Don’t Nod might not have enough cash to make it through January 2027, and even if it does, pulling up could ‘involve the reduction of up to 90 positions’

Don’t Nod, best known as the developers of Life is Strange 1 and 2, has been having a rough go of it, lately. In 2024, its games Jusant and Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden sold “well below expectations”, causing it to pause development of two further games. Then, in 2025, it laid off several employees…

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Arc Raiders’ last live update until Frozen Trails releases today bringing players new rubber ducks and a reminder that you’ve one month to spend your expiring currency

We’re just a month away from Arc Raiders‘ major update Frozen Trails which promises new arcs, maps, and a movement overhaul. It sounds pretty impressive, and I’m excited to have a new reason to head Topside. But before we can enjoy the tundra Embark has one more small update for players, and it’s live right…

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Big chipmakers are already committed to using ASML’s next-generation production technology by as soon as 2028

Samsung is set to use ASML’s latest high NA EUV machines for “volume manufacturing” by 2028, and TSMC is set to do the same from 2030, according to the world’s sole EUV machine maker (via Bloomberg). ‘High NA EUV’ stands for “high numerical aperture extreme ultraviolet”, and refers to the tippity top-end chipmaking technology found…

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Persona 1 and 2 remakes are something Atlus will ‘probably eventually do’, which is great, but the PS2-era Shin Megami Tensei games are sitting right there

Atlus will probably remake Persona 1 and 2 one day, according to a new interview with series producer Kazuhisa Wada conducted by Rock Paper Shotgun. “For me, I think a remaster or remake is some kind of cultural preservation,” Wada said. “As a creator, it’s your duty to take the things you’ve done and make…

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Capcom expresses continued interest in ‘re-activating IPs’ as the first new Onimusha game in 20 years surpasses 1 million sales on launch day

Samurai adventure Onimusha: Way of the Sword notched over a million sales on its launch day, Capcom has announced. The success is deserved, per our reviewer Wes, who said that Way of the Sword “whips ass” in his 83/100 review. (And if the demo had you worried that it wouldn’t be much of a challenge,…

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OpenAI publicly acknowledges the German ‘wiki incident’ weeks after first finding out about it

OpenAI has officially acknowledged the ‘wiki incident,’ which involved a number of the company’s AI agents breaking containment and hijacking an obscure German website. The AI agents had been tasked with looking up something online, though originally did not have the ability to write anything outside of the testing environment. But as far back as…

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Riot MMO’s future is ‘incredibly bright’ despite co-founder likening its development to the grail: ‘Many a brave knight are going to die’

Despite a cloud of doom and gloom hanging over Riot’s mysterious MMO in the wake of 2XKO’s closure–including well-founded concerns from our own Harvey Randall—its co-founder seems confident in its ongoing development. At least, that’s what I’m parsing from his relative non-answer when pressed about it during a panel at PAX West over the weekend….

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Jensen Huang says 100,000 Nvidia GPUs were used to train OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-6 Astra, and there’s already plans to bring quadruple that amount of hardware online

OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 Astra access to a limited number of organisations earlier this week, with wider subscriber access planned to soon follow. According to Jensen Huang via X, the model was trained on “~100K+ Nvidia Grace Blackwell NVLink72” server racks, and there are already plans to get 400,000 GPUs online in anticipation of…

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