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The Sims players among us have been gazing cautiously at inZOI, a new neighbourhood and life management game from Krafton. I am cautious for essentially two reasons. One is that the game makes use of live generative AI: you can stuff its jaws with text, images and video to create items such as outfits and animate your pet humans, here known as Zois. Your Zoi's "actions and thoughts" are also based on "small machine learning" tech, which as the name implies is a teenier species of generative AI t...

So, combined it sold more of four different GPUs than a single $1,600 card.

Stardew Valley truly pioneered the cozy game genre. It has everything from crafting to farming, and from dynamic villager relations to fully-rounded romance. As a result, it feels like every life game has to have those exact same elements - realistically, we all just want to smooch our favorite villagers. Mirthwood, a farming sim that transports Stardew's traditional mechanics into a hand-drawn, Fable-esque world, has sadly been lacking in the marriage department, but not anymore. Rejoice, my ho...

Soon you’ll be able to don Gordon Freeman’s HEV suit in full ray-traced glory, smashing your trusty crowbar into headcrabs with realistic shadows and reflections, as Nvidia has just announced that a playable Half-Life 2 RTX demo will be available to download in March 2025. Not only that, but if you already own Half-Life 2 (and sort that out if you don’t), the demo will be a free download. The launch comes as Nvidia announces that RTX Remix is now officially out of open beta, with a host of new n...

PC game modding is massive, with over 5 billion mods downloaded annually. Mods push graphics forward with each GPU generation, extend a game’s lifespan with new content and attract new players. NVIDIA RTX Remix is a modding platform for RTX AI PCs that lets modders capture game assets, automatically enhance materials with generative AI tools Read Article

AI is leveling up the world’s most beloved games, as the latest advancements in neural rendering, NVIDIA RTX and digital human technologies equip game developers to take innovative leaps in their work. At this year’s GDC conference, running March 17-21 in San Francisco, NVIDIA is revealing new AI tools and technologies to supercharge the next Read Article

Bundle up — GeForce NOW is bringing a flurry of Blizzard titles to its ever-expanding library. Prepare to weather epic gameplay in the cloud, tackling the genres of real-time strategy (RTS), multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) and more. Classic Blizzard titles join GeForce NOW, including Heroes of the Storm, Warcraft Rumble and three titles from Read Article

Samsung is changing its revenue-sharing policy and reducing its cut for certain apps so that developers and publishers can get more money from sales. As part of its announcements ahead of this year's upcoming Game Developers Conference (GDC), the company said that it's implementing an 80/20 revenue share model for games on the Galaxy Store. Previously, Samsung had a 70/30 sharing model, wherein it took 30 percent of an app's revenue. The new model also applies to games built on the company's clo...

It's time to dust off the ol' crowbar.

We’ve all been there: playing an RPG in a fictional world when suddenly you’re lost in a swamp of made-up proper nouns. Where is that place? What is that faction’s whole deal again? And what exactly is going on in this side quest that I started a week ago? Avowed has a surprisingly elegant solution....

Pocketpair have announced that sometime real soon you'll be able to team up with players across different platforms in the popular monster catcher Palworld.

Just announced from Red Thread Games (Dreamfall Chapters, Draugen, Dustborn) is Hello Sunshine, a mysterious survival game where you're following a truly massive robot and keeping to their shadow to not get fried by the sun.

At WWDC 2024, Apple announced Swift Assist, an AI-powered coding companion integrated into Xcode 16 that's designed to assist developers by generating code from natural language prompts. At the time, Apple said Swift Assist would be coming "later this year." We're now three months into 2025, and it's nowhere to be seen. Swift Assist (Image: Apple) Unlike Apple Intelligence, Swift Assist never appeared in beta. Apple hasn't announced that it's been delayed or cancelled. The company has since rele...

The Mac Studio is Apple’s ultimate performance computer, but this year’s model came with a twist: It’s equipped with either an M4 Max or an M3 Ultra processor. The latter might seem like a step backward, since nearly all Macs (except the Mac Pro) are now equipped with M4 chips. However, the M3 Ultra is indeed Apple’s best-performing processor, which makes the new Mac Studio its fastest computer ever. While the M3 Ultra model appears highly capable for creative pros and engineers, it starts at $4...

Looks like an engineering sample.

I love a game that features some kind of cooking element, so I was quite pleased yesterday when Humble Games revealed they're publishing Town Of Zoz, a new action RPG that's all about fighting off rats from eating your crops, taking down baddies to gather up ingredients, and using said ingredients and crops to make some tasty meals. It's got wonderfully vibrant art and animation. The announcement trailer quickly won me over with the choppy, almost stop-motion-like quality of certain character mo...

