Take-Two boss says he’s not interested in putting ads into premium games: ‘It would seem unfair’

Industry analyst Matthew Ball, who recently released a “State of Videogaming in 2026” report saying games are “losing the attention war,” also predicted that in-game advertising will become more prominent in PC and console games, as developers and publishers seek out new revenue streams. He reiterated that point in a subsequent interview with The Game…

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Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick cannot fathom anyone not wanting to play GTA 6: ‘I think we’ll be able to engage every appropriate individual’

We’re starting to zero in on the release of Grand Theft Auto 6. We’ve been given the run-around over the last year or so with reschedules and delays, but now we’ve got the November 19 release date—for consoles, we’re still waiting for word on a PC version—and Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has assured fans that…

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Mewgenics’ latest update makes one of its most unpredictable fights a bit fairer, and includes maybe the best patch note of all time: ‘Fixed case where a non-binary cat with dwarfism would crash the game if playing in Brazilian Portuguese’

The stream of post-launch patches for Mewgenics has been pretty constant since its release last month. With a game this big and full of overlapping systems, unleashing it on the general public was always going to reveal an explosion of bugs and issues, and it seems like developers Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel have been…

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Intel adds mobile chips to its updated Arrow Lake ‘Plus’ family with 8% more gaming performance despite no changes to core counts or their clock speeds

Exactly a week after Intel announced its newly refreshed Arrow Lake Plus CPUs for desktop PCs, here comes a pair of mobile chips for laptops. We give you the new Intel Core Ultra 200HX Plus family with 8% more gaming performance. Unlike the new desktop Arrow Lake Plus chips, that gaming uplift is delivered without…

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As a Pathfinder 2e sicko, I’m excited for Starfinder: Afterlight after playing an hour of its playtest—but Epictellers has a lot of work to do before demo time this summer

I’m rather excited for Starfinder: Afterlight, mostly because it’s the closest—beyond charming indie projects like Dawnsbury Days—I’m going to get to a fully-realised Pathfinder 2e videogame in the near future. It uses Starfinder 2e, but the base rules chassis is very much the same. I was also rather taken by its visual presentation. It’s clear…

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You know it’s bad when RAM manufacturers launch dummy kits to make it look as though you have dual-channel memory when you actually don’t

I’ve used dummy RAM kits before. Usually, a pair of DIMMs that contain no memory chips is simply acting as a shell to match other functioning DIMMs in the remaining slots, often with RGB lighting to match. They’re hella satisfying, I must admit, but, ultimately, needless. That’s what I thought this V-color announcement was all…

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