The latest Steam Next Fest features a pile of Palworld-likes as witches and airships battle over the creature-collecting survival subgenre

When Palworld sold 12 million Steam copies in under two weeks, two things felt like they’d become inevitable: First, that Nintendo’s lawyers would take any opening they could find to punish Pocketpair for daring to release what many had been calling Pokemon: Gun Version well before its launch, and second, that we’d eventually see Palworld…

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There’s still no word on a Nier 3, but series mastermind Yoko Taro is writing a new Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series

As reported by IGN, Neon Genesis Evangelion is getting a new anime series with some serious talent at the helm: Yoko Taro, the creator of Drakengard, Nier, and the 2017 breakout hit, Nier: Automata. Taro will be in charge of the series’ writing and overall composition. The news was announced as part of “Evangelion:30+”, the…

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Rejoice: Arc Raiders is getting beards

Embark just published details about the next Arc Raiders update that’s landing tomorrow: A new hurricane map condition will ping your shields with debris and send your grenades tumbling with wind gusts, two new Arc enemies will unleash new kinds of automated terror in air and on ground, a new project brings some fresh rewards,…

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Todd Howard says AI’s ‘not a fad’ but ‘we’re not using it to generate anything… that handcrafted human intention, is what makes things special, and that’s where we want to be’

Bethesda CEO Todd Howard has circled back to the topic of AI, and he’s still as hand-wavey as ever about Bethesda’s use of the tech. He doesn’t dismiss the tech in a new interview with Kinda Funny, but wants to be clear that Bethesda doesn’t use it to generate content, or have any plans to….

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Krafton’s new chief AI officer says the company ‘uses AI as a tool to amplify human imagination and creativity, not replace it’ 3 months after it announced a hiring freeze and launched a voluntary resignation programme

Krafton loves AI. Indeed, the publisher loves it so much that it followed a record-breaking quarter in November by starting a hiring freeze and a voluntary resignation programme so it could restructure itself around AI. Instead of investing in people, it’s investing $88 million in a technology that has yet to remotely prove itself in…

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Der8auer has been shattering glass water block windows for testing purposes, and also because it’s really fun

YouTuber, extreme overclocker, and Thermal Grizzly CEO Der8auer has been keeping themselves busy of late, testing the pressure resistance of water block cooling windows. Traditionally, these are made of a durable acrylic that can easily withstand far more pressure than a conventional liquid cooling system can provide, but Thermal Grizzly has been experimenting with glass…

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‘Anyone found to be cheating will be permabanned from playing Marathon forever’: Bungie’s doubling down on security following Arc Raiders’ recent foibles

As we’ve learned from the likes of Arc Raiders as of late, cheating and exploits are absolutely game-breaking in an extraction shooter. The recent item duplication glitch forced Embark to dish out warnings and bans after it broke the in-game economy, though there have been fears over big-name content creators getting preferential treatment. Bungie has…

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