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At just about 15 hours into Phantom Blade Zero, I’ve changed out my primary weapons more times than I do in an entire Souls campaign. I quickly dropped my starter sword for a pair of dual blades and a jagged weapon that chunks damage off my enemies in showers of blood. But I didn’t stick…
GamesIndustryWarhammer 40,000: Boltgun developer Auroch Digital appears to be headed toward significant layoffs. In a statement posted to LinkedIn, since deleted but reported by GamesIndustry and others, the studio said that despite its “creative success, the same market conditions that have challenged so many of our fellow developers have now also affected us.” As a…
This week both AMD and Nvidia have announced partnerships with Meta, securing both collabs and billions of dollars. All three companies are heavily invested in AI, and these deals are only more fuel for the fire. Nvidia just announced its deal with Meta to “expand their partnership on Muse and the Muse family of models”,…
Presented by (Image credit: Torn Banner) This article is brought to you by No More Room in Hell 2. Last week, I asked PC Gamer readers to nominate the scariest PC games they could think of. I’ve collected the top 16 submissions from that comment section (with some editorial discretion) and randomly seeded the bracket…
James Wyatt, the principal game designer and project lead designer of the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons: World of Warcraft book was already running games in Azeroth long before he took on the project. For him, the fun of bringing WoW to the table is not to ignore the flexibility of D&D but to embrace it….
AI’s a touchy subject in the development industry, but in other areas it’s a lot less controversial—take Japan, for instance, which is embracing the technology a lot more than audiences in the West are. That’s not to say there isn’t any push back at all, mind. Still, an example of how there’s more of a…
We are just three weeks out from the release of Grand Theft Auto 6, which you can tell because it has cleared the release calendar around it like the Chicxulub crater. Ahead of the big day, our friends at Edge magazine visited Rockstar’s Edinburgh development HQ to chat with the studio’s leaders and put their…
Nvidia’s RTX 5090 has been a subject of much speculation recently, as it was rumoured to be discontinued last month when it vanished from the company’s official marketplace, only for Nvidia to confirm it wasn’t discontinued. The plot has thickened, though, as AIB partners—the companies actually designing and manufacturing RTX 50 series graphics cards—suggest even…
I’ve always thought that I’m a particularly good judge of character, so I was happy to put my theory to the test with Deadline: Afterlife Processing’s new demo where you play as some corporate angel judging whether the souls of the recently deceased should go upstairs or downstairs (I think we all know what that…
As we’ve noted before on this very site, there really is just no winning in the videogame industry, particularly under current conditions. Make an unsuccessful game? Make the kind of game you didn’t want to make, but were pressured into? Layoffs. Make a successful game? Layoffs. Currently making a game? Believe it or not, layoffs….