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Mark’s on holiday today, which means we can’t do our usual thing of workplace-bullying him into writing about Fallout 76 while we sit around in wingback chairs drinking Glenfiddich. But if he were here, he’d surely be thrilled to note this PCGN interview with Bethesda Game Studios creative director Jon Rush, who says he hopes the multiplayer RPG can become “thicker” in 2026. Oh my.
What do you do if you find you have a dead Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti on your hands? Well, if you’re Brazilian GPU modding wizards Paulo Gomes and Enzo Tulio, you get it working again and break some records, of course. After receiving the RTX 5070 Ti last year, Paulo Gomes managed to get the card working again by Frankenstein’s monstering it together with the PCB from an RTX 2080 Ti, using the donor board’s power circuitry to get the GPU firing up again. With what is one of Nvidia’s best graphics card options now restored to some sort…
A number of video game companies have seen their share prices fall in the wake of Google’s rollout of Project Genie.The company announced last week that it had started rolling out a prototype version of Project Genie, an AI tool that lets users generate their own playable worlds.According to Google, users can create worlds by either typing in prompts or uploading images. They then create their character in a similar way.Users can also define certain other properties, such as how the character moves, or whether the world is explored in first-person or third-person. As players explore the world, the tool…
The Batman 2 screenwriter Mattson Tomlin is working hard on his Game of Thrones spin-off.”Always satisfying to finish filling a notebook,” he wrote on Twitter, alongside a photo of two notebooks. One is labelled “Conquest/Caine 24/25”, while the other is marked “Conquest/Possessor/16 Bars/The Crew.””Conquest” refers to Aegon’s Conquest, which has been in development for around two years now. Originally assumed to be another TV show, last month it was reported that the project “is being developed by HBO as a possible drama series and by the Warner Bros. film team as a mammoth Dune-sized feature film.” You may like Set…
HBO’s The Last of Us TV adaptation is likely ending with its upcoming third season, according to network CEO Casey Bloys. Speaking to Deadline, that boy Bloys used his voice to address the noise that the joys of the Naughty Dog-inspired series would end with season three, saying “It certainly seems that way.” Pedro Pascal’s dreams, destroyed.
An instrumental medley of Super Mario music was among the Grammy Award winners on Sunday, alongside the prolific game composer, Austin Wintory.8-Bit Big Band, a 30+ member Jazz orchestra based mostly in New York City, won the Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental, or A Cappella for ‘Super Mario Praise Break’.The arrangement features instrumental covers of the Super Mario Bros. theme, Bob-Omb Battlefield from Super Mario 64, Gusty Garden Galaxy from Super Mario Galaxy, and Athletic Theme from Super Mario World.It’s the second time 8-Bit Big Band has won a Grammy for their video game covers, after their version of…
Nine years after securing $3.2 million on Kickstarter and mere weeks after launching into Steam Early Access, MMORPG Ashes Of Creation is in humongous difficulties. The game’s entire leadership team have allegedly quit “in protest” at decisions made by the board of Intrepid Studios, with creative director Steven Sharif accusing board members of “directing actions that I could not ethically agree with or carry out”. Other staff have announced that they’ve been laid off, with one calling it the end of the studio. Kickstarted back in 2017, Ashes Of Creation finally launched in Steam early access on 11th December.…
The Switch version of Apex Legends will shut down in the summer, developer Respawn has announced.The game originally launched of PS4, Xbox One and PC in 2019 before being ported to Switch in 2021.Now the Switch version will terminate in a few seasons’ time, Respawn has warned, with the start of Season 30 marking the end of the Switch game.“Season 29 will be the final update for Apex Legends on Nintendo Switch,” the studio announced on X. “Future seasons of Apex Legends will continue to be available on Nintendo Switch 2.“Starting August 4, 2026 (Season 30), Apex Legends will no…
This week in new PC games: some new PC games. Look, sometimes I have the energy and fortitude to write a 500 word overture about four dimensional tapeworms, and sometimes I look upon the intro as nothing but a hateful chore. I just want to list some games, but internet etiquette requires that I occupy your eyeballs with a proper paragraph or two before we break out the bullet points. Is this enough of a preamble yet? No? How about now? Come ooooon, there’s a tasty new tactics RPG at the bottom of the page. Scroll down, you apes!
In the third episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, a mysterious prophecy is given to Dunk and Egg – and it has some fascinating roots in George R.R. Martin’s sprawling Westeros lore.Below, we’ve broken down what this prophecy is in the show, as well as what it means based on information from the books. Naturally, that means there are A Song of Ice and Fire spoilers ahead, and these spoilers will give away the fates of multiple A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms characters. So, if you don’t want to know any more about the show, turn back…