007 First Light, Hitman Developer IO Interactive Announces Layoffs After 'Relationship With an External Partner' on Fantasy Project Ends

007 First Light and Hitman developer IO Interactive has announced layoffs after an unexpected setback revolving around i...

Open source game engine Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions: 'We can’t trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it'

At risk of drowning in AI slop code, Godot is firming up its contribution requirements. ...

Report Says Dishonored, Blade Developer Is Also On Xbox’s Chopping Block

Xbox reportedly wants to sell off the studio and cancel the project

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Xbox Unions In The Dark Despite Negotiating Layoff Protections For Months: ‘We Understand That Businesses Have To Business, But The Uncertainty Is Maddening’

'We just want to know that they're like making a real effort to keep our jobs and to acknowledge that we are people with...

Hitman Studio Still ‘100%’ Committed To New Fantasy Game Despite Layoffs After Xbox Abandons It

Project Fantasy is a new IP the Hitman studio was working on

Splatoon Raiders Feels Like It’s Shaping Up To Be The Single-Player Nintendo Shooter We Sickos Have Been Waiting For

Even if the game revolves around traveling to strangers' islands and stealing their stuff

Netflix Using AI to Resurrect Gene Wilder's Voice for Willy Wonka Reality Series The Golden Ticket

Netflix has used AI technology to revive the voice of Gene Wilder for its new Willy Wonka reality show, Wonka's The Gold...

Dragon Age Lead Writer Condemns AI As A ‘Virulent Plague’

David Gaider doesn't hold back when explaining why genAI is so bad for games development

Microsoft Reportedly Considering Canceling Marvel's Blade and Shutting Arkane Down

Microsoft is reportedly considering canceling Marvel’s Blade and shutting its developer, Arkane, down.

Guns of Eschaton is a wild west soulslike FPS and posthumous release from the art director of Half-Life 2

Last year, the art director behind titans of visual design like Half-Life 2 and Dishonored, Viktor Antonov, died at th...

I attended a Tomb Raider and Horizon developer's boss design masterclass and came away both weary and enchanted

The following sparkling insights about boss battle design are from Marcin Matuszczyk, principal gameplay designer on T...

Love and Deepspace Cancels New Wolfy Love Interest Valko

Otome game Love and Deepspace will no longer add new love interest Valko to its roster of potential partners.

Before his death in 2025, Half-Life 2 art director Viktor Antonov worked on one last game: A Wild West FPS roguelike that's 'coming soon' to Steam

Antonov's bold vision helped define games including Half-Life 2, Dishonored, Weird West, a...

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Contracts Are Already Being Cut At Xbox On The Eve Of Mass Layoffs

Xbox's brutal reorganization impacts more than just its own house

Valve says it is 'definitely' investigating an Arm-based gaming future on top of its work on FEX

Flexing ahead. ...

ESA Claims Private Minecraft Servers Are 'Illegal' and 'Piracy' in Stop Killing Games Hearing

The ESA has made the head-scratching claim that private Minecraft servers are "illegal" and considered a form of "piracy...

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered's physical Switch 2 release has the full game on a cartridge, and we've finally got a release date, too

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered was one of 2025's biggest hits after a sudden shadow drop, especially in the U...

Minions & Monsters Review

Who would have thought it, but the seventh movie in the Despicable Me franchise may be the best one yet, as Minions & Mo...

Love And Deepspace Devs Decide To Cancel New Werewolf Love Interest After Fans Reportedly Send Them Cow Shit

Some of the extra pissed off fans lodged their complaints about the new love interest by sending turds to the game's hea...

Everything Coming to HBO Max in July

What's worth watching on HBO Max this month.

I can barely afford AMD and Nvidia's current 4 nm chips, so I'm not sure what to make of IBM's new sub-1 nm technology

Moore's Law might not be dead, but it is kinda zombified. ...

Nivalis has a new name and a release date that will make your autumn backlog even bigger

It's looking like autumn will be a nice little season for the cyberpunk genre. There's the long awaited Cyberpunk: Edg...

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Nintendo Switch 2 Physical Edition Includes a Proper Cartridge, Bethesda Confirms Alongside Release Date and Technical Specs

Bethesda will launch The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for Nintendo Switch 2 on August 11, and its physical edition will in...

Star Wars Monopoly Is Fun, Unless You Are Playing Against Chewbacca Who Is An Overpowered Nuclear Bomb

Ubisoft's new Star Wars-themed Monopoly game is fine enough, but it needs more options

Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game Has Me Excited to Get into the Lab | IGN Preview

Thirty minutes isn’t nearly enough time to tackle everything Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game has to offer, but it wa...

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered Is Finally Has A Switch 2 Release Date And It’s Not Far Away

And the Adoring Fan is here to cheer you on

The latest SteamOS beta update includes a performance boost for GPUs with limited VRAM, though devices with iGPUs probably won't see any gains

But if the device is a certain Machine, then this is definitely good news. ...