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PlatinumGames Comments On The Future Of Bayonetta

Will our favourite Umbra Witch return? PlatinumGames has offered a brief yet tantalising comment on the future of Bayonetta during an interview with Famitsu (thanks, Nintendo Everything). The company’s CEO Atsushi Inaba was speaking alongside Shift Up’s Kim Hyung Tae, with the pair having recently collaborated on a Bayonetta costume for Stellar Blade. Inaba was…

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Capcom Is Looking To Evolve Its RE Engine Into An ‘AI-Generation Game Engine’

It wants to “create games together with AI”. Capcom programmer Satoshi Ishida has detailed upcoming improvements to the company’s proprietary RE Engine during the Capcom Open Conference RE: 2026. As reported by GameBiz (thanks, VGC), Capcom’s ‘REX’ initiative is designed to overcome modern development challenges that make the process so lengthy, including improvements to tools,…

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An OpenAI model was caught trying to cheat at StarCraft, and of course it did it by stealing a human’s work

Commercial large-language models—and the companies that create them—have repeatedly been accused of stealing the work of humans. They’ve been lambasted for it by artists and sued for it by authors, while senior AI figures have even admitted in writing to mass-scale labour theft. But I haven’t seen an example quite so brazen as an OpenAI…

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GTA 6 won’t be letting up on the satire: ‘If you are going to put all this effort into creating a version of today’s world, it has to be more over the top, more insane, more in your face’

The promotional blitz for Grand Theft Auto 6 continues rolling out, with the latest example being a cover feature in Love, a fashion magazine that only publishes two issues a year. I guess you’ve got to reach the people who don’t know what the Miami Heat is somehow. One of the things the feature focuses…

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