goal is that bots will be able to react to, and learn from, shifts in the metagame.

In a long blog post by technical product lead Darcy Ludington and bot team tech lead …

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Even the smartest of boffins can trip up sometimes, and that’s exactly what happened after a member of Microsoft’s AI research team accidentally exposed 38TB of sensitive internal data after misconfiguring a link.

Wiz, a cloud security company that routinely looks for vulnerabilities or exposures of cloud-hosted data detailed the exposure on its blog (via ITWire). It found a GitHub repository belonging to Microsoft’s AI research division, hosting open-source code and AI models for image recognition. But that’s not all Wiz found.

A configuration error allowed anyone access the entire storage account, and this data included two complete PC backups belonging to Microsoft employees. According to Wiz, the data included “sensitive personal data, including passwords to Micros…

Have today’s Connections game sorted out in an instant with our help. There’s a hint for every colour waiting below if you’d like a guided nudge towards the answers, as well as the full solution for the September 19 (#100) game laid bare if you need it.

For some strange reason I struggled with the easiest set today, which is especially embarrassing when, well, you’ll see. Blues? Purples? No problem. Those yellows though? May as well have been invisible until the very end. Hopefully I’ll spot them a little earlier tomorrow.

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After seven years in the works, solo-developed roguelike Patch Quest has released its final version, a massive roguelike where your explorer uses their powerful lasso to capture and tame any of the many monsters that inhabit a huge labyrinth. It’s pretty much what would happen if you combined Pokemon with The Binding of Isaac, a simply to play yet wildly diverse set of attacks and movement mechanics ranging from gliding, leaping, and surfing to tunneling and spider-man-esque webslinging.

It definitely retains that Isaac DNA, however, becoming ever more of a bullet hell about dodging enemy attacks as you get deeper into the game. The roguelike quilted terrain of Patchlantis also rearranges itself every night, so if you’re defeated and sent back to base camp you’ll have to explore a…

I have three monitors on my desk. It’s ridiculous. It’s also extremely useful, which is why I put up with it, but sometimes I think, what if I could corral all these wires and mounts and buttons into one? And then I see that Newegg has Samsung’s excellent 34″ Odyssey G5 curved gaming monitor on for less than $300 at Newegg for Black Friday, and I think, that might just be the way to go.

Yes, it’s only one penny under $300, but “technically correct” is my favorite kind of correct, and even if you want to round it up to a flat $300, that’s still a really good deal—we were impressed when it dipped under $400 back in March.

So what do you get for the money? Size is obviously the big hook: At 34 inches, the Odyssey G5 offers a lot of real estate to play with, at 3440 x 1440…