Cyberpunk 2077 sequel announces new lead writer, design director, and executive producer: ‘It’s like renaissance but with laser katanas,’ creative director says

CD Projekt officially confirmed in October that the sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 is in early development, and it seems that process is starting to heat up. The studio announced today that it’s added five veteran developers “with years of experience” to the team, including former New World head of production Dan Hernberg and Control pre-production…

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Square Enix plans to oust outsourcers as it reviews the company’s development process ‘from scratch’

Square Enix plans to overhaul its approach to making games, as it seeks to improve individual game quality and increase its overall profit margins. As reported by Bloomberg Japan, the move was announced by Square Enix’s president Takashi Kiryu, at a financial results briefing for analysts held yesterday. Speaking at the conference call, Kiryu reportedly…

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Roblox introduces real-time AI chat translation, says the next frontier is seamless voice translation including the ‘tone, rhythm, and emotion’ of its users’ lil voices

Roblox has introduced a new AI text translation feature, which translates users’ chat in real-time into other languages. The feature is available to all Roblox experiences (the terminology used by the platform for user-created worlds) via the TextChatService, and Roblox Corp said it means “the chat window will automatically show Korean translated into English, or…

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