As Krafton evolves into an ‘AI-first company’, the boss of the recently acquired Last Epoch studio says he doesn’t think the ‘doom and gloom’ is warranted

Nothing about PUBG and Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton’s recent decision to become an “AI-first company” look good. The company plans to drop over 130 billion won ($88 million) into the project, recently stopped hiring new employees, and started a voluntary resignation program for its employees in South Korea this week. Far down the ladder from…

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I can’t live without the Steam Deck’s trackpads anymore, and I hope the Steam Controller forces the competition to adopt them

Of the three hardware announcements Valve made yesterday, the Steam Controller is probably the least exciting at face value. It looks a whole lot like the original Steam controller, which hardly set the world ablaze. Also, it’s a gamepad. There are countless PC gamepads on the market, and many are better than what Microsoft or…

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‘Do people even go to the main menu anymore in their games?’ The Outer Worlds 2’s player-roasting main menu was almost sunk by console gamer habits

The Outer Worlds 2’s main menu is the epitome of “Oh hey, that’s neat!” All of your options are structured as a dialogue with an animatronic Moon Man, the in-game corporate mascot who serves as the series’ own Vault Boy in real life. Things get really interesting, though, when both he and the environment around…

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For the third time this year, Crystal Dynamics is making layoffs: Nearly 30 people are being put out of work ‘to optimize the continued development of our flagship Tomb Raider game’

For the third time this year, Tomb Raider studio Crystal Dynamics has laid off employees: The company announced today that it’s making a “difficult but necessary” reorganization of its studios and team, and that as a result nearly 30 people will be put out of work. The cuts will be made “across various departments and…

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Russia unveils humanoid robot to the Rocky theme and it immediately faceplants on-stage: ‘At first there was a moment of silence’

One of Russia’s first humanoid AI robots was unveiled on-stage in Moscow on Tuesday this week—and after shuffling on-stage to that Soviet-era classic, the Rocky theme tune, it almost immediately faceplanted. But the reason you should watch the below video is not merely the delicious AI schadenfreude: it’s what the humans do. The robot is…

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Rockstar is now under pressure from UK Parliament as protests grow and 220 employees demand fired workers be reinstated

Rockstar employees may be “scared, hurt, and feel uncertain” following the sudden dismissal of more than 30 people last week, but they’re not so frightened that they’re unwilling to speak out. The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain says more than 200 workers at the company have signed a letter to senior management demanding the…

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World of Warcraft director ‘doesn’t expect blind faith’ in its plans to unshackle the MMO from popular combat mods: ‘We take none of this lightly’

As World of Warcraft’s next expansion nears release, players are preparing for the first time in the MMO’s history where combat mods, or addons, won’t offer much help. The most popular ones simply won’t work when Midnight arrives as part of Blizzard’s plan to level the playing field for all players. Unsurprisingly, this hasn’t gone…

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