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'The most striking on the surface thing is going to be the density of what you see' — Metro 2039 creative director says the game's new engine allows 'billions' of objects, whereas Metro Exodus allowed up to 30 million

Metro 2039 creative director Andriy Shevchenko says the new game engine allows for "billions" of objects
Executive producer Jon Bloch reveals it enables 4A Games to create a realistic and dense world
Bloch says the team is working to optimize the game for lower-spec, as well as high-spec, systems

Metro 2039 creative director Andriy Shevchenko has revealed that 4A Games' latest game engine allows for "billions" of assets to create a dense, realistic world.

In a new interview with TechRadar Gaming, Shevchenko, alongside executive producer Jon Bloch, discussed how the new engine enabled the team to overhaul the game's audio system, enhance ray-tracing, and improve visual immersion by increasing the density of objects and characters.

"We're able to push so much more into the world to make it that much more realistic, that much more alive feeling, that much more tactile," Bloch said, adding that these improvements also come with...

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Check Point Blocks Large-Scale Debt-Relief Email Phishing Campaign Targeting More Than 9,000 Organizations

Check Point has identified and blocked a large-scale email phishing campaign using fraudulent financial hardship and debt-relief offers to manipulate recipients into calling attacker-controlled phone numbers. Over the past 14 days, Check Point observed approximately 24,700 emails associated with the campaign targeting users across more than 9,000 organizations,

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Japan wants stock and bond settlement to happen instantly, on a blockchain

Japan is studying whether to move the settlement of stocks and government bonds onto blockchain infrastructure capable of running in real time around the clock, according to Nikkei, in a project involving the Financial Services Agency, the Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Japan, and the country’s three largest

Revolut is launching a euro stablecoin into a market MiCA handed to an American company

Revolut is launching a euro-backed stablecoin, entering a market that European regulation has spent two years accidentally consolidating around a single American issuer. The neobank is also one of the 36 firms the ECB picked for its digital euro pilot, which means it is now building the private euro token

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AI won’t transform healthcare until we fix information overload

TL;DR Healthcare generates more data than clinicians can process, and adding AI tools risks making it worse. Over 70% of healthcare professionals say technology is being deployed faster than it can be operationalized. Doug Benoit argues AI should filter rather than flood, protect clinical attention rather than compete for

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Check Point Blocks Large-Scale Debt-Relief Email Phishing Campaign Targeting More Than 9,000 Organizations

Japan wants stock and bond settlement to happen instantly, on a blockchain

Revolut is launching a euro stablecoin into a market MiCA handed to an American company

AI won’t transform healthcare until we fix information overload