‘[Marvel Rivals] scared us a bit’: Overwatch boss says the explosive success of another hero shooter prompted Blizzard to take risks

Earlier this year, Overwatch shook things up: It dropped the 2, it dropped five heroes at once, and it dropped more story than it’s ever had. Blizzard kickstarted a new era for the live service hero shooter almost 10 years after its debut, a plan that was partially inspired by the explosive success of Marvel…

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Nvidia continues to make astronomical amounts of money from AI, with the first quarter of 2026 being its biggest to date

Nvidia’s latest earnings call said almost nothing about the gaming business you and I know it for—though it’s not hard to see that this part of the business is largely overshadowed by the cash AI is continuing to throw around. Nvidia announced record revenue during the first quarter of 2026, seeing an 85% year-on-year increase…

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Witcher 3’s heaviest scene stunned its devs into silence, but Cyberpunk 2’s associate director says it was crucial for ‘understanding the craft’ of quest design

In the event you have not yet gotten around to 2015’s best singleplayer game, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, then beware—spoilers await you ahead. If you have gotten around to it, then you’ll be agonisingly aware of its most harrowing scene. After spending so long searching for Ciri, Geralt and the gang are (relatively) safely…

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‘Every single frontier model company will jump on Vera Rubin from the get go’: Nvidia CEO insists the future looks bright

It’s hardly surprising that there was almost no mention of the gaming side of the business in Nvidia’s latest quarterly earnings call. The company has been riding high on all things AI for several years now, to the tune of a $5.41 trillion market capitalisation as I write this. Unsurprisingly, CEO Jensen Huang is excited…

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It’s the year 2026, and New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani will be streaming regularly on Twitch starting today

It’s the 21st century, which means—er, well, all sorts of existential horrors. But it also means that the media landscape, a term I typically shudder to use but is genuinely applicable here, has changed. A lot of the younger generations get their news from social media and streaming platforms, including online personalities—and archetypically, the government…

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