State of Play returns this Thursday, August 6

Google’s toying with nonsense AI-made headlines on articles like ours in the Discover feed, so please don’t blame me for clickbait like ‘BG3 players exploit children’

Pop quiz, hotshot: what was the headline on this article when you clicked on it? Was it classic PC Gamer style—witty, insightful, with the rare power of capturing the essence of a story with neither artifice nor evasion, and unintentionally but unmistakably implying the incredible mental powers and physical beauty of the writer? Or did…

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Blood Bowl creator Jervis Johnson agrees with Games Workshop’s AI ban, says ‘it allows you to be a bit lazy and not put in the effort’

Jervis Johnson is a legend in the world of tabletop game design. During almost four decades spent at Games Workshop he created Blood Bowl and wrote the core rules for Advanced Heroquest, co-created Necromunda, and wrote significant chunks of Warhammer 40,000’s second edition, Warhammer Fantasy Battle’s fourth edition, multiple iterations of Age of Sigmar, and…

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