Redditor buys what looks to be a prototype for unreleased Xbox Elite Series 3 controller, posts about it on Reddit, then the thread goes dark

It’s been nearly seven years since the release of the Xbox Elite Series 2, which means we’re well overdue for a new one. It sure looks like that’s set to happen soon, as one Redditor just posted the motherlode of information on the unreleased pad—then their account mysteriously vanished and the thread was partially wiped…

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Videogame lawyer says it’s become ‘just boilerplate’ this year to include no-AI clauses in contracts: ‘It’s not worth the legal liability’

There’s a problem with new technologies, in that cutting-edge technology develops quickly—in the span of years. Meanwhile, us human beings with our wet flesh bodies and our complicated bureaucracies and legal systems are glacially slow. You can see this playing out with generative AI. For a few years now, we’ve heard a lot of overexcitement…

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PC Gamer magazine’s new issue is on sale now: Onimusha: Way of the Sword, with a huge A1 poster and Top 100 games mini-mag

This month, PC Gamer gets world-exclusive access to Onimusha: Way of the Sword, Capcom’s much-anticipated new action sword-fighting game. For our awesome lead feature, PC Gamer travels to Osaka, Japan, to go inside Capcom’s headquarters and play plenty of Way of the Sword as well as interview seven of the key developers who have brought…

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Saber CEO scorns writer who says she was fired in favor of AI with confusing, combative statement

After noticing the announcement of upcoming driving sim Rideshare Stimulator, writer Stella Sacco commented on social media that she’d once been the game’s lead writer but had been fired in favor of ChatGPT. The game’s publisher, Saber Interactive, denied the claim, stating that while it did use generative AI in the development of Rideshare Stimulator…

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Big Walk review

Need to Know What is it? A co-op (only) game about solving puzzles on an island with your pals.Release date: August 04, 2026Expect to pay: $20/£XX [Remember: if the price is 49.99, round it up to 50.]Developer: House HousePublisher: PanicReviewed on: Intel i7 9700K, RTX 4070 Ti, 16GB RAMSteam Deck: VerifiedLink: Official site Behind soundproof…

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Take-Two won’t reveal raw GTA 6 preorder numbers because it doesn’t know what they mean: ‘It’s just never happened before’

Even though we still haven’t seen a gameplay trailer, Grand Theft Auto 6‘s pre-release sales have been “unprecedented,” according to publisher Take-Two. So why doesn’t the public company just tell us specifically how many GTA 6 preorders it’s sold? Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier recently posed that question to Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, who said that the…

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Twitch under fire for new gen AI training system that harvests streamer data for Amazon, says it’s on by default because ‘if it was opt-in, nobody would opt in’

Twitch has revealed that it is now using content in streams “to train generative AI content models across Amazon,” and making matters worse, everyone is opted into the training program by default. Rumors of an AI training program have been kicking around for at least a few weeks now—streamer Zach Bussey posted about it on…

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