March 12, 2026
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Highguard developers were surprised by layoff notices, new report says: They thought they’d have at least a few months to work on it but when Tencent ended funding, there was nothing left

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As the free-to-play multiplayer shooter Highguard continues to sink, a new Bloomberg report based on interviews with 10 former employees of developer Wildlight Entertainment provides a closer look at where it all went so badly wrong. The skeleton of the story is well known: A surprise reveal at the 2025 Game Awards that didn’t make…

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May I have the envelope, please? Stardew Valley will add Clint and Sandy as marriage candidates in its 1.7 update

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Happy birthday, Stardew Valley. Today Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone’s beloved farming sim celebrated its 10th anniversary with a short half-hour retrospective and the long-awaited reveal of its upcoming marriage candidates. That’s right, you’re getting two new singles to woo when Stardew Valley 1.7 adds romances for Clint and Sandy. Stardew Valley Guides (Image credit: ConcernedApe) Stardew…

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Grim Dawn marks its 10th anniversary with a triumphal update on its final expansion: ‘Grim Dawn will not be going out with a bang, it will be a tremendous roar’

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I haven’t touched Grim Dawn in ages, but it will always have a special place in my heart. I first wrote about it 16 years ago (for a completely different site), when Crate Entertainment was fiddling around with something called “crowd contributed” game development: Give people an opportunity to pay now so they can play…

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Towerborne’s Full Game Update is Available Today

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Category: Games February 26, 2026 Towerborne’s Full Game Update is Available Today Danielle Partis, Xbox Wire Editor Summary Following its Xbox Game Preview release this past April, Towerborne is now available on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Steam, PlayStation 5, Game Pass (Premium and Ultimate), is handheld verified and supports Xbox Play Anywhere. Towerborne will be available…

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He directed 4 Far Cry games, but Project Windless is offering its lead developer a chance he’s been waiting for his whole career: ‘I never had the opportunity to work on a medieval fantasy’

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Based on Lee Youngdo’s fantasy series The Bird That Drinks Tears—novels being published in English for the first time this June—Project Windless and its big, beautiful bird berserker will offer an international audience an opportunity to explore a unique and celebrated fiction firsthand. But for creative director and Krafton Montreal studio head Patrik Méthé, Project…

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Say hello (and thank you) to Patty, Burger King’s new AI chatbot, which will live inside its employees’ headsets to monitor their etiquette and branch performance

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Of all the places I thought AI would knock on the door of, like a grim reaper, I never expected it to be Burger King. Tech, videogames, movies, sure—they’re all about cutting-edge technology, even if it’s misguided and self-destructive—but a fast food chain? As reported by The Verge, Burger King is launching its own AI…

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Anthropic ditches its defining safety promise to pause dangerous AI development because it’s basically pointless when everybody else is ‘blazing ahead’

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Given the way the AI industry is going these days, the following news probably isn’t a huge surprise. But it’s unnerving all the same. Announced in a new blog post, Anthropic, arguably the sole remaining example among the major AI players that really bigs up its safety responsibilities, has ditched its core commitment to “pause”…

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