Hooray for the PC: Sales are up by nearly 10% on last year, but predictably things are quite a bit slower in the US

Linux kernel maintainer says AI has suddenly become useful for devs: ‘We can’t ignore this stuff. It’s coming up, and it’s getting better’

AI must have been doing push-ups in the dead of night lately, because a lead Linux kernel maintainer says it’s pretty recently started to come in very useful. Not necessarily for coding—although I’m sure that landscape is constantly evolving, too—but rather for generating security reports. Speaking to The Register, Linux Kernel dev Greg Kroah-Hartman explained…

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Interview: “There’s Clearly Some Castlevania And Final Fantasy In There” – Mina The Hollower Composer Talks Secrets & Inspiration

Burrowing from the greats. Late last year, Yacht Club Games founder Sean Velasco described Mina The Hollower as “make or break” for the studio. After a long development process and a last-minute delay, Yacht Club needed Mina to hit if it was going to have a future. Two months since launch, and it’s fair to…

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Xbox Game Pass Really Isn’t Coming To Nintendo Switch

Microsoft reiterates it will remain exclusive to Xbox. There’s been conversation about Microsoft’s Game Pass subscription service potentially being released on rival platforms, but at the end of last year, the company’s gaming CEO Phil Spencer ruled this out. If you were hopeful this might change one day, it seems not. In Xbox’s latest business…

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The game formerly known as Operation Flashpoint is getting a remaster, while developer Bohemia Interactive has released its engine source code

When Operation Flashpoint launched in June 2001, it was one of the most ambitious games I’d ever played. One of the earliest military simulators, for me it was significant for being an open world game before the concept of open world games really existed. Operation Flashpoint’s intensely simulated combined-arms warfare took place across massive, freely…

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‘Please give us one more chance’: Infinity Nikki developer grovels in lengthy apology letter following disastrous launch of its newest patch

Version 1.5 of Infinity Nikki is Infold’s biggest update yet, but the launch didn’t exactly go well. Bugs, crashes, and login issues left tons of players unable to even try out the new patch, leading to its new Steam launch settling into Mixed reviews within hours. Subtle monetisation changes were also ruffling feathers with Chinese…

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