It took more than a year to make it happen, but the promised offline mode for The Crew 2 is finally here. “Hybrid Mode,” as it’s officially known, lets players switch between online and offline play at will, ensuring the game will remain accessible even when the remote servers are gone. A quick catch-up for…
Electronic Arts needed Battlefield 6 to be a hit, and it sure looks like it is. More than seven million copies of the game were sold over the first three days of release, making it “the biggest opening ever” for a Battlefield game. Along with the impressive sales milestone, the opening weekend also saw more…
Dead Space creator and former Striking Distance boss Glen Schofield is an advocate for AI use in game development and is not shy about it. During a keynote speech at Gamescom Asia x Thailand Games Show titled ‘Ten Ways I Come Up with Ideas’, Schofield championed generative AI as a brainstorming tool in game development,…
While they’ve been a terror for countless fledgling fortbuilders, goblin sieges in Dwarf Fortress become predictably trivial once you’ve got a good amount of mountainhome management under your belt. That’s about to change: On November 3, Dwarf Fortress gets its awaited Siege update, and a lot of dwarves are going to be a lot less…
The $55 billion acquisition of Electronic Arts by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and private equity firms is facing more pushback, as the United Videogame Workers-CWA union has put out a statement calling on regulators and lawmakers to “ensure that any path forward protects jobs, preserves creative freedom, and keeps decision-making accountable to the workers…
A Mario Kart Live anniversary blowout. We may only be a few months into a shiny, new Mario Kart game with lush open worlds and challenges aplenty, but as I scrap it out in yet another Knockout Tour or pootle about for P Switches and Peach Coins, I can’t help but yearn for something a…
Once again, Diablo 4 is about to change in a big way. The list of permanent updates Blizzard plans to implement in its next season bring foundational reworks to loot and combat that will trickle down into the rest of the game. All of it will be on the PTR next week to test out,…
So, Nvidia’s little gold box of pure AI power, the DGX Spark is finally out. But is it any good? The answer depends who’s doing the asking and what they’re asking of the Spark. By some common measures, it’s no faster than another small box based on AMD’s Strix Halo chip that’s available for about…
Tomonobu Itagaki has died at the age of 58 following a serious illness. Itagaki was an absolutely transformative figure in contemporary action games thanks to his work at Tecmo, the company he joined in 1992: he led Team Ninja and spearheaded the revival of Ninja Gaiden, as well as creating the Dead or Alive series….
Over the last few months we’ve seen the EU ramp up its efforts to tackle the possible harms of the online landscape, whether that’s the threats that AI poses or threats to minors. On the latter point, gacha and Overwatch gamers need to batten down the hatches because it looks like the political bloc might…