2025

Electronic Arts has signed a deal with Stability AI, the company behind the Stable Diffusion generative AI image maker, to—deep breath—”co-develop transformative AI models, tools, and workflows that empower our artists, designers, and developers to reimagine how content is built.” “For more than 40 years, EA has led through technological shifts across interactive entertainment, redefining…

We’ve known for ages now that, for Microsoft, the age of platform exclusive games is over. Xbox president Sarah Bond called exclusives “antiquated” just this week. But to me, it didn’t really feel over until I saw a PS5 logo in the trailer for Halo: Campaign Evolved, a remake of the most legendary Xbox game…

Every year we pick 100 games to hail as the best PC games that you can play today. It’s an inherently fraught endeavor. 100 is quite a large number if you’re talking about how many creepy Victorian dolls someone owns, but it’s not all that many PC games. Nearly 20,000 games released on Steam last…

On an almost daily basis, a terminally tech-brained individual insists that AI will determine the future of human creativity if we simply believe hard enough. Today, that soothsayer is Matt Shumer, an investor who offered a demonstration of his vision for AI’s videogame development potential—and was quickly blasted for it, because the vision sucks to…

Content warning: This article includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts, help is available from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (US), Crisis Services Canada (CA), Samaritans (UK), Lifeline (AUS), and other hotlines. Earlier this week news broke of the death of Daniel ‘Danya’ Naroditsky, a 29 year-old chess…

During Friday’s Halo World Championship esports tournament on Friday, Halo Studios was meant to unveil its next project. But the Xbox store got to it first: Halo Campaign Evolved has appeared on the site, revealing that Microsoft is remaking the iconic FPS 14 years after the last time it remade it. “Halo: Campaign Evolved is…

Today EA spilled the beans on Battlefield 6’s first major patch arriving October 28, including tweaks to weapon bloom, movement, and the sun. That’s all well and good, but I want to know when challenges will be less aggravating. The answer? Not now, but maybe next time. “We’ve seen all your feedback about the challenges…