In one of the most bizarre stories that happened over the weekend, three hikers who trusted Google’s Gemini AI a bit too much to give them directions and planning had to be rescued after they got lost in the wilderness. The hikers claimed that they simply followed Gemini’s instructions and plans – the AI instructed them to even carry far less food and water than they needed. The Chicago Tribune reported that the three novice hikers wanted to plan a hiking excursion on Mount Shasta in California. The Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office said they had used Google Gemini to help plan the climb, which ended up giving them pretty bad advice. Gemini recommended they pack far less food and water than required, and even gave them poor directions on their hiking trail. The group started hiking towards the summit of Mount Shasta at around 3AM on Sunday. Hikers are advised to turn around if they have not reached the summit by noon, though the group kept hiking until they reached the summit at 7PM. Probably continuing to listen to the advice of Gemini, the group descended the mountainous trail but things quickly went wrong. Instead of staying on the Clear Creek Route, the hikers walked through the dark and ended up in the isolated Mud Creek Canyon several miles away. One of the hikers had injured his knee, forcing the group to spend the night in a steep drainage before rescuers could arrive the following morning. The sheriff’s office advised hikers to always have an offline option for navigation, and call into the US Forest Service ranger station before attempting the climb. They also warned not to solely rely on AI for trip planning, which should be a cautionary tale for anyone who thinks Gemini or any AI chatbot knows better. Source: Chicago Tribune Original article on GLITCHED

NVIDIA plans to officially roll out its new DLSS 5 technology this week after it leaked a few days ago and has essentially taken over the internet. The company says the latest DLSS 5 tech aims to push real-time graphics closer to photorealism by using an AI-generated filter that enhances game visuals. NVIDIA calls this new technology 3D-guided neural rendering technology. However, by the look of things, users have been able to create the same experience using all sorts of games and content by just applying DLSS 5 as a filter to whatever they are doing. Regardless, the official rollout of DLSS 5 is expected to take place tomorrow, 3 September at around 9pm PT, which would be 6am South African time on 4 September. The tech will be available for RTX 50 Series GPUs across the board in desktops and notebooks, but the feature comes at a heavy cost of resources. NVIDIA shows that enabling DLSS 5 in some cases could essentially halve your frame rate in games in order to get the tech up and running. However, NVIDIA has improved the feature since it was originally announced. When it made its controversial debut earlier this year, NVIDIA was running the tech on two RTX 5090 GPUs. The same results are now possible on an RTX 5060. DLSS 5 basically analyzes the rendered frame from a video game and scans for information such as motion vectors, textures, and models. It then uses a neural model to understand what is happening in the frame and how the in-game content is being compiled together to create the render. NVIDIA says the artist’s content then remains intact as DLSS 5 isn’t changing the way the game was made but rather just enhancing what is already there. Of course, the tech has had its fair share of backlash since its announcement in March, and even more so after this release date news. Gamers are upset that the “official” version of this tech isn’t available outside of the RTX 50 Series GPUs even though the leaked version was running just fine on earlier graphics cards. Gamers are also worried about the drastically different visuals in some examples. NVIDIA explains it all in a long video below. Original article on GLITCHED Written by Marco Cocomello

