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Daily Mirror
a day ago
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- Daily Mirror
Inzoi Island Getaway release time, content and how to unlock new summery cosmetics in Twitch Drops
Inzoi is getting a new expansion, and the Inzoi Island Getaway release date is right around the corner. Here's everything you need to know about the new DLC and the Twitch Drops Inzoi is gearing up to launch its new Island Getaway expansion, offering players the chance to unwind on a tropical island while mining, crafting and swimming. Despite mixed reviews suggesting that Inzoi may not be the next contestant to The Sims ' throne, the game is certainly striving to make its mark. Its early access release showcased a more photo-realistic, second-life-style approach to the life simulator genre, aiming for photogenic and Instagram-worthy moments – and now it's whisking you off on holiday. The Island Getaway DLC is due to arrive soon, promising sun-soaked adventures and additional crafting elements to differentiate itself. Whether this will actually succeed remains to be seen, but the latest Inzoi@Cahaya stream provided an extensive sneak peek at what the new expansion has in store. But there's more to the expansion than just sunbathing opportunities. In response to criticism about a lack of content in the game's early access stages, Krafton has added new vehicles and quality-of-life changes to help players better understand their Zoi's emotions and determine their next steps towards happiness. So, when exactly is the Inzoi Island Getaway release date? And what can we expect? Here's everything you need to know. Inzoi Island Getaway release time The Inzoi Island Getaway release time is scheduled for 11pm PDT on Tuesday, August 19, and 2am EDT / 7am BST on Wednesday, August 20. This information comes directly from Krafton, with the timing based on the release of a new update, presumably to deploy all necessary files to support the new DLC, launching simultaneously according to new Twitch Drops information shared on the Inzoi website. Inzoi Island Getaway Twitch Drops While waiting for the Inzoi Island Getaway release, Krafton has unveiled some new Twitch Drops for the game in anticipation of the expansion's arrival. If you've linked your Twitch account to your Krafton ID, you can watch influencer pre-release streams for 15 minutes to unlock the Cahaya Summer Straw Hat, and for 30 minutes to unlock the Cahaya Summer Shirt. The Inzoi Island Getaway Twitch Drops began at 6.30pm PDT / 9.30pm EDT on Thursday, August 14 and 2.30am BST on Friday, August 15, and will continue until 4.30pm PDT / 7.30pm EDT on Tuesday, August 19, and 12.30am BST on Wednesday, August 20. The items will be available in-game in the Create A Zoi menu marked with an 'N' icon. What's new in the Inzoi Island Getaway expansion? The latest Inzoi Island Getaway expansion transports you to the exotic island of Cahaya, offering a plethora of new activities such as mining, fishing, farming, and selling your produce. It's a shift towards a more Stardew Valley -esque gameplay, promising a unique gaming experience. You'll be transported to this new island location via an airport bus available in every town, where you can explore, purchase property, indulge in a massage, or simply bask in the sun. However, beware of storms and natural disasters that could disrupt your tranquil getaway. The update also introduces several quality-of-life improvements, including new inner emotions icons, a revamped GUI for better understanding your Zoi's emotions, and the addition of elevators to your builds. Enhanced light rendering, the introduction of scooters and motorcycles, and more await players in the broader game. It's a robust update, but whether it will lure players away from The Sims 4 and other life simulator games remains to be seen. In essence, the Inzoi Island Getaway expansion, as a free content drop, has the potential to revolutionise the entire gaming experience. We look forward to seeing you on Cahaya, hunting for gems in the soil.
