Sony Interactive Entertainment chief says AI will enable ‘gaming experiences like never before,’ and I wonder: How long are these guys going to talk about it before we actually start seeing it?

Sony Interactive Entertainment president and CEO Hideaki Nishino used Sony’s latest quarterly financial report to share some thoughts on the role that AI will play in the future of game development, and if you’re thinking that he might temper his enthusiasm in the face of consumer discontent, all I can say is—guess again. Nishino is…

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Arrowhead addresses the Helldivers 2 community as recent Steam reviews slump to Mostly Negative: ‘We want to be clearer about what we’re working on and what’s coming next’

It was only in February that we reported that Helldivers 2 was in the best shape it had been in since launch. The siege of Cyberstan galactic campaign was the glittering jewel in the game’s live-service storytelling crown, delivering new toys like the Bastion tank and colossal new enemies called Vox Engines, as well as…

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Microsoft might be all-in on OpenAI now, but back in 2018 thought it was just ‘motivated by a need to show how Al can crush humans’

Remember when OpenAI created a bot that could beat humans at Dota 2? As PCG reported last week, that was because Elon Musk had personally called Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to secure a massive discount on access to Azure, the company’s cloud computing platform. Now a new document released thanks to the ongoing Musk vs…

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Brigador Killers smacked me in the mouth by making me level a city and kill the protagonists of the first game, and I can’t wait for more

Brigador Killers’ demo has one of my new favorite videogame tutorials: You control a giant rolling pinball of a mech as it rolls down a long corridor, a ghostly computer voice urging you on. “YOUR PEOPLE KILLED FOR PROFIT,” it declares. “TAKE WHAT THEY TOOK FROM YOU.” You’re then let loose in a bustling city…

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2K Games confirms layoffs at Project Ethos shooter studio and hints at new design direction: ‘It’s become clear that changes need to be made’

2K Games studio 31st Union has confirmed the layoff of an undisclosed number of employees, first reported by GamesIndustry, as it continues to develop Project Ethos, the free-to-play hero shooter announced in 2024. In a memo sent to 31st Union employees and shared with PC Gamer, 31st Union studio head Ben Brinkman, who left Respawn…

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CCP changed its name rather than pick a fight with the Chinese Communist Party, which was probably wise

Crowd Control Productions (CCP Games) was founded in 1997 in Reykjavik, Iceland. It is best known for EVE Online, its anarchic space MMO from which stories of intricately-plotted depravity emerge on a disturbingly but entertainingly regular basis. It has over 150 employees. The Communist Party of China was founded in 1921 in Shanghai, China, by…

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