Fallout 76 is free to play until Feb 5, but if you want that sick NCR power armor from the Fallout show, it’s gonna cost you

The Fallout TV series sure is good at making us want to play Fallout games, huh? A single moment in this week’s episode, where a sick suit of NCR power armor was unveiled alongside the stirring Fallout theme, had me itching mightily to reinstall a Fallout game—any Fallout game, really—for a fresh playthrough. If you…

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Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: ‘I’d rather quit the industry than use generative AI’

According to a survey of game developers published by GDC—the annual industry conference happening in San Francisco this March—33% of game dev professionals use generative AI for their work. This hasn’t changed much since 2021, when GDC reported that 31% of devs use generative AI, but how they feel about it has dramatically shifted. This…

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Nearly one-third of non-US game developers have cancelled plans to travel to the country because of immigration and gender identity policies

The situation in the US right now is not great, particularly for non-citizens. A promised crackdown on so-called “illegal immigrants” by US president Donald Trump has become a violent free-for-all resulting in multiple killings that the government and security forces have insisted were justified, despite sometimes ample evidence to the contrary. Some countries over the…

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After a server glitch, Final Fantasy 11 is dispatching Game Masters to manually assassinate bugged monsters just so the game knows they’re really dead: ‘God personally stepping in to correct the world itself’

As it nears its 24th birthday, Final Fantasy 11 is still quietly chugging along. And while FF14’s older, weirder MMO sibling has settled into a comfortable rhythm of incremental maintenance updates, its more than two decades of layered expansions and legacy systems still manage to produce some fascinating weirdness. Sometimes that means needing to navigate…

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