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We still don’t know a huge amount about The Witcher 4. But we do know it represents two big changes for the series thus far. The first change is, of course, that Ciri will replace Geralt as the lead character. The second is that CD Projekk will replace its in-house REDengine with Unreal Engine 5….
Dune Awakening was lauded for its survivalist take on Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic when it was released last year, but there’s one element of Funcom’s sci-fi adventure that’s proved consistently controversial, and that’s its MMO-adjacent elements. Players seemingly love constructing bases and braving the many dangers lurking in Arrakis’ deserts, but are less keen on…
As reported by Automaton, the 2026 CESA Videogame Industry Report, a survey-based assessment of the Japanese games business, shows a sharp uptick in AI adoption by Japanese developers: 85.8% in 2026, up from 51% just last year. In July, a separate survey covering just online game devs showed a 100% rate of AI adoption. Breaking…
The Last of Us game director Bruce Straley has apologized for singling out God of War Laufey in a comment about lack of innovation in triple-A games. “God Of War Laufey, I look at that game, and every pixel is mindblowing,” Straley said in a recent Edge magazine feature. “The amount of work and skill…
It’s impossible to gauge a wider community’s feelings towards something, thanks to the simple problem of ‘the angriest usually shout the loudest’, and even if they’re the minority, it usually doesn’t sound like it. I’ve had this problem with a lot of things, but Zach Cregger’s upcoming Resident Evil film is the latest victim. Despite…
In a new VGC interview, Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director Naoki Hamaguchi revealed that the upcoming JRPG is looking at a 200GB install size, bigger than almost any game out there, and certainly an outlier among singleplayer RPGs. Hamaguchi was responding to a question about Revelation’s retail, physical version. It was previously disclosed that Revelation…
It’s generally agreed that this is a very bad time for the videogame industry. There’s some disagreement on just how bad it is—Tim Cain says it’s not as bad as the infamous crash of the early 1980s, Brenda Romero says it’s worse—but the bottom line is that if you’re comparing your current situation to that…
While Monster Hunter Wilds’ performance issues dominated the conversation about its reception on PC, one of the other ongoing sources of player frustration was the entry’s approach to difficulty. Initially, a number of players thought the game was too much of a sleepwalk—but once later updates started amping up the threat level, many of those…
The Hollywood Reporter says noted huge guy Alan Ritchson, best known as the star of the popular Prime series Reacher, is in talks to take the lead on Sony’s upcoming Helldivers movie. If negotiations are successful, Ritchson will step into the role left behind by fellow huge guy Jason Momoa, who dropped out of the…
Grand Theft Auto 6 is coming! Not to us on Team PC, mind: It will eventually, but right now it’s a strict console exclusive. Why? Hard to say: Publisher Take-Two Interactive has taken pains to reassure PC gamers that they’re very important and loved, but also, y’know, not now. The latest reassurance to gamers on…