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There is a speculation that the Perfect Dark reboot could show up at the Xbox Games Showcase on June 9.
According to the DirectXbox Podcast, commentator NateTheHate said: “At this point, I fully expect that we will see Perfect Dark next month, and that some of the more recent rumors may have been outdated information, perhaps […] I’ve have been hearing things this week that Perfect Dark is not in that bad of a state.”

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According to NateTheHate, Perfect Dark will be shown at Xbox Showcase in June and is NOT in development difficulties
“At this point, I fully expect that we will see Perfect Dark next month, and that some of the more recent rumors may have been outdated information,… pic.twitter.com/a2pKIMn0VN
— GPT: Game Pass Tracker (@GPTGamingNews) May 11, 2024

Jeff Grubb of Giant Bomb responded stating, “Yeah, since talking about it, I’ve heard it could show up at the Xbox Showcase as well.”

Yeah, since talking about it, I’ve heard it could show up at the Xbox Showcase as well. https://t.co/RiQjyTxFIi
— Grubb (@JeffGrubb) May 11, 2024

What is the new Perfect Dark game about?
Perfect Dark was officially revealed in late 2020 and described as a “secret agent thriller set in a near-future world.” It is supposed to be a re-imagining of one of the best-loved IPs in gaming history.

In a detailed introductory video from 2020, game director Dan Neuburger characterized the project as a franchise reinvention, stating, “There really isn’t a game out there that’s hitting that sort of blockbuster secret agent vision.” The trailer revealed that Joanna Dark will resume her role as the main character. However, no specific release date or window was provided.
Neuburger continued saying that Perfect Dark was “revolutionary” for its time, and that “it did a lot of things that other games weren’t doing.”
“It’s been so long since the first installment and sort of rethink what that could be and how we bring that into the modern era is a really interesting problem to solve,” said the director.
Studio head Darrell Gallagher said at the time that “what we really like was the idea of secret agents,” while design director Drew Murray added that the game would have elements of espionage, reconnaissance, and tricking people.
Rumors of a new Perfect Dark game have been circulating for a while, and although Xbox initially minimized the significance of a Perfect Dark Twitter account linked to a Microsoft email address, its existence sparked discussions.

I’m not sure who discovered the @fable and @PerfectDarkGame placeholders, but a Microsoft Xbox employee is following one, and the other is registered to a Microsoft email address pic.twitter.com/MagqUbPiZf
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) June 27, 2020

The Initiative, revealed at E3 2018, has recruited personnel from prominent developers like Crystal Dynamics, Bungie, and Naughty Dog, among others. According to a blog post about Perfect Dark, the studio has assembled “some of the most talented game makers from around the industry who all share a passion for storytelling, world-building and creating memorable game experiences.”
Featured image: Xbox / Microsoft
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GameStop (GME) shares soared to around 110% on Monday and were halted several times due to market volatility after the return of “Roaring Kitty” to social media.
Stock in GME spiked to its highest level in more than a year when the New York Stock Exchange opened on Monday but the catalyst for the surge happened online.
‘Roaring Kitty’, previously identified as Keith Gill, posted on X/Twitter for the first time since 2021, creating a flurry of activity on Monday.
On Sunday, he posted a meme of a gamer leaning forward as if to be taking the game seriously, following on from the chain of events three years ago when he created a similar tailspin.

pic.twitter.com/YgjVqtgcNS
— Roaring Kitty (@TheRoaringKitty) May 13, 2024

Yesterday, he followed up his meme with a series of clips from superhero titles, featuring Thanos and Wolverine, accompanied by the caption “Fine, I’ll do it myself”.
Why is GME rising?
It was this activity that propelled GameStop shares with the huge early rise being followed by a drop, balancing out up 78% toward the end of the morning session.
Gill rose to prominence for his commentary on why GameStop stock would rise and he went on to testify at Congress on the ‘short squeeze’ of January 2021 influenced by many retail traders.
The engineering of the squeeze happened when a mass squad of meme traders attempted to strike back at Wall Street and the heavyweight financial institutions which were left scrambling to recover their figures after their bets against GameStop backfired.
It was the actions of the ‘Roaring Kitty’-influenced legions which sent GME soaring in the first instance.
This whole episode was transformed onto the silver screen last year when a Hollywood production saw Gill played by Paul Dano, the main protagonist in Dumb Money.
The real-life character has kept a low profile in recent times but his return to social media over the weekend is a change of tack, attributed as the key factor in the sudden GameStop stock surge.
Image credit: Ideogram
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OpenAI has announced that it will demo updates for its new AI chatbot and GPT-4 today (May 13) but stopped short of including the launch of GPT-5 or a search engine.
Instead, CEO Sam Altman indicated there may be “some new stuff we think people will love [that] feels like magic to me.”
There had been speculation last week that OpenAI’s search app would combine the search engine capabilities of Microsoft Bing with ChatGPT to generate deeper search results with more context and additional information.

not gpt-5, not a search engine, but we’ve been hard at work on some new stuff we think people will love! feels like magic to me.
monday 10am PT. https://t.co/nqftf6lRL1
— Sam Altman (@sama) May 10, 2024

