Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’s director had 2 scrapped scenes from the game’s ending, gives props to mocap actors who ‘saved’ it at the last minute

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is maybe one of my favourite games of this year—it’s certainly in the running—which I hope reassures you that I mean this with all the love in the world. It surprises me not one itty-bitty bit that Guillaume Broche, creative director of the game, says he “likes really sad stories”. That’s…

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AMD’s tiny FSR 3 update aims to improve upscaling quality but also lays the foundation for adding Redstone AI tech to games

Software updates usually only grab news headlines when it’s a major new version, bringing something special or different for users to enjoy. So a minor revision by AMD to its FSR toolkit wouldn’t normally be of note, but this one is actually special, despite the fractional change in version number. With this update, FSR will…

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GTA publisher boss says he’s ‘running scared’ despite billions in the bank and a GTA 6-sized financial nuke on the horizon: ‘We are looking over our shoulders’

Strauss Zelnick—CEO of GTA publisher Take-Two—has revised his expectations. On the back of stronger-than-expected financial results for its first quarter of financial year 2026 (which takes place, in our mortal realm, in the actual year 2025), the company now anticipates making between $6.1 and $6.2 billion for the overall financial year, up from its prior…

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Battlefield 6 requires Secure Boot to run and it’s coming to more games soon, including Call of Duty Black Ops 7: here’s what it is, why Linux gamers are mad about it, and how to enable it

If you’ve been trying to access the Battlefield 6 open beta and can’t make it past an error screen, it’s probably down to Secure Boot. A security feature on Window PCs, Secure Boot is intended to keep malicious software away from the OS during the boot process. It’s also what EA taps into for its…

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Poll: How Do You Pronounce “Amiga”?

Ah-mee-gah? Ah-mee-ger? Ah-mee-guh? Every now and then, you become aware of gaping schisms within the gaming community that had previously gone unnoticed, and it would appear that this is one of those weeks, as I’ve just learned that (apparently) not everybody utters the word “Amiga” in the same way. The topic was raised on the…

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