Epic is reportedly cooking up a Disney extraction shooter, and suggestions staff are lukewarm on it are ‘not reflective of the ambitions of the Disney collaboration’

In the wake of severe layoffs last month, Epic’s increasingly looking to the House of Mouse to shore up its flagging fortunes, per a recent report from Bloomberg. At the time of the layoffs, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney wrote that the company was “spending significantly more” than it was making thanks to a slump in…

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Bethesda’s ex-marketing VP says Skyrim was its first game to make other studios scared of it: ‘You have to be concerned about us if you think you’re going to win game of the year’

When did Bethesda become, you know, Bethesda? That is, when did it become one of those game companies whose every release becomes a ginormous public event? Morrowind? Oblivion? Fallout 3? None of those, if you ask former Bethesda marketing VP Pete Hines. In an interview with Firezide Chat, Hines said the studio’s first true “Holy…

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Lucky Redditor gets hands on unreleased Steelseries Rival Pro Mini, revealing another UWB wireless gaming mouse will soon hit the market

Beyond the vibrant pink honeycomb form of the just-dropped Aerox 3 Wireless Gen 2, Steelseries have been a bit quiet on the gaming mouse front. A recent leak suggests that’s all about to change, though, as pictures of a new ultra-wideband gaming mouse from the company have surfaced on Reddit. User nerkothegoat took to Reddit…

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Crimson Desert update has a few surprise improvements, like finally letting you teleport on your horse and a new ability

I’m of two minds about Crimson Desert‘s patches—on one hand, Pearl Abyss has been shaving off some of the friction that made its bizarre, madcap action game interesting. On the other, there were a lot of really irritating quirks that needed to be sanded down, and it’s downright impressive how dedicated the studio’s been to…

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Not that we should be at all surprised, but Nvidia leans on AI pretty hard for speeding up how it plans and designs its next generation of GPUs

For more than 16 years, Nvidia’s annual GTC event has been packed full with talks and presentations about all the things you can do with a GPU beyond rendering 3D graphics. This year’s conference was no different, of course, but hidden amongst all the talk was an insight into how Nvidia goes about designing its…

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