Battlefield 6 dev says its destruction tech is so delicious for one simple reason: ‘The only magic trick is that we’re not on the PS4 or Xbox One any more’

Battlefield 6 launches this Friday, the first entry in four years for a once-bombastic series that never got bad, exactly, but maybe lost a bit of its identity in chasing the all-conquering Call of Duty. The die-hards will tell you that Battlefield 2042 is a great game now, after years of post-launch support, but Battlefield…

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Game Pass subscribers ‘in certain countries’ will not be affected by the price increase, at least ‘for now,’ because sometimes government regulation is actually a good thing

The big Game Pass price hike announced last week took an unexpected twist today as Microsoft has confirmed that subscribers “in certain countries” won’t actually have to pay the higher rate, at least for now. The issue first came to light on Reddit, where some users claimed to have received emails stating that their existing…

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The first gameplay footage from Astroneer studio’s next space game looks like co-op chaos on colorful planets, but I’m not crazy about the idea of timed missions in a hangout game

Today we got our first look at gameplay from Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions, the next game from Astroneer developer System Era Softworks and published by Devolver Digital. It looks like a lot of fun, though I do have a couple reservations right out of the gate. Beginning at a space station crammed with astronauts, up to…

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Elon Musk’s AI-fuelled fever dream gets even hotter as he promises his AI game studio is going to release a ‘great’ game before the end of 2026

Remember when Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man and owner of Tesla, SpaceX, and X, said that too many game companies are owned by giant corporations and so his giant corporation was going to start a game studio to “make games great again?” And even better, in the completely ironic sense, it was going to…

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Netflix reveals The Witcher season 4 debut date with a new trailer, but more importantly: Everyone’s got fantastic hair

The first trailer for season 4 of The Witcher on Netflix is here, showcasing the new Geralt, his new team, and most importantly of all, a debut date of October 30. We haven’t previously known the release date for the fourth season of Netflix’s best-known monster-killing show, so that’s probably the real headline news here….

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This year’s Physics Nobel goes to 3 researchers for discoveries way back in the 1980s that paved the way to quantum computing

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists for their path-finding work in the field of quantum mechanics. It’s been a long time coming—three whole decades, in fact—but that’s seemingly how long it took to recognize that work was pivotal to the development of a whole lot of technology since the 1980s….

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As Destiny 2 hits is lowest ever daily peak for Steam concurrent players, Bungie U-turns on controversial plan to reset player power next season

All is not well in Destiny 2. Last month I detailed my many issues with the Edge of Fate expansion’s new Portal—the disastrous replacement for the game’s seasonal update model. Since then, nothing about the recent Ash & Iron update has persuaded me to return. And it’s not just me: Bungie’s recent moves have done…

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