Daily Mirror
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Inzoi Island Getaway stream start time and how to watch the new summery DLC spotlight
Inzoi's Island Getaway DLC is fast incoming, and the game's team is set to unveil a new look at what we can expect in a new stream. Inzoi's Island Getaway DLC is rapidly approaching, and the game's team is preparing to give us a sneak peek in an upcoming stream. Since Life of You was cancelled, it's difficult to envision any real competition for The Sims 4. The game's dominance in the life sim genre is almost self-evident, especially with its numerous DLC packs catering to a wide range of players. Whether it's the Enchanted by Nature pack that lets players indulge their fairy fantasies or the Life and Death pack that allows players to become the reaper, it's hard to see anyone else catching up. A fresh approach seems necessary, and that's exactly what Inzoi aims to provide with its focus on realism, stunning visuals, and a world that feels genuinely liveable. The game has been in early access long enough for players to familiarise themselves with its style. Despite receiving mixed reviews on Steam, there's still a fantastic opportunity for the game to establish itself and show fans that it can deliver what they want. Fortunately, there's plenty more in store as the game gears up to launch its Island Getaway DLC. The forthcoming Inzoi@Cahaya stream promises to give players a fresh look at the expansion pack, introduce some new Inzoi@Cahaya content, and even offer the chance to have their questions answered directly by the team. Wondering when this golden opportunity will present itself? Here's everything you need to know about the upcoming Inzoi Island Getaway stream. Introducing All Out Gaming Introducing All Out Gaming, a dedicated gaming brand providing the best gaming news, reviews, previews, interviews and more! Make sure you don't miss out on our latest high-quality videos on YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook, where we'll be posting our latest reviews, previews, interviews, and live streams! You can also subscribe to our free All Out Gaming newsletter service. Click here to be sent all the day's biggest stories. How to watch the Inzoi Island Getaway stream The Inzoi Island Getaway stream is set to kick off at 6pm PDT / 9pm EDT on Thursday, August 14, and 2am BST on Friday, August 15. You can catch all the action on the Inzoi channels on YouTube and Twitch. The stream isn't live on Inzoi's Twitch page yet, but we'll provide a link as soon as it's up and running. Watch the Inzoi Island Getaway stream on YouTube If you're itching to ask the game's team a question during the stream, you can do so on the dedicated page, inzoi-ama-qna, in the Inzoi Discord channel. Pop your question in before the show starts, and the team might just answer exactly what you've been dying to know about the game. This stream promises to be quite enlightening, and is a valuable resource for players looking to get their hands on the DLC on Wednesday, August 20. We look forward to seeing you in the chat, and on the island.
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
With Nvidia Ace taking up 1 GB of VRAM in Inzoi, Team Green will need to up its memory game if AI NPCs take off in PC gaming
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. At this year's GDC event, Nvidia showcased all its latest RTX technologies, including Ace, its software suite of 'digital human technologies.' One of the first games to use it is Inzoi, a Sims-like game, and while chatting to Nvidia about it, I learned that the AI model takes up a surprising amount of VRAM, which raises an interesting question about how much memory future GeForce cards are going to have. The implementation of Nvidia Ace in Inzoi (or inZOI, to use the correct title) is relatively low-key. The family you control, along with background NPCs, all display 'thought bubbles' which give you clues as to how they're feeling, what their plans are, and what they're considering doing in the future. Enabling Nvidia's AI system gives you a bit more control over their thoughts, as well as making them adapt and respond to changes around them more realistically. In terms of technical details, the AI system used is a Mistral NeMo Minitron small language model, with 500 million parameters. The developers had experimented with larger models but settled on this size, as it gave the best balance between responsiveness, accuracy, and most importantly of all, performance. Larger models use more GPU resources to process and in this specific case, Inzoi uses 1 GB of VRAM to store the model. That may not seem like very much, but this is a small model with some clear limitations. For example, it doesn't get applied to every NPC, just those within visible range and it won't result in any major transformations to a character's life. The smaller the language model, the less accurate it is, and it has the potential to hallucinate more (i.e. produces results that aren't in training data). While Inzoi's AI system isn't all that impressive, what I saw in action at the GDC made me think that Nvidia's Ace has huge potential for other genres, particularly large, open-world RPGs. Alternatives already exist as mods for certain games, such as Mantella for Skyrim, and it transforms the dull, repetitive nature of NPC 'conversations' into something far more realistic and immersive. To transform such games into 'living, breathing worlds,' much larger models will be required and traditionally, this involves a cloud-based system. However, a local model would be far preferable for most PC gamers worldwide, which brings us to the topic of VRAM. Nvidia has been offering 8 GB of memory on its mainstream graphics cards for years, and other than the glitch in the matrix that is the RTX 3060, it doesn't seem to want to change this any time soon. Intel and AMD have been doing the same, of course, but where 16 GB of VRAM is the preserve of Nvidia's high-end GPUs, such as the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5080, one can get that amount of memory on far cheaper Arc and Radeon cards. But if Nvidia Ace really takes off and developers start to complain that they're being restricted about what they can achieve with the software suite, because of the size of the SLM (small language model) they're having to use, then the jolly green giant will have to respond by upping the amount of VRAM it offers across the board. After all, other aspects of PCs/computers have needed to increase the minimum amount of memory they sport because of AI, such as Apple with its base Mac spec and Lunar Lake laptops having 16 GB because of Copilot. It's not often that one can say AI is doing something really useful for gamers but in this case, I think Nvidia's Ace and competing systems may well be what pushes graphics cards to consign 8 GB of VRAM to history. Not textures, ray tracing, or frame generation but realistic NPC responses. Progress never quite goes in the direction you always expect it to. Best CPU for gaming: Top chips from Intel and gaming motherboard: The right graphics card: Your perfect pixel-pusher SSD for gaming: Get into the game first.
