Arc Raiders is out today, and while a wild number of players have flocked to the game to celebrate its launch, it's no secret that the extraction shooter shared a familiar point of controversy to Embark Studio's prior game The Finals. That sore spot for many gaming enthusiasts is AI, a technology Embark has made no secret of exploring. Read more Read more âș
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Four years after its last major update, Nintendo has announced it's reviving Animal Crossing: New Horizons early next year with a new Switch 2 Edition, a major content update for all players - including a new on-island Resort Hotel - and a special Lego collaboration. Additionally, it's bringing back the ability to play classic Nintendo titles in-game (a feature long-time fans have been hoping to see return for decades), but... Read more âș
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Amid reports Amazon has 'gutted' its video games division as part of 14,000 company wide job cuts earlier this week, one former developer has suggested its Lord of the Rings MMO has also been cancelled. Read more Read more âș
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Take-Two Interactive boss Strauss Zelnick has returned to the subject of AI, this time suggesting the controversial technology could never create anything like GTA 6 because "no creativity... can exist by definition in any AI model." Read more Read more âș
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Iâd argue that there was probably no greater poisoned chalice in games than taking on the job of remaking Final Fantasy 7. Hyped for years before it was announced, its reveal part of the so-called âE3 of dreamsâ, and it is of course a reimagining of one of the most important and beloved role-playing games of all time. Even if it was brilliant, there would inevitably be grousing from some... Read more âș
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The backlash to the Trump administration's use of AI Halo imagery to promote political causes - notably the use of force by ICE to detain purportedly illegal immigrants - has spread to include strongly worded responses from the original designers of the Halo game. Read more Read more âș
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Arc Raiders servers have gone live, and following the historical trend of massive releases and server woes, players are running into an Online Connection Error thousands across PC and consoles flood in. Read more Read more âș
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has provided yet another hint that the next Xbox console will, in essence, be a PC, in a recent interview. Read more Read more âș
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Escape from Duckov isn't what I was expecting at all. Soaring concurrent player-counts and extraordinary sales are usually reserved for Steam games with multiplayer. Those are the games that tend to catch hold and burn hot, then burn out, some months later. But Duckov is a single-player game, or at least it is in its standard form (there are co-operative mods). It's a single-player extraction shooter, which even to write... Read more âș
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A new selection of downloadable games are coming to PlayStation Plus this November, as a modern horror classic gets cycled out alongside the Halloween season. Read more Read more âș
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Capcom has released its latest bi-annual financial report, revealing among other interesting tidbits that Monster Hunter: Wilds sales have drastically fallen. In fact, it has fallen so much that Monster Hunter: Rise outsold it in recent months. Read more Read more âș
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There's a rare experience with video games when an entire genre just clicks for you. A moment when the appeal makes sense. Crawling onto an elevator with a backpack full of loot, hastily initiating the extraction sequence with seconds left to live, Arc Raiders did exactly that. It let off a firework in my head. How was I ever not a fan of this? Read more Read more âș
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Reports have been swirling that The Wachowski sisters, creators of The Matrix series of films, once approached Konami to have decorated Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima make a Matrix game. Read more Read more âș
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It's 2004, you've created a Facebook account, and you've heard whispers of something called the Nintendo DS dancing on the wind. You're a fan of scary video games and, like everyone, Gillian Anderson. If only there was a video game for you⊠Read more Read more âș
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Battlefield 6 received both its Season One update yesterday, as well as the Redsec battle royale mode in a massive content update for the popular military FPS. Not everyone is happy though. Read more Read more âș
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I imagine the biggest question people who've put hundreds or thousands of hours into Amazon's MMO New World have right now is: are all my efforts about to be wiped? Is the game about to go offline, and close? Read more Read more âș
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Embark Studios CEO Patrick Soderlund isn't worried about Arc Raiders releasing between Battlefield 6 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. Read more Read more âș
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Permit me to take you on a journey back to 1994. As I've mentioned before, it was the year my parents finally relented (after a whole lot of nagging about how vitally important Microsoft Encarta would undoubtedly be to my future career prospects) and the benevolent PC gods squatted upon our household to birth a 486 DX2/66 into the world. But of course it was never about Encarta. Within days,... Read more âș
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Following Amazon's decision to cuts 14,000 jobs, a new report has claimed the company is "gutting" its video games division as part of the move. Read more Read more âș
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Gloomy and unsettling top-down horror game Darkwood is getting a sequel and, it turns out, a surprise new developer. Original creator Acid Wizard, and publisher Hooded Horse, have brought in Pathologic developer Ice-Pick Lodge to do the work. Read more Read more âș
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