Saber CEO scorns writer who says she was fired in favor of AI with confusing, combative statement

After noticing the announcement of upcoming driving sim Rideshare Stimulator, writer Stella Sacco commented on social media that she’d once been the game’s lead writer but had been fired in favor of ChatGPT. The game’s publisher, Saber Interactive, denied the claim, stating that while it did use generative AI in the development of Rideshare Stimulator…

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Big Walk review

Need to Know What is it? A co-op (only) game about solving puzzles on an island with your pals.Release date: August 04, 2026Expect to pay: $20/£XX [Remember: if the price is 49.99, round it up to 50.]Developer: House HousePublisher: PanicReviewed on: Intel i7 9700K, RTX 4070 Ti, 16GB RAMSteam Deck: VerifiedLink: Official site Behind soundproof…

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Take-Two won’t reveal raw GTA 6 preorder numbers because it doesn’t know what they mean: ‘It’s just never happened before’

Even though we still haven’t seen a gameplay trailer, Grand Theft Auto 6‘s pre-release sales have been “unprecedented,” according to publisher Take-Two. So why doesn’t the public company just tell us specifically how many GTA 6 preorders it’s sold? Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier recently posed that question to Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, who said that the…

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Twitch under fire for new gen AI training system that harvests streamer data for Amazon, says it’s on by default because ‘if it was opt-in, nobody would opt in’

Twitch has revealed that it is now using content in streams “to train generative AI content models across Amazon,” and making matters worse, everyone is opted into the training program by default. Rumors of an AI training program have been kicking around for at least a few weeks now—streamer Zach Bussey posted about it on…

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Wes Fenlon’s recommendations

When I really think about how I spend my time writing here on PC Gamer, there’s actually not all that much of it that goes into straightforward recommendations. Between interviews, editorials about the games industry, features about PC gaming history and a spot of news here and there, it’s not all that often I just…

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Immortality creator Sam Barlow reveals his next game: A tale of visions of the future, and why they’re not always great

Back in 2024, Immortality creator Sam Barlow teased a new thing codenamed Project C. During today’s Kinetic Publishing Showcase, it was finally unveiled as Precognition, a sci-fi thriller being developed in a collaboration between Barlow’s Half Mermaid Productions and horror director (and son of David) Brandon Cronenberg. Precognition will set players off as Diana, a…

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CD Projekt cuts more than 20% of The Witcher spinoff development team ‘to reflect the project’s needs at this stage of development’

CD Projekt has confirmed that nine employees working on The Witcher spinoff Project Sirius have been laid off, saying it has “adjusted the size of the Sirius team to reflect the project’s needs at this stage of development.” “As a result, four people in Boston and five in Warsaw are leaving the company, while nine…

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