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Microsoft are telling the world that the sooner we all switch to using generative AI tools in our day-to-day lives, the sooner we will 10x ourselves. Yet the corporation are still only finding haphazard pick up by videogame developers, including some of their own studios. As executive producer Susan Kath tells me, the Elder Scrolls Online team haven’t yet found a part of development where they can use it. “Right now, we generally use it for things like this,” Kath says, indicating our call. “A lot of us get a lot of use out of Copilot, for meetings, for summaries,…
Remedy Entertainment has leapt to the defense of Epic Games after comments from its CEO, Tim Sweeney, were criticized by Larian Studios’ director of publishing, Michael ‘Cromwelp’ Douse. Following Sweeney’s jabs at Steam and an indirect poke at head honcho Gabe Newell, there’s been a lot of discussion around why the Epic Games Store struggles to achieve the same level of users and revenue as Valve’s platform. However, Douse’s critique went one further, claiming that “Remedy seemingly went into financial crisis” after signing a publishing deal with Epic that made Alan Wake 2 an EGS exclusive. Now, the Finnish studio…
Double Fine Productions has announced Kiln, an “online multiplayer pottery party brawler”.Players take control of a small spirit, who can’t battle unprotected and so decides to create some armour.Players sculpt this armour out of clay using a pottery wheel, meaning they have full control over its appearance and properties.“Will you be big, or small? Wide, or tall? Will you make a plate, a jug, a cup or a bowl?” the game’s description reads.“Do you prefer to throw pies in your enemy’s face, or transform into a stick of dynamite to be tossed into the fray? There are a multitude of…
As Emma and her dog, Koo, set out on an adventure across Japan, Beast of Reincarnation may seem like familiar territory for Pokemon developer Game Freak at first blush. In some ways, as a story of “plants, animals, and nature,” it is. Until you notice, well, the post-apocalypse, and the absurdly slick battle combos Emma is able to pull off as she synergizes explosive skills with Koo to battle massive beasts and legions of deadly robots.Set in 4026, Japan has been overrun by the blight in Beast of Reincarnation – cities are overgrown and dense forests hiding human ruins. “The…
As the price of RAM, GPUs, and even SSDs climbs ever higher off the back of AI data centre demand, it’s causing a significant price crunch for hardware manufacturers. “It is such a volatile situation at this point in time it is hard to figure out pricing,” Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan said in a recent episode of The Verge’s Decoder podcast. “I don’t know if I can pick a number right now as I speak with you and [be confident in it] by the end of the podcast.” The rapidly increasing prices mean the company are keeping schtum on how…
Ubisoft delaying and canceling projects isn’t exactly shocking these days. We’re all used to seeing the company’s games get pushed back, axed during development, or shut down after launch – I miss you, XDefiant… What we’re not used to, though, is seeing several of them impacted all in one, ruthless swoop. That’s what happened yesterday, with Ubisoft revealing a “major reset” of its studios and its lineup of upcoming games, something it deems necessary to futureproof itself. While the seven mystery delays and six cancellations – one of which was the long-awaited Prince of Persia Sands of Time remake -…
Battlefield 6 outsold Call of Duty for the first time ever last year in the US, according to data from market research firm Circana.The Electronic Arts shooter was the best-selling game of 2025 across Circana’s tracked platforms, ranking first on Xbox and aggregated PC storefronts, and second on PlayStation, behind only NBA 2K26.The latest Call of Duty entry, Black Ops 7, placed fifth, behind Battlefield, NBA 2K26, Borderlands 4, and Monster Hunter: Wilds.It’s worth noting that Black Ops 7 was launched in Xbox Game Pass, while Battlefield was not, and the EA title also released around six weeks earlier.Still, it’s…
Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade only just launched on Switch 2 and Xbox Series X|S, but ports of the other two parts of the trilogy are already in development, and director Naoki Hamaguchi promises that neither will be compromised on Nintendo’s new handheld console.Hamaguchi has alluded to the fact that the entire Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy is coming to all consoles before, but this is our first solid confirmation that ports are in development as we speak, per a new Nintendo blog post speaking to the lead developer.”There’s not a huge amount of information I can share in terms…
The second post-release update to Hytale is currently set to rock up this weekend, but the notes outlining what it’ll include have rocked up a couple of days early. As with last week’s first update to the early access sandbox, this is another pretty beefy one, and especially noteworthy if raising the dead’s your jam or you share Indiana Jones’ main fear.
Razer’s next flagship gaming mouse might have just been spotted at the recent VCT Americas Valorant tournament. BBL member Rose was seen using a mysterious camouflaged mouse, and it looked suspiciously like a new Razer Viper V4 Pro. Razer has pulled such a move before, with us spotting the Razer Deathadder V4 Pro being used openly in tournaments months before the its official launch. That mouse went on to be one of the best gaming mouse options of last year, and I suspect the Viper will stand a good chance of earning similar honors. The new model was spotted by…