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Project Windless creative director says the developers chose a 9-foot warlike rooster goliath as their protagonist because literally ‘every candidate’ interviewed to work on the game wanted to play as one: ‘All of them—and we were like, OK’

In Sony’s February State of Play, Krafton Montreal revealed Project Windless, an open world action RPG set in the world of acclaimed Korean fantasy series, Lee Youngdo’s The Bird That Drinks Tears. With the books’ first English translation being published later this year, Project Windless will be the first exposure for many in the West…

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Microsoft’s execs can’t stop hooting and hollering about AI, but Xbox’s new overlords promise ‘We’ve got no pressure’ from up top that would ‘flood our ecosystem with slop’

We had one of those weeks where decades happen recently: not only did we get hit by Sony’s closure of Bluepoint, but the next day clocked us with the retirement of Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, who’s dipping out of the company after almost 40 years. Xbox president Sarah Bond, who was expected to take…

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You might be as surprised as I was to learn that Assassin’s Creed Mirage is one of the few games to use AI neural texture compression—the only one, I think

If you’ve been thinking, like I have, that we’re still some way off seeing AI being used in games for more than just upscaling or frame generation, then it’s time to think again. That’s because it turns out that Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Mirage is one of only a tiny number of games to use neural…

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An Overwatch bug which allowed you to crash the game by typing in chat has been fixed, so don’t make Blizzard regret letting you talk again: ‘That bug accidentally made OW a safe place’

Usually, Overwatch‘s bugs are pretty harmless—like Ramattra’s occasionally wonky Nemesis form—but there have been some game-breaking ones lately. Just a week or two ago, progression systems were completely borked, with Blizzard issuing apology lootboxes and event items to all. Frustrating as it was, it was nowhere near as game-breaking as yesterday’s discovery. Quite literally, in…

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New Intel graphics driver claims a remarkable 35% performance boost for Panther Lake’s nifty little iGPU in Witcher 3 at 1080p

Intel is making some eye-popping claims for its latest graphics driver release for Arc graphics. According to the official release notes, the Intel Core Ultra series 3—otherwise known as Panther Lake—benefits from a fully 35% uplift in Witcher 3 performance. Specifically, that’s 35% when running at 1080p High, which should be a pretty relevant setting…

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