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Ex-Overwatch Boss Jeff Kaplan Says AI Can’t Replace ‘Human Spirit’

Five years after leaving Blizzard, Kaplan was on a podcast talking about the future of games

Kotaku • Mar 12, 2026 • Kenneth Shepard
PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

Absolute Batman Drops Three of Its Biggest Twists Yet As the Dark Knight's World Crumbles

The latest chapter of Absolute Batman delivers three of the series biggest twists yet. Here's what you need to know.

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

Silent Hill 2 Remake passes 5m copies sold, so Konami's hosting a big ol' sale on the PlayStation store

The Silent Hill 2 Remake, created by Bloober Team in partnership with Konami, has just surpassed five million sales wor...

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

Oscars Producers Tease Marvel Reunion 'For the Superhero Fans'

Oscar producers Katy Mullan and Raj Kapoor have opened up about some special moments fans and audiences can expect from ...

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

We Finally Have Our First Look at Crimson Desert Running on PS5 Pro — but We're Still Waiting on Base PS5 and Xbox Series X and S

After some fans expressed concern about the performance of ambitious new open world game Crimson Desert on consoles, we ...

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

A week from its release date, Crimson Desert swallows some Denuvo DRM

Well, a week out from the gargantuan merging of MMO and RPG bits' release, we finally know what Crimson Desert is. It's...

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Fan Fest Nights to Debut Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon the Miracle: Moon Palace Chapter Deluxe CG Anime Short Film

IGN can exclusively reveal that Universal Fan Fest Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood will see the debut of Pretty Gu...

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

PC games revenue will outgrow consoles by 2028, analyst predicts

That's assuming the RAMpocalypse doesn't revise those estimates in the meantime. ...

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

New benchmarks show the iPhone chip in the cut-price Apple MacBook Neo beating every single x86 PC processor for single-core performance

And it's not even Apple's fastest phone chip. ...

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

No one at Embark could describe Arc Raiders before its extraction shooter pivot, leading to 'playtest battles' of competing directions for the game

"A lot of games would have been cancelled at this point." ...

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

I sure hope the Resident Evil Requiem DLC is all about Grace, the best thing to happen to Resi in years

I adored Resident Evil 7. After the series' identity had slowly taken on water over the course of the last decade or so...

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

Crimson Desert Reveals It Will Use Controversial DRM Just A Week Before Launch

The upcoming open-world RPG will use Denuvo on Steam, angering fans who already pre-ordered

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

Tech Boss of Developer Sony Is Shutting Down Thinks PlayStation Has Pulled Back From PC in Response to Steam Machine

Tech boss of developer Sony is shutting down thinks PlayStation has pulled back from PC not in response to the next-gen ...

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

'There is no scenario where memory prices correct in the second half' of 2027, according to new market research

It's times like these we'll long to forget. ...

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

Phil Spencer Was Good for Xbox, but His Legacy Is Complicated

Was Phil Spencer good for Xbox? Whatever you think of the retiring boss’s decade-plus tenure, there was rarely a dull ...

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

New Disclosure Day Trailer Teases Their Arrival and a Whole Lot More

A new Disclosure Day trailer has added even more mystery to Steven Spielberg’s upcoming summer sci-fi blockbuster, tea...

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

This horror game where you're a conscious nuclear missile boasts 'one handed mouse only controls', leaving me with assumptions that proved incorrect when I had to saw my own limbs off

Brainshell's demo made me do awful things to myself. ...

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

Dispatch's character and concept artist was picked up on ArtStation 'as a last resort', a temporary solution 'to get us through the pitch phase', before defining the entire game's artstyle

Emergency call. ...

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Dispatch Lead BAFTA Game Awards 2026 Nominations

The beloved Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is unsurprisingly up for yet more prizes, as it leads this year's BAFTA Games Aw...

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

Battlefield 6 Free Trial Gives Players a Taste of Season 2 Maps and Modes Starting Next Week

EA will soon launch a new Battlefield 6 free trial that gives players a taste of the Hagental Base map and Nightfall mod...

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

Fans Think Resident Evil’s Leon Would Be A Cornball In Every Universe

‘I don’t think we’re gonna click,’ Leon said while suplexing a Last of Us clicker

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

PEGI announce plans to slap higher age ratings on games with loot boxes, daily quests, and paid battle passes soon

The folks behind PEGI - the age rating system used for games in Europe outside of Germany - have announced plans to upd...

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

Bluepoint tech boss suggests Sony's scared of Valve, not Microsoft, and that's why it's pulling back from PC: 'It would be quite ironic if Valve ultimately ended up winning the console war'

Me? I just think everyone's intimidated by the raw power and magnetism of Linux. ...

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

Marvel Rivals Devs On ‘Gooner’ Skins: ‘We Didn’t Do That Kind Of Content On Purpose’

We sat down with NetEase's creative director and its marketing lead to discuss OP heroes, 'gooner' content, and more

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

Mega Crit unveils Slay the Spire 2 plushies and oh dear I've bought two of them

Mega Crit has unveiled three new Slay the Spire 2 plushies and oh dear I've already ordered two of them. Read more

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

Game dev union members marched at GDC to propose a 'Game Workers' Bill of Rights'

The UVW-CWA is envisioning a base standard set of working conditions for all game develope...

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

Asus thinks 'high-end brand value and high-end product mix' will help it weather the memory crisis alongside AI

AI giveth and AI taketh away. ...

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

Ever complained about Overwatch matchmaking? There's a chance Jeff Kaplan checked your account and all he has to say is: 'There's gotta be winners and there's gotta be losers'

In short: git gud. ...

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

Forza Horizon 6’s Tokyo City Is So Big and Detailed That it Had its Own Development Team | IGN First

How Forza Horizon 6’s Japan shapes to be bigger and better than anything that has come before it.

PC Gaming Mar 12, 2026

New Pokémon TCG Chaos Rising Expansion Officially Announced After Leaks, Preorders Start Soon

The new Pokémon TCG expansion, Chaos Rising, has been officially announced after leaks preemtively revealed the set ear...