Dreamcast's Aero Dancing Series Takes To The Skies Once More, Thanks To Fans

Former Mass Effect lead writer Mac Walters says the success of the Legendary Edition helped convince him to leave BioWare: ‘I don’t want to do any more Mass Effect after this’

Mac Walters amassed an enviable list of credits during his nearly 20-year career at BioWare on games including Jade Empire, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age, eventually rising to lead writer of Mass Effect 2 and 3 and creative director on Mass Effect: Andromeda. He then stepped into the role of production director on Dragon Age:…

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Video: Why All The Remakes, Nintendo?

Why? With Nintendo launching remakes of Star Fox and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in 2026, it’s only natural that fans are beginning to wonder whether it’s all just a bit too much. It’s not a new thing for Nintendo, of course, with the company flexing its remake chops back in the ’90s…

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AMD Officially Unveils Its Carrizo APU

APU promises better gaming performance and battery life at an affordable price While many PC enthusiasts are undoubtedly excited about AMD’s new Fiji graphics card, the company is also hard at work pushing the limits of its accelerated processing units, and today officially unveiled its sixth-generation APUs, codenamed Carrizo. Carrizo promises better battery life and…

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‘Continuing to sell this product is no longer sustainable’: Ayaneo has suspended pre-orders of its uber-powerful Next 2 gaming handheld after costs approached ‘twice the price we originally set’

I can’t have been the only one intrigued by the prospect of Ayaneo’s Next 2 handheld, a Strix Halo-powered machine with a whopping 115 Wh battery, twin NVMe drives, a whole host of high-capacity memory configurations, and the sort of specs sheet that would make many gaming laptops tremble in their boots. Well, the company…

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Rematch is free to play for a long weekend after its Season 1 launch—and I’m currently torn between saving Olympus and having a kickabout

Rematch is kicking off its first season post-launch, which means all sorts of cosmetics, and a nice helping of pretty arenas to get “Good Job!” spammed at you in. To celebrate, Sloclap’s made the game free to play for a long weekend—or until September 29—on Steam. There’s also a 20% discount until the same date….

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The Secrets Hidden Inside PlayStation VR Worlds

I’m Simon Hermitage and I’m the Lead Designer on PlayStation VR Worlds. It’s a product from us here at London Studio as we’ve explored what makes the best possible VR experience. The result is five purpose-built, awesomely immersive VR experiences which will have you diving with a shark, playing futuristic sports, hurtling down a mountain…

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Blizzard must now ‘discuss, evaluate, and bargain’ its AI usage with its developers

Blizzard Entertainment’s union—in conjunction with the Communications Workers of America (CWA)—has just signed a landmark contract with the studio to, among other things, force it to “discuss, evaluate, and bargain” any time it wants to introduce generative AI in the workplace. As explained on the CWA website, this contract has been in the works for…

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UK House of Lords backs amendment to AI bill thanks to peer vote that forces companies to reveal copyrighted material used in training AI models

In a sentence that reads like something out of a very derivative sci-fi novella, peers in the House of Lords have pushed back against the United Kingdom government’s bill around training AIs. Yes, this is exactly the kind of future I imagined living in. Not the cool one with flying electric vehicles. As the Guardian…

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