Resurfaced Metal Gear Solid interview shows how Kojima made Yoji Shinkawa’s designs the game’s beating heart: ‘Hell yeah, a cyborg ninja!’

While it was far from his first game as director, 1998’s Metal Gear Solid is the title that established Hideo Kojima as one of the gaming greats. Pioneering in its cinematic approach, playfulness and outstanding imaginative parameters, the game marked a huge leap forward for 3D action generally, and single-handedly made stealth a genre that…

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‘The only way to beat China is to stay ahead of them’ says US commerce secretary as she backs CHIPS investments handed out to Intel, TSMC over sanctions

The outgoing Biden administration has made a point of prioritising chip manufacturing over its four year run, while also enforcing tough sanctions on China in order to slow down its chip making progress. With only a few weeks until the incoming Trump administration takes over, US commerce secretary Gina Raimondo has given an interview (via…

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The OG creators pitched Dead Space 4 to EA this year, but the publisher gave a flat ‘no’ so ‘we didn’t take it any further’

The key creatives behind Dead Space have revealed that earlier this year they tried to interest Electronic Arts in Dead Space 4, but the publisher took a pass. The 2008 game, developed by Visceral Games and directed by Glen Schofield, is an action-horror classic and inspired an excellent remake by Motive Studios released last year….

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‘If you’re a billion dollar company advertising your game, ask permission!’: Charlie the Unicorn creator chews out Warner Bros after MultiVersus ad uses his work without approval

Charlie the Unicorn creator Jason Steele has given Warner Bros. a disapproving finger wag after a MultiVersus advert used audio from the short film without so much as a “pretty please” from the multi-billion dollar corporation. In case you’re not clued up on your 2000s internet lore, Charlie the Unicorn is a four-minute animated video…

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OneXPlayer OneXFly F1 Pro review

I’m a smitten kitten. And it’s nothing to do with the fetching red clothing of the version of the new OneXFly F1 Pro I’ve been testing, either. Which is a good job, because this Evangelion EVA-02 version isn’t available outside of China, so if that was the real kicker you guys would be out of…

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Fallout’s original designer is fine with the direction of the modern games: ‘They’re both what they are, and a ton of people like it’

Bethesda’s tenure as the ruler of Fallout’s Wasteland has brought with it massive changes: the first-person perspective, FPS combat, base building, its transformation into a survival MMO. Since Fallout 3, the series has gone off in a bunch of different directions, most of them distinct from the original vision of Fallout’s creators. Tim Cain—who initially…

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AMD’s next-gen RDNA 4 graphics cards are now rumoured to be called the RX 9000-series, and we might have already had a sneak peek at what they look like

The world awaits the arrival of next-generation graphics cards, and all eyes are now turning towards CES 2025 where it’s hoped that Nvidia and AMD will show off some shiny new GPUs. Until now the latter’s offerings have been assumed to be the RX 8000-series, but several leakers are now saying they’ll fly in under…

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Turtle Beach Stealth Pivot review

Turtle Beach has decided it likes to put screens on its gamepads. That’s fine: the LCD display on the excellent Turtle Beach Stealth Ultra was a lot more useful than I thought it would be. When it comes to the new Stealth Pivot, the screen isn’t even the chief novelty. No, the big novelty here…

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