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Sega pulls Total War: Shogun 2 remaster from sale following disastrous launch

Sega pulled the Total War: Shogun 2 remaster from sale after a bug-ridden launch and suspected AI art issues.

Sega and Creative Assembly removed Total War: Shogun 2 — Complete Edition from storefronts, including Steam, after a disastrous Tuesday launch. The 2011 strategy-game remaster bundled all DLC and promised improved visuals, 1440p and 4K UI scaling, and modernized controls, but drew an Overwhelmingly Negative Steam rating over bugs and artwork users believe was damaged by AI upscaling. Existing owners can still access Complete Edition, and the companies said they will reinstate the original game while working with development partner Mataboo on fixes.

The Verge · AIOct 15, 22:35 UTC · 1d agoOther

Epic says its new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher is faster than Steam

Epic Games released a preview launcher rewritten with AI that it says starts faster than Steam.

Epic Games released a public Preview of a rebuilt Epic Games Launcher and said the team used AI, or vibe coding, to write and review a new codebase instead of porting the old one. Store general manager Martin Keely said a small team replicated existing functionality in a different stack for Windows and Mac, with Linux planned. Epic claims the launcher starts faster than Steam; Ars testing found a few seconds' cold-start advantage, while a claimed 0.06-second tray-restore difference was not noticeable.

Ars Technica · AIOct 14, 21:15 UTC · 2d agoAI industry1

Awesome Gaming on Linux Without Cheating

Epic is rebuilding Linux Easy Anti-Cheat around signed kernels, TPM 2.0, and Secure Boot, starting with Fortnite.

Epic Games said it is rebuilding Easy Anti-Cheat for Linux as EAC Linux v2 so protection is closer to Windows and more games, including Fortnite, can run on Linux. Protected play will require a kernel and modules signed with well-known keys, TPM 2.0, and Secure Boot with attestation, plus a systemd service that runs only while a protected game is open. Epic said it will rely on measured boot, kernel lockdown, IOMMU, and its own eBPF logic instead of a kernel module, and will pilot the system in Fortnite before offering it to other developers.

Lobsters · securityOct 14, 15:13 UTC · 2d agoOther1· 1 read

The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux

A Valve engineer improved Linux AMDGPU support so decade-old AMD GCN graphics cards run better.

Timur Kristóf of Valve’s Linux graphics team presented at XDC 2026 on moving decade-old AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs from the legacy Radeon driver to the AMDGPU kernel driver. The work enables the RADV Vulkan driver, better performance, and fixes for display and power-management issues, plus soft-reset support. Phoronix previously reported roughly a 30 percent performance boost for these cards in Linux 6.19.

Hacker News · AIOct 3, 19:14 UTC · 13d agoOther HN 48↑ · 3 comments

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Sega pulls Total War: Shogun 2 remaster from sale following disastrous launch

Epic says its new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher is faster than Steam

Awesome Gaming on Linux Without Cheating

The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux