Crystal Dynamics Uses GenAI Tools with Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis to “Get the Right Answers Faster”

Last week, shortly after Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis appeared in the State of Play showcase, when the game's Steam page went live, players quickly noticed the page included a Generative AI (GenAI) use disclosure . Since then, we've been trying to get more clarity from developer Crystal Dynamics on how the studio uses GenAI, and experience director Jeff Adams has somewhat clarified its use, identifying GenAI as a " tool ," one that helps the team " get the right answers faster. "

Adams

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Valor Mortis Begins the September 2026 Exodus: Developer One More Level Delays its Release Date to October 2026

In a totally unpredictable turn of events (sarcasm), one of the many games that was set to arrive in September 2026 will now try to avoid what has quickly become the most stacked month of the year and launch in October 2026 instead. Valor Mortis , the first-person melee action game from Ghostrunner makers One More Level , has pushed the game's release date from September 24 to October 13, 2026 .

The September date was revealed during the Xbox

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AWS Graviton5 CPUs Now Available: Purpose-Built For AI With 25% Performance Uplift, 192 Cores, DDR5-8800 & PCIe Gen6 Support

Amazon says that its AWS Graviton5 is the fastest and most efficient CPU it has ever built and is now generally available for AI and other use cases.

Today marks the official "General" availability of AWS's next big chip, the Graviton5 CPU. The chip is said to be much faster than the existing generation of AWS CPUs , and also expand their capabilities with the latest IO features.

  • Graviton (2018): Amazon launched its first custom cloud processor, proving that the energy-efficient
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Apple’s Next Aluminum Breakthrough Could Turn CNC Machining Waste Back Into iPhone And MacBook Neo Frames At Temperatures As Low As 125 Degree Celsius

Apple is gradually accumulating a legendary portfolio of patents related to material sciences , with a recent patent filing describing a cheaper, more efficient process to recover pure aluminum from its scrapped alloy state.

Traditional methods of recovering pure aluminum from its alloys, such as the Hoopes process, are generally energy- and capital-intensive, diminishing the underlying economic rationale.

Apple, however, has now applied


God of War Laufey, Resident Evil: Veronica, and Ocarina of Time Remake are Summer Game Fest 2026’s Big Winners

Another Summer Game Fest has come and gone, though we're still feeling the ripple effects of everything that was just announced. Part of that comes in the form of looking at what resonated the most with players, and as part of a report from The Game Business, marketing analytics firm LevelUp has the answer for the games that garnered the most engagement from players and press, and none of the top-10 games are a surprise.

That's because they're all big, triple-A juggernauts

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Halo: Campaign Evolved Stumbles on Unreal Engine 5, as RTX 5090 Barely Cracks 100 FPS at 1440p Ultra

The skepticism surrounding Halo: Campaign Evolved for its ditching of the Slipspace Engine in favor of the Unreal Engine 5 for its return to PC , PlayStation 5 , and Xbox Series X|S seems to have been well-founded , as an NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPU, the best consumer GPU available , doesn't hit the high framerates one would expect at 1440p resolution .

In a new video preview shared on YouTube, content creator Jackfrags showed a preview build running on a system powered by


Alien: Isolation 2 Hands-On: The Xenomorph Snatched Me Just Steps From the Exit, and I’d Do It Again

Has it really been almost twelve years since the first Alien: Isolation ? Players were eager to take a risk on Creative Assembly , a studio that was known almost exclusively for the Total War franchise for the better part of a decade before the project’s announcement. Shifting into first-person survival horror couldn’t have been more of a shift from the English studio’s prior works, but it was something the franchise desperately needed, and the Metacritic scores were unanimously positive while admitting it wasn’t quite a


SK Hynix Races Samsung to 400+ Layer NAND, but Must Abandon Tungsten Entirely as Stacking Hits a Material Wall

SK Hynix is expected to begin mass production of its 375-Layer NAND Flash solution by the end of 2026, offering higher storage capacities.

SK Hynix and Samsung are in the race to reach the highest number of layers in the NAND Flash segment. While Samsung is aiming beyond 400-layers with dual stacking solutions going up to 1000-layers , Hynix will soon be commencing mass production on its 375-Layer NAND.

As per sources of The Elec ,

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Louis Rossmann Threatens Samsung With Lawsuit After Company Offers $330 Refund For A 4TB SSD Now Selling At $949

The popular YouTuber is threatening Samsung over the failure of not replacing his corrupted SSD, which Samsung says works fine.

Many manufacturers have been reportedly indulging in unethical practices, and while regular consumers have hardly any control over the process, popular YouTuber Louis Rossmann is taking this to the next step. Louis says that his 4 TB Samsung 990 PRO SSD started giving errors and was confirmed to be faulty after some tests. He applied for the RMA to get his SSD repaired or replaced, but the process got stuck without

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Team17 Signs Open-World Wild West Adventure Westlanders, now set to Arrive in Early Access in 2027

Publisher Team17 has just signed the open-world 19th-century wild west survival adventure game, Westlanders , and revealed that it'll now launch into early access sometime in 2027 , instead of its previously indicated 2026 release window.

After beginning its development journey with Radical Theory as its marketing partner, Team17 has picked up Westlanders to take it the rest of the way and across the finish line. It's a partnership that Ferran Punti , chief executive officer

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