Yahoo
19-03-2025
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- Yahoo
Inzoi is giving eager life simmers another free taste of its gorgeous character creator, with a bonus build mode demo for the architecture nerds
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. In less than two weeks, The Sims is finally getting some much-needed competition: Inzoi's launching into early access on March 28. For those who are already foaming at the mouth at the prospect of a more realistic life sim, though, good news. Krafton is giving folk the chance to dive into a couple of its creators before the big release… if you watch a bunch of streamers, that is. Both the Character Studio and Build Studio are opening their doors from March 20, giving players a little taste of what's to come from the full game. The former is the Create-a-Zoi mode that some players will have already had time with during the brief demo weekend back in August. The latter, however, isn't quite clear yet—the announcement page gives a very vague description of "construction". I assume, in that case, that it's a standalone mode letting you put your architectural cap on for designing houses and the like. They'll be packaged together under the standalone Inzoi: Creative Studio, and if enthusiastic life simmers want to grab a key, they'll need to tune into a Twitch stream to do it. Mercifully, you'll only actually have to watch 15 minutes of any stream in the Inzoi category in order to grab a key. If Twitch isn't your thing, you can also watch 30 minutes of the stream at the top of the Inzoi Steam page. And hey, if you're mega anti-streaming for whatever reason, it turns out you can simply wait it out for three days, as Krafton plans to throw the Creative Studio up on Steam for everyone on March 23, regardless of whether you watched a random content creator or not. While it won't be offering any gameplay, the Creative Studio could stand to be a good way to test the waters for just how well this thing is gonna run on people's rigs. Inzoi's system requirements are a little steep—though I guess it's to be expected for how beautiful and sparkly the whole thing is—and while I doubt there'll be anything particularly intensive behind either mode, it's a good initial test regardless. Plus, this is only the second time there's been any sort of public access to Inzoi, and what better time to throw out some breadcrumbs than right before its release? It'll be nice to get some idea of what this game has to offer while we're this close to the finish line. I mean, we don't even know how much the dang thing is gonna cost, though it promises to reveal that in this week's showcase.
Yahoo
18-02-2025
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- Yahoo
Inzoi's game director teases plans for ghost Zois getting shackled to the mortal realm, karma-starved and seeking redemption if they die with a bad rep
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The early access launch for fresh new Sims competitor Inzoi is just about six weeks away and information about its features—those coming in time for early access and those planned to be developed later—are arriving at a weekly pace now. Over the weekend we got yet more details about Inzoi's life sim features, this time revolving around the afterlife. In his weekly teaser for fans in Inzoi's official Discord server, game director Hyungjun "Kjun" Kim got into talking about the paranormal, specifically ghosts. He acknowledges that Inzoi is mostly focused on realism, which is obvious from its glossy, well-lit visuals but also the features it's chosen to prioritize. Kjun does want to see some fantastical elements make it into the game though. "We want to keep the playability of ghosts fairly limited so it doesn't overshadow the main gameplay, but we also want to make sure the experience is engaging enough when it does happen," Kjun told players in Discord. 'Ghost gameplay' as Kjun's currently explained it revolves around Inzoi's karma system, which we saw a little of during some Inzoi playtests with content creators last year. They showed some karma-affecting actions (like farting?) and a karma score in each Zoi's profile. Kjun says that Zois who die with enough karma points will pack up for the afterlife peacefully, but those with poor karma will remain as ghosts and will need to hang about attempting to restore their karma. Ghosts as they'll be implemented for Inzoi's early access in March will be present but you won't be able to control them. That's planned for later. "Any further development for ghosts will have to come after the release," Kjun says. "That said, our current build allows you to encounter ghosts at set times under certain conditions." As for what's planned for even further down the line, Kjun doesn't count out the possibility of other paranormal Zois. "While we're committed to refining the realistic elements of inZOI first, I'd love to explore more fantasy-driven elements in the future," he added. The majority of life sim players coming from The Sims 4 will be familiar with the popularity of "occult" sims like ghosts, vampires, werewolves, mermaids, etc. They're a whole popular gameplay category, some with their own dedicated expansions packs. As Kim says, that's not really Inzoi's aim, but it's nice to see Inzoi Studio entertaining the idea of dipping into some of those popular fantasy characters. You can keep up with everything we know about Inzoi ahead of its early access launch in March and in the meantime keep track of the other upcoming games like the Sims that we're expecting this year. Sims 4 cheats: Life hacksSims 3 cheats: Classic hacksSims 4 mods: Play your waySims 4 CC: Custom contentProject Rene: What we know