That's a lotta Rings. If you cast your mind back to last year's arrival of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 in cinemas, you might remember that SEGA created an all-new Genesis cart as a neat bit of promotion. The cart itself didn't contain anything too special (character images, posters and a small minigame), but it was a working cart and it was rare. So you know what that means... Yep, one of these promotional carts has now popped up on eBay with an eye-watering $28,000 price tag attached. The seller, grj4...

The Warhammer 40k Space Marine 2 PTS has arrived, and you can get an early look at some of the big beats of patch 7.0 right now. The new public test server lets anyone dive in and try the next Space Marine 2 update either solo or in multiplayer. To start with, Saber Interactive is trialling its upcoming overhaul, which includes a new PvE map, adjustments to weapon restrictions and perks, PvP matchmaking improvements, and a new secondary weapon, the iconic 40k Inferno Pistol.

Sony has quietly expanded the cloud streaming feature on its PS Portal handheld to include a number of games from its Classics Catalogue.

Blizzard's doing it right.

I went to CES with Engadget for the first time this year and, among the robots, laptops, TVs and more robots, the most exciting products I saw were ones trying to make our homes more eco-friendly in the most low-effort ways possible. I saw an induction stove, a window-mounted heat pump, a battery back-up system and a few other promising appliances — these are user installable, work with standard 120V outlets and do their part in lowering a home’s carbon footprint. A couple are coming to market t...

Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time series is no stranger to making bold calls about its source material. While it more or less follows the same arc as the books, the first episodes of season 1 alone opened up the world to a totally new interpretation of prophecy and character potential. Since then, it has...

A few weeks back, a new AI generated content disclosure appeared on the Call Of Duty Steam page, reading "our team uses generative AI tools to help develop some in game assets". This followed several months of community speculation over whether the FPS was using such tools to fever-dream up cosmetics, and a Wired report (paywalled) in which an anonymous artist alleged that the 'Yokai's Wrath' premium pack used genAI assets, via PC Gamer. As a disclosure, it's better than nothing, but only barely...

While never officially announced by Bethesda, rumours of an Unreal Engine 5 remake of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion have been circling the proverbial dialogue pie since 2023, surfacing first via an alleged developer, then leaked court documents. Edwin wrote about its potential improvements to combat here, while noting that the same leaked documents also mentioned both a Fallout 3 remaster and Dishonored 3. This might well either prime you with a healthy dose of scepticism, or else have you runn...

Spectre Divide developer Mountaintop is taking the game offline, and the studio will be "closing its doors" at the end of this week.

I couldn't tell you why Nintendo has left Star Fox to rot with the likes of Kid Icarus, while other series like Advance Wars have made a comeback (no shade to Advance Wars fans), but it has. Chuhai Labs are here to save the day with Wild Blue, an upcoming on-rails shooter just revealed yesterday at the Humble Games Showcase. The teaser itself didn't show a lick of gameplay, but it's worth noting that Chuhai Labs were founded by Giles Goddard, one of the programmers for the original Star Fox on S...

From Balatro and Zet Zillions to Cobalt Core and Wildfrost, we’ve seen a vast expansion of the best roguelike deckbuilders in recent years. But all eyes are on Slay the Spire 2. The pioneering genre champion remains a tough act to top even to this day, and its sequel promises to build on developer Mega Crit’s creation with new classes, more cards, and a wealth of enemies to put your decks to the test. In a new blog, the studio reveals how it’s splashing a tiny bit of RPG into StS 2 with the intr...

It's a fact: Pokémon Go is much easier to play in a city or large town. There are more gyms and PokéStop locations to interact with, more Pokémon that spawn, more fellow players to battle alongside.

Some good industry news for you today. Moon Studios who made Ori and the Blind Forest, Ori and the Will of the Wisps and their current Early Access game No Rest for the Wicked have gone "fully independent".

Let me entertain a world where we play old FF14 all over again.

It hasn't even begun airing yet, but The Last of Us season two is already breaking records.

Bazzite Linux, a popular choice for people wanting to put Linux on their handhelds or living room PC, is getting two new editions designed to help developers.

Balatro developer Locathunk has responded to a debate on AI art, stating "I think it does real harm to artists of all kinds".

We’ve uncovered a genuinely incredible gaming monitor deal on Amazon right now, enabling you to pick up a great screen for just $99, saving you 38% on the usual price. Not only does this offer enable you to get a new monitor with a 165Hz refresh rate for under 100 bucks, but it even supports Asus’ Extreme Low Motion Blur (ELMB) tech, which we’ve found makes for really clear action in games. This price of $99 is the lowest we’ve ever seen for this Asus monitor, and represents incredible value for...

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has issued its final verdict on the state of the country's mobile browser market, concluding that Apple's policies are largely responsible for hampering competition and innovation. The CMA's independent inquiry group's investigation found that Apple's requirement for all iOS browsers to use its WebKit engine is stifling competition, and effectively prevents rival browsers from introducing unique features or optimizations on iPhones and iPads, rega...