June 22, 2026
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Nobody believes Blizzard meant to give Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred players a 900% gold boost, but that hasn’t stopped them from exploiting it until someone sticks a decimal point in there

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Diablo 4 has had its fair share of bugs that players have gleefully exploited. If it’s not some item that gives you the power to deal infinite damage, it’s a dungeon dropping too much loot. Diablo is a complicated videogame; unforeseen interactions are kind of inevitable. But that’s not how I’d describe the latest thing…

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Anticipated supercannon sim PVKK delayed until 2027, but for the kind of reason you want to hear

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PVKK, or Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant if you’re particular, is a game we’ve been eagerly awaiting: It was named one of our most anticipated games during last year’s PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted rundown, largely by virtue of how badly we want to fiddle with the many deliciously tactile switches, levers, knobs, cranks, and buttons it offers for…

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GTA 6’s multi-billion-dollar budget is ‘a high-stakes game for big boys only,’ Take-Two boss says, but he’s ‘cool with it’

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In a recent interview with Bloomberg, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick spoke about the immense pressure for the game to succeed, given the publisher’s massive investment into Rockstar’s long-awaited crime caper. He described the risk the company’s taking in a way that, unfortunately, I can only describe as going kinda hard. “Development costs have gone up…

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Sony Interactive Entertainment chief says AI will enable ‘gaming experiences like never before,’ and I wonder: How long are these guys going to talk about it before we actually start seeing it?

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Sony Interactive Entertainment president and CEO Hideaki Nishino used Sony’s latest quarterly financial report to share some thoughts on the role that AI will play in the future of game development, and if you’re thinking that he might temper his enthusiasm in the face of consumer discontent, all I can say is—guess again. Nishino is…

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Arrowhead addresses the Helldivers 2 community as recent Steam reviews slump to Mostly Negative: ‘We want to be clearer about what we’re working on and what’s coming next’

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It was only in February that we reported that Helldivers 2 was in the best shape it had been in since launch. The siege of Cyberstan galactic campaign was the glittering jewel in the game’s live-service storytelling crown, delivering new toys like the Bastion tank and colossal new enemies called Vox Engines, as well as…

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Microsoft might be all-in on OpenAI now, but back in 2018 thought it was just ‘motivated by a need to show how Al can crush humans’

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Remember when OpenAI created a bot that could beat humans at Dota 2? As PCG reported last week, that was because Elon Musk had personally called Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to secure a massive discount on access to Azure, the company’s cloud computing platform. Now a new document released thanks to the ongoing Musk vs…

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