Earlier this week, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick discussed the recently revealed release window for Grand Theft Auto 6 with CNBC (via VideoTechUK). Zelnick said that the timing of the release comes down to not only ensuring that the title is bug-free, but that it is also "an experience that nobody has seen before."

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Image: Comcast Get ready for yet another streaming bundle: Comcast is launching a new $15 per month subscription that combines Netflix, Apple TV Plus, and Peacock. The “StreamSaver” bundle will be available to Xfinity Internet and TV customers on May 29th — and it offers monthly savings of around $8. If you do subscribe, expect to sit through some commercials, as the bundle includes Netflix’s ad-supported plan ($6.99 / month), Peacock’s ad-supported Premium plan ($5.99 / month), and Apple TV Plus, which is ad-free by default ($9.99 / month). Variety first reported on rumors of the bundle last week. Comcast is also bundling its bundle with its $20 per month Now TV service, which offers over 40 live TV channels and comes with a Peacock Premium... Continue reading…

Image: Bandai Namco With only a month until release day, there’s a new story trailer for Shadow of the Erdtree, and the Elden Ring lore hounds have their work cut out for them. FromSoftware has been slowly teasing Shadow of the Erdtree and its story beats ever since the gameplay trailer was released back in February. All we knew then was the DLC would take place in the Land of Shadow and feature a bunch of new horrors straight from the slightly warped imagination of game director Hidetaka Miyazaki. This new Land of Shadow was connected somehow to Miquella — the dude in the egg with the withered arm. The trailer mentions him prominently, giving the impression we’ll learn more about him, his connection to the Land of Shadow, and what events led him to abandon... Continue reading…

Image: The Verge Expect a bunch of new developer tools to go along with Microsoft’s fresh Copilot Plus PCs announcement. Continue reading…

Microsoft is adding custom emoji to Teams. | Image: The Verge Microsoft is adding a new feature to its Teams communications platform that enables users to upload their own custom emoji to use in reactions and messages. Announced during its Build developer conference on Tuesday, Microsoft says the new custom emoji will be available to try next month via the Teams public preview, with the goal of helping Teams users collaborate and express themselves “more creatively and authentically.” IT admins for businesses that use Teams will have the ability to limit which users can upload or delete custom emoji, or they can turn the feature off entirely. Once custom emoji are uploaded into Teams, they’ll only be visible within the same organization domain. Microsoft says that general availability for custom... Continue reading…

Image: The Verge Microsoft Edge will soon offer real-time video translation on sites like YouTube, LinkedIn, Coursera, and more. As part of this year’s Build event, Microsoft announced that the new AI-powered feature will be able to translate spoken content through both dubbing and subtitles live as you’re watching it. So far, the feature supports the translation of Spanish into English as well as the translation of English to German, Hindi, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. In addition to offering a neat way to translate videos into a user’s native tongue, Edge’s new AI feature should also make videos more accessible to those who are deaf or hard of hearing. Edge will also support real-time translation for videos on news sites such as Reuters, CNBC, and B... Continue reading…

Illustration: The Verge Microsoft announced a new version of its small language model, Phi-3, which can look at images and tell you what’s in them. Phi-3-vision is a multimodal model — aka it can read both text and images — and is best used on mobile devices. Microsoft says Phi-3-vision, now available on preview, is a 4.2 billion parameter model (parameters refer to how complex a model is and how much of its training it understands) that can do general visual reasoning tasks like asking questions about charts or images. But Phi-3-vision is far smaller than other image-focused AI models like OpenAI’s DALL-E or Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion. Unlike those models, Phi-3-vision doesn’t generate images, but it can understand what’s in an image and analyze it for a... Continue reading…