Total War: Warhammer 40,000 is a sandbox that Creative Assembly will keep adding to rather than making sequels: ‘The true experience is the sandbox’

With Total War: Warhammer, Creative Assembly designed a trio of games, each with their own bespoke campaigns, but the core of the series quickly became the mode now known as Immortal Empires—every single faction and lord in one massive sandbox. And that’s been a big inspiration for Total War: Warhammer 40,000. At Gamescom 2026, battle…

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Dwarf Fortress creator says we have a natural lean towards human-made stories, ‘but we’re all going to be very sorely tested in the coming years’ by AI

Dwarf Fortress has an endless capacity for telling stories. It’s a game built on procedural generation, and any longtime player’ll be able to spin up a dozen yarns about some absurd thing that happened to their gaggle of miners. Just look at a headline from our own Lincoln Carpenter: “Dwarf Fortress forensic specialists blame mysterious…

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No Half-Life 3 for the Steam Frame, so it looks like this six-year-old game might be the key launch offering instead

Folks who pick up Valve’s soon to be released VR headset, the Steam Frame, may get a free Half-Life game with their purchase. Unfortunately, I’m not talking about a brand new release. Plus, it may well be a game virtual reality gamers already have—Half-Life: Alyx. Dataminer Brad Lynch unearthed this tidbit, sharing a screenshot of…

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Afterworld, Paradox’s post-apocalyptic grand strategy game, let me conquer Florida with a band of alcoholic mutant cannibals

With Afterworld, Paradox Development Studio is giving the post-apocalypse the Stellaris treatment, turning the end times into a ludicrously elaborate sandbox where you can live out all sorts of apocalyptic fantasies—whether you want to create a freewheeling band of road warriors or a new American empire. I went to Sweden to play an alpha build…

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Nvidia snuck me into a room to show off DLSS 5 in person, and it’s somehow beautiful, ugly, impressive, and troubling all at the same time

I think it’s fair to say that DLSS 5 is the most controversial Nvidia creation… well, ever. After the huge amounts of backlash it received in reaction to its unveiling earlier this year, Nvidia’s AI image enhancing tech has been mostly kept under lock and key. However, myself and a select group of journalists were…

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