Last week, OpenAI announced on X that it will host a “Spring Updates” event on May 13 at 10am PT. The event is open to the public and can be watched live on the company’s website.
What features could OpenAI unveil for ChatGPT?
Potential updates might include an improved free chatbot, changing from the GPT-3.5 to the GPT-4 model, and introducing capabilities like DALL-E support, multimodal prompts, and footnotes, among others.
These features are currently available in ChatGPT Plus and Microsoft Copilot’s free version. There could also be insights shared about the mysterious “gpt2-chatbot,” which appeared to surpass existing large language models.
The Information reports that the company has reportedly been showcasing a new multimodal AI model that can both talk to you and recognize objects. According to the outlet, the new model offers “faster, more accurate interpretation of images and audio” compared to its existing transcription and text-to-speech models. It could potentially help customer service agents “better understand the intonation of callers’ voices or whether they’re being sarcastic.” Theoretically, the website states that it might assist students with math or help translate real-world signs.
According to sources cited by The Information, this model surpasses GPT-4 Turbo in “answering some types of questions,” though it still prone to providing incorrect responses. Developer Ananay Arora, who shared a screenshot of call-related code, suggests that OpenAI might also be preparing a new ChatGPT feature for making phone calls.

OpenAI seems to be working on having phone calls inside of chatGPT. This is probably going to be a small part of the event announced on Monday.(1/n) pic.twitter.com/KT8Hb54DwA
— Ananay (@ananayarora) May 11, 2024

Arora said he found signs that OpenAI had set up servers likely designed for real-time audio and video communication.
Featured image: Canva
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The United States and China have sent delegates to a high-level meeting in Switzerland to discuss artificial intelligence (AI) and to reduce the possibility of “unintended conflict.”
Last month, Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing with AI on the agenda, and President Joe Biden’s administration is said to have been keen to follow up on early initial dialogue after exchanges with President Xi’s team in San Francisco last November, coinciding with the 30 APEC Economic Leaders event.
The meeting tomorrow (May 14) in Geneva is set to comprise a range of issues to set clear lines of communication.  The Financial Times quoted a US official on the importance of setting parameters on rapidly evolving technology.
“Our approach on (sic) China remains focused on ‘invest, align and compete’ but we also believe intense competition requires intense diplomacy to reduce the risk of miscalculation and unintended conflict. This is particularly true in the case of AI.” 
Another report indicates Biden’s staff are alive to the “transformative potential” of AI but also wary of the “necessity of striking a balance between risk management and seizing the opportunities provided by advanced AI”.
US action to safeguard proprietary AI assets
China is thought to have prioritized AI development as a “major” focus and has already dedicated significant resources for civilian and military purposes which “we believe undermines both US and allied national security”.
The Biden administration plans to enforce guardrails on US-developed proprietary AI models that power chatbots like ChatGPT to ringfence the technology from countries like China and Russia.
The official US delegation will be made up of officials from the White House and State and Commerce Departments, according to the White House National Security Council (NSC).
Image credit: Ideogram
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Hideo Kojima‘s experimental horror game, OD (Overdose), has had some of its gameplay released, potentially giving fans an early look at how it might play upon launch.
The Xbox-published Unreal 5 game from the legendary video game designer behind the Metal Gear series, is being produced with the help of director and actor Jordan Peele and is set to star several Hollywood actors including Euphoria actress Hunter Schafer and Suspiria star Udo Kier.
According to notable source DuskGolem, the gamer was able to playtest OD. However, it is unclear when this took place, hence Kojima Productions may have changed direction in the meantime.

Just announced my new game “OD”. pic.twitter.com/U8TE9V1Ojv
— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) December 8, 2023

What to expect from Kojima’s OD
“What I remember of Overdose is the game was trying to be an experimental experience involving players using multimedia to have breakthroughs in the game. There’d be long cinematics that would lead to active and passive gameplay of two kinds, the first being where they had to use watch and ‘guide’ the characters while using information obtained from other sources, like web pages,” they said.
He mentioned using cameras throughout the facility, including a third-person following camera and a first-person camera, to improve the player’s ability to direct them. This approach is said to improve in-game interactions as well as allow players to apply elements from outside the game within it, and vice versa.
The user added: “The second gameplay element involved first-person bits aimed at the player that played more traditionally like a horror game but with a similar cryptic puzzle-mystery function and a lack of cinematics like the first part. There was a lot more written, but that’s how I’ve remembered Overdose for a very long time and just what I thought was known publicly I suppose.”

If anyone wants to read my OD / Overdose anaylsis (from a sorta’ Kojima skeptic but wanted to see what I could dig up): https://t.co/1Pqzr9duiR
Bye again.
— AestheticGamer aka Dusk Golem (@AestheticGamer1) December 8, 2023

It seems that players will control the characters similarly to other survival horror games, but it could potentially allow players to manage multiple characters at the same time. Kojima had stated earlier this year that OD will be “just as different” as Boktai: The Sun is in Your Hand.
ATAMI byu/Turik2507 inOD_Kojima

Fans have previously speculated that the fame might be a successor to iconic P.T. or the next game in the Silent Hill series.
Featured image: Xbox / Kojima Productions
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