Planet Coaster 2 isn’t the financial success that Frontier needed, according to a report, which means there’s more pressure on Jurassic World Evolution 3 to bring in the big bucks

According to an investor analysis report from Zeus Capital, Planet Coaster 2 hasn’t lived up to expectations when it comes to revenue and reception from the playerbase, and it doesn’t look like anyone’s too surprised.  Despite selling over 400,000 units within two months of release and earning over £10 million, “cash flows are still negative,”…

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Action adventure game Unknown 9: Awakening was a ‘failure,’ says developer, which has cancelled a follow-up project and laid off staff

Reflector Entertainment has announced the cancellation of an in-development project and another round of layoffs following the “failure” of its debut game, Unknown 9: Awakening. Studio CEO Herve Hoerdt said he halted work in the project, which was in the “conceptualization phase,” as continuing development “would not have been sustainable for the future of the…

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Final Fantasy 14’s chaotic alliance raid lives up to the name by swapping around 2 wrongly labeled attacks an entire month after everyone’s already learned them

Final Fantasy 14’s first chaotic alliance raid—a higher difficulty 24-player fight that’s adapted from one of the original A Realm Reborn raids—arrived at the end of December, and I actually like it a lot. Even if having to rely on 23 other people to consistently execute each mechanic is the definition of futile. Well, why…

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CRKD Neo S review

Controllers are better than mice and keyboard for gaming [Editor’s note: nope]. A keebmouse set-up is definitely going to get you the better kill death score yet controllers are more comfortable, accessible, intuitive, flexible, and fun. As you can see, I have my funeral plot all picked out atop this contrary PC gaming take hill,…

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Oh well, looks like the next 4 years are going to be an AI free-for-all as Trump nixes Biden administration’s safety order

Among a very (very) long list of Biden administration executive orders cancelled on day one of Trump’s second term as president, one stands out as particularly impactful when it comes to technology. Executive Order 14110 has been nixed and with it a framework for regulating the development of AI tools, software and models. Order 14110…

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Now Nvidia’s hardware blocks have been AI’d out of existence all it will take for Frame Generation support on RTX 20- and 30-series GPUs is ‘further optimization and testing’

A lot of things are going to change when Nvidia’s new RTX Blackwell cards launch this month, with a bunch of it coming to existing cards as well as the RTX 50-series. But will one of those changes see DLSS Frame Generation coming to the Ampere-based RTX 30-series? It’s possible, because now we’re just talking…

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Havok, whose software is famed for its use in Half-Life 2 and Elder Scrolls, just showed off its updated physics engine in first YouTube trailer in over ten years

Half-Life 2, Halo 3, Fallout: New Vegas, and Knight Rider: The Game. All iconic titles in their own right and all using Havok’s iconic physics or pathfinding engine components. If you haven’t seen the legendary Havok saw logo in some time, a recent physics engine test video could signal a comeback. Other than a presentation…

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