Phasmophobia’s roadmap includes evidence of a 1.0 launch in 2026: a player character overhaul, new event, and Horror 2.0

Phasmophobia’s early access build celebrates its sixth anniversary as a viral ghost-hunting breakout on Steam later this year, but that’s assuming we make it to September before the 1.0 launch. If Kinetic Games’ latest roadmap stays on track, then we’ll be cutting it close, as Phasmophobia is planning for its 1.0 launch with a horror…

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Random: Bubbles Or Hugh? The Tomodachi Life Nintendo Direct May Have Been Different In Your Region

Carlo is everywhere, though. Well folks, the Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream Nintendo Direct has won over many hearts, with its bizarre humour, huge amount of freedom and flexibility with customisation, and even a a dramatic romantic storyline. We fell in love with Hugh Morris, the clown-like character from the Nintendo of America presentation (who…

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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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