Yesterday, Xbox officially kicked off its disc-to-digital feature for Insiders, allowing players to convert their physical game discs to digital licenses that can be enjoyed on different platforms tied to the same account. So far, it’s garnered extremely positive impressions from the gaming community, with many discovering that the disc-to-digital feature even worked on games that had been delisted, such as Deadpool. While more Insiders test the new feature, there’s now a pretty massive list of every Xbox disc-to-digtal game that works so far. The following list was originally compiled by X user Idle Sloth, who so far added 174 titles that are confirmed to work with Xbox’s disc-to-digital program (though more will be added once verified). Testing is still ongoing and many have discovered that all the Forza Horizon and Forza Motorsport games unfortunately don’t work yet, but Xbox may add support for them in a later update. This includes the recently released Forza Horizon 6 which hasn’t been verified. Here’s every game that’s basically confirmed to work with Xbox’s disc-to-digital feature so far: 007 First Light Adventure Time: Finn and Jake Investigations Airoheart Alan Wake 2 Alien: Isolation Aliens: Fireteam Elite Among Us Anthem Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration Attack on Titan Back to the Future: The Game – 30th Anniversary Edition Battleborn Closed Technical Test Battlefield 1 Battlefield 4 Battlefield 2042 Battlefield Hardline Battlefield V Battlefield 6 Biomutant BioShock: Remastered Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Borderlands 2 Borderlands 3 Borderlands 4 Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Call of Duty: Black Ops III Call of Duty: Ghosts Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III Call of Duty: Vanguard Cars 3: Driven To Win CHAOS;CHILD Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Control Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time Cyberpunk 2077 Darksiders: Warmastered Edition Dead Island 2 Dead Rising 4 (W10) Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster Deadpool Destroy All Humans! Destroy All Humans! 2 – Reprobed Devil May Cry 5 Disco Elysium Dishonored 2 Disney Classic Games: Aladdin and The Lion King Disney Infinity 3.0 Divinity: Original Sin 2 – Definitive Edition DOOM Dragon Age: Inquisition Dying Light Dying Light 2: Stay Human – Reloaded Edition EA SPORTS College Football 25 Exoprimal F1 2016 F1 2017 F1 2018 F1 2019 F1 2020 F1 2021 FATAL FRAME II: Crimson Butterfly REMAKE Gears 5 • Gears of War: Ultimate Edition Gotham Knights Grand Theft Auto V (Japan) Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy Gungrave G.O.R.E Hades Halo 5: Guardians Halo: Campaign Evolved Halo: The Master Chief Collection Hogan Hogwarts Legacy Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Jurassic World Evolution L.A. Noire LEGO 2K Drive LEGO Dimensions LEGO Harry Potter Collection LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens Looney Tunes: Wacky World of Sports LUNAR Remastered Collection Mad Max Madden NFL 23 Mafia: The Old Country Marvel’s Midnight Suns Mass Effect: Andromeda Metal Gear Solid – Master Collection Version Metal Gear Survive Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor Middle-Earth: Shadow of War MindsEye Minecraft Story Mode Minecraft: Story Mode Minecraft: Xbox One Edition Miraculous: Rise of the Phoenix Mirror’s Edge Catalyst MLB The Show 21 Monster Energy Supercross – The Official Videogame 4 Monster Hunter Wilds Mortal Kombat 1 Mortal Kombat 11 NHL 17 NHL 21 No More Heroes 3 ONRUSH Overcooked! All You Can Eat PAYDAY 2 PAYDAY 3 Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Project Cars Psychonauts RAGE 2 Rare Replay Red Dead Redemption 2 Remothered: Broken Porcelain Resident Evil 3 Resident Evil 4 (2023) Resident Evil 5 Resident Evil 6 Resident Evil 7: Biohazard Resident Evil: Requiem Resident Evil: Village Rock Band 4 Saints Row IV: Re-Elected Saints Row: The Third – Remastered Sea of Thieves Sid Meier’s Civilization VII Skylanders Imaginators Skylanders SuperChargers Portal Owner’s Pack SNIPER Ghost Warrior 3 SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide Spyro Reignited Trilogy Starfield Star Wars: Battlefront Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor Steven Universe + OK K.O.! Let’s Play Heroes STORY OF SEASONS: A Wonderful Life Street Fighter 6 Suikoden I & II HD Remaster Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars Sunset Overdrive SUPER BOMBERMAN R 2 System Shock • The Callisto Protocol The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim The Elder Scrolls Online The Evil Within The Evil Within 2 The Outer Worlds The Quarry The Sims 4 The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Titanfall 2 Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 Tower of Guns: Special Edition TRANSFORMERS: BATTLEGROUNDS Transformers: Devastation Vampyr • Wanted: Dead Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Wolfenstein: The New Order Wolfenstein: Youngblood WWE 2K19 WWE 2K23 WWE 2K24 XCOM 2 Source: Idle Sloth

PlayStation users in the US may be eligible for a cut of nearly $8 million soon in the wake of a class-action lawsuit settlement. The lawsuit, called Caccuri v. Sony Interactive Entertainment, alleged that Sony violated anti-trust and consumer laws by essentially forcing “consumers to pay more for certain digital games than they otherwise would have paid on the PlayStation Store.” The class-action lawsuit specifically mentions that Sony removed digital vouchers for games from third-party retailers like Amazon or key resellers, leaving users with the only option to purchase games through the PlayStation Store. As we all know by now, PlayStation Store’s pricing can sometimes be twice as much as what other platforms would sell games for, and if a user’s only option is to use Sony’s high-priced store, they’ll have no other option than to fork over PlayStation’s asking price. With concerns mounting about Sony’s all-digital future once it kills physical game discs in 2028, it will leave consumers with no other options but to use the closed ecosystem of the PlayStation Store. The lawsuit alleges that consumers are being pushed towards the PlayStation Store being their only option and of course, Sony has denied any wrongdoing. The court has yet to actually decide if Sony violated any laws yet, though it has preliminarily approved a $7.85 million settlement which will be subject to a final hearing on 15 October. In order to be eligible for a cut of the settlement, you need to be a US citizen who purchased a digital game from this list between 1 April 2019 and 31 December 2023. If you’re eligible, PlayStation will deposit the funds directly into your PSN account. It’s unclear how much money individuals will receive once payments start going out, though we imagine $7.85 million could be dried up pretty quickly if enough US gamers chimed in for a piece of the pie. Source: Caccuri v. Sony Interactive Entertainment Original article on GLITCHED