‘Defying common wisdom’, people have been buying more high-end graphics cards despite rising prices, with 12.5 million shipped last quarter alone

If you’ve been keeping up with the headlines, then you know gaming hasn’t been Nvidia’s main priority for some time now. Given that its data centre segment made $89 billion in Q2 of 2026—an eye-watering 93% of the company’s total revenue that quarter—it’s not super surprising that Nvidia is all-in on AI. What may be…

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Ex-Blizzard employee has ‘vibe’ coded a new game engine with backing from AMD: ‘We’re developing 93x faster than we ever did before with Unreal’

An ex-Blizzard employee claims to have “vibe” coded an engine for their new game. The game is Em-8er and is “entirely ‘vibe’ coded” in the Kun-Zhi Engine. “I spent 6 months using AI to replace Unreal Engine from under our game Em-8ER. Now we’re developing 93x faster than we ever did before with Unreal. Because…

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Zach Cregger had to dial down the jokes in his upcoming Resident Evil film because test screeners ‘thought it was too funny’

Zach Cregger has a brilliant track record of directing horror films that are both horrifying and hilarious (at times). Weapons and Barbarian had moments of levity which made each respective film so much more bearable to sit through. Cregger is trying to do the same with his upcoming survival horror film, Resident Evil, the only…

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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director defends its physical disk still needing a download: ‘We didn’t want to make any compromises for the game’

The games industry’s been in an (understandable) fuss lately about the prophesied death of physical media from Sony, which has announced it’ll be going discless for the foreseeable future. Players are really angry because it’s not exactly great if the one place you can buy your games also controls the entirety of the pricing—as Sony…

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Ubisoft is ‘testing’ making its games far less annoying to launch on Steam

Playing a Ubisoft game from Steam usually requires installing and running Ubisoft Connect, which is the publisher’s own desktop launcher. It’s annoying to use one launcher—Steam—to access another launcher—Ubisoft Connect—in order to play an Assassin’s Creed game, but it’s been that way for years, and Ubisoft isn’t alone in insisting on it: EA and Rockstar…

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