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We're getting even more free lootboxes and a double XP weekend in Overwatch just for playing the game

Street Fighter 2 producer Yoshiki Okamoto now makes gacha games and spends half a million dollars on each 'to make sure the people who spend the most don't end up dissatisfied'

Life is Strange developer Don't Nod adds a dash of Alien: Isolation anxiety to its usual cinematic formula, and I think it works

Blood Bowl creator Jervis Johnson agrees with Games Workshop's AI ban, says 'it allows you to be a bit lazy and not put in the effort'

'Art and science and procreation, that's about all life is good for:' Two former freeware developers are still trying to keep it weird in an era when companies 'sell games to people in 5-second clips'

An Elite Dangerous player discovered a way to write new stories into the margins of the 12-year-old space sandbox, and now thousands are testing it

Judging by the GPT-4o situation, game developers will have a big problem if they get serious about AI chatbot NPCs

Arc Raiders' next update adds hurricanes, and players think the teaser is hiding a new Arc enemy too

Stop Killing Games is launching NGOs in the European Union and the US: 'We're not just going away on this'

Dutch defense secretary says 'you can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone,' and I'm here to tell the Dutch defense secretary that this is a great opportunity to run Doom on a fighter jet

One of the best puzzle games ever is getting surprise DLC even though its developer kind of closed a while ago

The next Witcher spin-off game is about Dandelion sharing his version of Geralt's adventures with the world: 'you might encounter a stuffed unicorn'

Diablo 2 player discovers the key to immortality on the new warlock class is to use a pet demon as a shield

Surprise: Slay the Spire 2 is bringing 4-player co-op when it hits early access on March 6

XCOM designer Jake Solomon announces surprise closure of his studio alongside a first look at its canceled life sim, 'the game we poured our hearts into'

First Monopoly, then Catan, and now Netflix has announced a movie based on the Ticket to Ride board game

The many-boxed roadmap represents everything I hate about shooters right now

If you've ever had a crippling Vampire Survivors or Slay the Spire habit, avoid Vampire Crawlers at all costs

Ubisoft lays off 40 people at its Toronto studio, reassures everyone who remembers the Splinter Cell remake that the Splinter Cell remake is still happening

Bluepoint Games, Sony's famed remaster studio, is being closed as the fallout from PlayStation's disastrous pivot to live service continues

Arc Raiders full interview: 'Nobody whatsoever thought we'd have this many players'

Beyerdynamic MMX 150 Wireless gaming headset review

Saving blueprints after an Expedition isn't 'off the table', says Arc Raiders' director, but Embark is also looking at alternatives

'Preserving the web is not the problem. Losing it is,' claims the director of the Internet Archive

Highguard website woes are just an administrative thing, developer says, and the studio is in no rush to fix it because 'reputational damage' is already done

One leaker's cryptic post suggests that AMD's next Ryzen lineup will have some serious core configurations across the range

13-year-old Decima engine allows Death Stranding team to 'accomplish many things that would be difficult to achieve elsewhere'

PC sales of High On Life were just behind PlayStation, the 'lead platform,' but Xbox trailed behind despite its 7-month console exclusivity deal

My favourite thing about Linux gaming will now automagically apply crucial fan patches to your Metal Gear installs, making it even easier than on Windows

At a mere 2 square micrometers in size, this is the world's smallest QR code and it's 'smaller than most bacteria'

WoW lead says they 'lost something along the way' by building dungeons for sweaty Mythic+ timers instead of 20-boss mazes like the good old days, but Labyrinths could be the solution

League of Legends might be adding public voice chat—and as someone with a combined 2,655 hours in Dota 2 and Deadlock, I can safely say: Oh no

Microsoft says its glass-based storage project now works with 'the same material found in kitchen cookware and oven doors' and can hold data for 10,000 years

Understandable AI paranoia has inspired a developer to change the handcrafted character art in its upcoming sim: 'They look a bit AI'

Nvidia dumps its $140 million stake in Arm but licensing deals remain and its new PC CPU is still go

Birdwatching Notebook is meant to be a relaxing idler, but it drove me to new depths of unlock-obsessed birdmania

The new game from Disco Elysium's studio feels like the first Christmas after your parents' divorce

I romanced a hunky British man with a shotgun for a head in a game that lets me have 'US government approved pronouns' like Jamestown, grits, and freedom

Dutch police have arrested a man for reportedly refusing to relinquish files they sent him: 'He would only comply if he received something in return'

Nvidia's DLSS upscaling beats AMD's FSR and plain old native rendering at 4K in a poll of over 1,000 gamers

New research suggests folks are relying on 'outdated visual cues' to identify AI-generated faces—but I did get 14/20 on the test

WoW's classes were pruned for Midnight because many were 'built in a world' where its devs assumed they'd be using addons

Obsidian was 'surprised' that Avowed players bounced off one of the RPG's most important systems: 'That frustration came through loud and clear'

Firefox is finally ending support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, and urges users to upgrade or switch to Linux

Avowed's massive anniversary update adds new playable races, but they don't get any unique dialogue because there were 'no dedicated narrative people available'

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Jensen Huang teases reveal of 'a chip that will surprise the world' at next month's GTC

The 'LeBron James of spreadsheets' thought Excel becoming a popular esport was 'unlikely' before winning the grand prize in Las Vegas

Devil Daggers 2 is in development, as its creator confirms fewer than 1,500 people survived longer than 8 minutes in the original

The Killing Stone combines occult contract law with card-battling in an isolated 17th century mansion