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Epic Games has reportedly turned to gen-AI to finish up development on a shooter that crosses over Star Wars and Marvel, which has been internally delayed.
Read at EurogamerAs the MCU retreats from Disney Plus, VisionQuest is a perfect bookend to an experiment that began five years earlier with WandaVision
Read at PolygonRomancing SaGa 3 combines the best parts of Square Enix's biggest RPG franchises, according to our recent preview.
Read at PolygonYuji Horii, the creator of Dragon Quest, says he has produced a new game using AI in about 30 minutes.
Read at GamesIndustry.bizAn update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include: Added 'No Grenades' style for the General's Greatcoat Fixed regression in the Sandwich Diner war paint Fixed an exploit where the Dragon's Fury could crash the server Updated the in-game item importer to support the Medic's backpack bodygroup Updated the style names for The Damage Dealer Updated the Flor de Muerto Unusual effect to fix to fix clutter issues Updated...
Read at Steam News"We're basically trying to entice players to want to create new characters, to roll an alt."
Read at PC GamerDeveloper Hello Games has somehow managed to fit its universe-sized space sim No Man's Sky onto iPhone and iPad devices, and it's partly thanks to the studio's upcoming Light No Fire.
Read at EurogamerThe post Get the Shattered Relay Weapon Blueprint in Call of Duty: Mobile as a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Pre-order Bonus appeared first on XBOX Wire .
Read at Xbox WirePretty good first-person Soulsliker Valor Mortis seems to have sliced its PC system requirements down, dropping its minimum CPU and graphics cards demands as an October 13th launch – for those who never trusted calendars, that’s tomorrow – looms.
Read at Rock Paper ShotgunColorbound is a puzzle-platformer in which you play as Anku, a boy who lives in the mountains of Chile with his grandmother. His grandfather, Eloy, has passed away, and Anku and his grandmother remember the color Eloy brought to their lives through his music. Panpipe Studio turns this idea into reality, using color and music […] The post Colorbound Explores Aymara Culture Through Color, Music, and a Heartfelt Story appeared first on XBOX Wire .
Read at Xbox WireNintendo has no plans to move away from physical games.
Read at GamesIndustry.bizDragon Quest co-creator Yuji Horii has just released a new game that he says was made (or, rather, prompted) in about half an hour thanks to gen-AI.
Read at EurogamerYou'll need this super rare material to upgrade your gunsmith.
Read at PC GamerYou need to have a very high IQ to understand Grand Theft Auto.
Read at PC GamerBurn With Me is a hand-drawn game in which the most prominent non-hand-drawn bit is artist Eva Manuilovich's own right hand . Excellent, no notes. Manuilovich's hand appears on the right throughout each match ritual, dealing cards with a flick of the index finger; when you beat the target score, it gives you a thumbs-up, then reaches languidly towards the card you've won.
Read at Rock Paper ShotgunLast week, Valve chose their absolute most favourite announcement time – Friday evening, after we all go home – to release the Steam Frame ’s CAD files to the world. In short, this lets anyone with a 3D printer or a lathe or an injection moulder (etcetera) take the VR headset’s official blueprints and use them to make cool stuff for it. Non-commercially, of course. Even before this great declassifying, though, it seems some lucky first-wave Frame recipients were already putting their own...
Read at Rock Paper ShotgunNvidia has reportedly stopped manufacturing the GeForce RTX 5090, including the D variants made for the Chinese market.
Read at GamesIndustry.bizNvidia, AI-obsessives to the point of yassifying basketballers , are shifting production away from their top of the range RTX 5090 consumer graphics cards in favour of RTX Pro ones. That's according to a leaker with a solid track record when it comes to the company. If accurate, the move's the latest instance of a gaming tech firm turning away from regular PC owners to chase the more plentiful cash offered by hawking gear to GenAI developers and datacenters .
Read at Rock Paper ShotgunThe number of games industry mergers and acquisitions stayed steady in the third quarter with 54 transactions totalling $57.8 billion, according to investment bank Aream & Co.
Read at GamesIndustry.bizThe new Street Fighter movie hits theaters in just a few days, and if you're a fan of the Capcom series, you might be tempted to celebrate with some new poster art on your wall. While the official poster for that movie is fine , Mondo's new Street Fighter 2 poster is much better, striking, and it doesn't feature a gallery of floating heads--just one, in fact, being punched off the beefy shoulders of a Shadaloo enforcer. If you're wondering what that piece of fine art looks like, GameSpot can exclusively reveal it...
Read at GameSpotInvestigation of the "draining incident of Oct 9th" is ongoing.
Read at PC GamerChris Kerr, former Senior Editor of GDC sibling Game Developer (formerly Gamasutra) has launched a new subscription-funded publication to deliver "incisive, bold reporting for video game industry professionals" that "scrutinises with intensity and integrity without having to worry about conflicting commercial interests."
Read at GamesIndustry.biz"Hey, you still in there?"
Read at PC GamerRiding the wave(guide).
Read at PC GamerSteam broke its own record this weekend, with over 43 million concurrent users on the platform.
Read at PolygonVampire Crawlers is out now on iPhone and iPad, and it's going to be a problem for me personally.
Read at PolygonThe Legend of Zelda series is fond of stories about the inexorable and obliviating passage of time. Somebody should make one about growing so old, stupid and exhausted that you can't distinguish original Zelda games from romhacks of those games. Romhacks like Indigo, a "full game replacement" for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, set 15 years after the events of Majora's Mask. It's got a couple of public demos, and is playable on PC via static recompilation - the mechanical translation of the console code into...
Read at Rock Paper ShotgunPercy Jackson season 3 is getting a release shake-up from Disney with newly revealed schedule and episode titles
Read at PolygonMovie retailer Zavvi has entered administration, a legal concept similar to bankruptcy, and has warned customers not to place new orders.
Read at IGNStardew Valley creator ConcernedApe says his next game, Haunted Chocolatier, will play differently than his first cozy farming sim.
Read at Polygon