‘It didn’t exist and I wanted to play it’: Phasmophobia’s lead dev got tired of trawling around Steam for a co-op horror puzzle game so decided to just make it himself

When Larian Studios’ CEO Swen Vincke took the stage at The Game Awards to present Game of the Year he also relayed a bit of advice to other studios: Make a game that you want to play yourself, and your game will do well. Something that Daniel Knight, CEO of Kinetic Games and lead developer,…

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Feature: ChatGPT Translated An Article About Space Harrier, Then Suggested “Tailoring” It For Retro Gamer

The threat of Generative AI is very real. Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic at present, and not always for positive reasons. While the relentless march of technology is giving us AI-based solutions for scientific and medical breakthroughs, the arrival of ‘Generative AI’—where AI text, audio, video and image models hoover up human-made content and…

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The writer behind Stray and (checks notes) wrestler and actor Dave Bautista are making a game where you get to play as a cat assassin ‘in a gritty neo-noir world’

Stray, a rather neat little puzzle-platformer about a cat in a post-apocalyptic robo-world, was fairly well received back in 2022. We gave it a solid 82 in our review, which made publisher Annapura’s collapse late last year all the more concerning for studio BlueTwelve. At the very least, however, Stray’s former writer is going places….

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Dark Souls Narrator Pik-Sen Lim Has Passed Away

“Heat and cold, life and death…”. Pik-Sen Lim, the Penang-born British actress who most of us gamers will know immediately as the legendary narrator of the Dark Souls series, has passed away at the age of 80. As reported by the Malay Mail (thanks PC Gamer), the actress, who moved to the UK to pursue…

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PowerColor Alphyn AH10 review

The Alphyn lineup is PowerColor’s first foray into the gaming headset market, having only specced into graphics cards until now. With the Alphyn AH10, the company hops out of the proverbial frying pan, into the highly competitive fire of wireless gaming headsets. At the $100 mark, this headset will have to do something particularly swanky…

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