After his shock retirement last year, legendary former Tekken boss has landed at one of Japan’s biggest fighting game publishers

Katsuhiro Harada spent 20 years as the figurehead of Tekken before his sudden “retirement” in December. He’s long been synonymous with Bandai Namco’s fighting series and it was honestly a shock—even to me, a non-fighting game guy—when he left. But it turns out Harada hasn’t left development nor fighting games: less than half-a-year since his…

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Elon Musk, Sam Altman and the world’s billionaires are terrified of the Google AI genius behind a 25-year-old computer game, because they think he might actually end up controlling god

I’ve been keeping an eye on the various documents released as part of the ongoing Musk vs Altman legal fight, which centres around OpenAI changing to a for-profit structure and Elon Musk’s belief he was deceived by Sam Altman. The documents, which consist mainly of emails and text exchanges between the various figures involved, turn…

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Path of Exile’s overwhelming complexity isn’t the real reason new players pass on it, director believes: ‘I think that PoE 1’s being such an old game is in itself the accessibility problem’

Talk to a Path of Exile player and they’ll tell you they’re still a new player after 3,000 hours. By all accounts, PoE is the most action RPG you can find. It has over a decade of systems layered on top of each other, a web of complexity that you’d probably only understand if you…

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One of the best rated games on Steam this week is an action platformer where you can parry a giant industrial digger with a chainsaw

If there’s one thing I know about human nature, it’s that we have a universal affection for a giant, derelict megastructure. Who among us, when presented a hauntingly massive brutalist shape, isn’t possessed by a profound, inchoate yearning to clamber all over it like a sort of reverent bug? Fulfilling that fundamental drive is the…

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