Ubisoft touches up AI art ‘placeholder’ that slipped into Anno 117, but fans are not happy it was there to begin with: ‘Of all the video games, not Anno’

Ubisoft has been caught with its hand in the generative AI jar again, continuing a multi-year streak of formal insistence by the publishing giant that AI and game development are destined to be together. Anno 117: Pax Romana is the first Ubisoft game to appear on Steam with an AI content disclosure, though the statement…

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Walton Goggins and Aaron Moten make surprise appearance at New Vegas fan convention in the real-life Goodsprings, remind us that Fallout season 3 is already confirmed

As reported by TheGamer, Fallout actors Walton Goggins and Aaron Moten made a surprise appearance at the annual Fallout fan gathering in Goodsprings, Nevada to hobnob with fans and remind them that, not only is Fallout season two coming out in a month, but the show’s already been renewed for a third season as well….

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Hear me out: GTA Online has always worked best as a singleplayer game, and whatever shape GTA 6’s multiplayer off-shoot takes needs to follow suit

Hackers and hoverbikes. Ask any GTA Online player to name their biggest gripes roving Los Santos, and I guarantee this pairing gets a name-check. And while Rockstar has spent years attempting to cull cheaters from its chaotic multiplayer spaces (with limited success, it must be said), marshalling griefing sky-bound Pegassi Oppressor Mk II enthusiasts as…

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The best artillery-themed party game is celebrating its 30th anniversary, and you can get all the series’ best entries for less than five bucks

You heard it here first: Mario Party is for scrubs, and Jackbox, well, Jackbox is pretty fun. But Worms is where it’s at—the 2D tactics game might have started on the Amiga, but it’s long been a multiplayer standard on PC where Team17 has pumped out sequels for three decades as of 2025. It’s celebrating…

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Wuxia MMO Where Winds Meet is full of AI chatbot NPCs, and people are doing all the standard obscene stuff to them: ‘I made him think that my character was pregnant with his child’

Where Winds Meet, the wuxia-themed soulslite multiplayer ARPG, is more than a little popular with around 190,000 concurrent players on Steam as I write this. It’s also got more than a little of everybody’s favorite novel-but-ruinous technology, as some of its NPCs appear to be powered by LLM chatbots. That means you can converse with…

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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is ‘definitely not competing for resources’ with Space Marine 3, because the latter is still years away

With over seven million copies of Tyranid-splatting action sold, it’s safe to say that Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 was a bit of a hit for developer Saber Interactive. Indeed, its success guaranteed there would be a sequel, and Saber made no attempt to hide the fact, announcing Space Marine 3 was in development just…

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The creators of zombie survival hit Vein say its launch was ‘much larger than expected’ and there will be ‘a bit of a transition period’ as it looks toward future updates

Steam’s endless torrent of new games means that far too many of them go overlooked, but it also means that surprise hits are being created pretty much every week. Such is the case with Vein, an early access zombie survival sandbox that aspires to be a hybrid of DayZ and Project Zomboid, and has quietly…

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