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EA reportedly canned BioWare and Mass Effect 5 to make a new Star Wars: Battlefront instead

According to Bloomberg’s sources, EA saw a new Battlefront game as a less risky investment than Mass Effect Universe. This final factor joined a host of well-discussed reasons for BioWare’s unfortunate demise: Andromeda’s critical reception, Anthem’s live service failure, Veilguard’s sales struggle (pretty good game though), friction between the studio and EA since the very…

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YouTube’s top brains crack making its ads even worse: Using AI to insert commercials at moments you’re ‘most engaged’ with its videos

At the start of this year, after YouTube inexplicably decided that I was not, in fact, a proud resident of Argentina, it shunted me off my alarmingly cheap YouTube Premium package back into its regular, un-premium offering. It’s terribly disruptive, which I imagine is the point: ads before I start a video, during a video,…

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The sci-fi survival game from the creator of DayZ heads to space Skyrim in its latest DLC, accompanied by a free update that adds oil processing and chainsaws

I haven’t checked in on Icarus, the sci-fi survival game from DayZ creator Dean Hall, for quite a long time. And, well, a lot has changed in the years since it launched as a solid but somewhat unremarkable survival game. Over the course of hundreds of updates, RocketWerkz has added a fully explorable open world,…

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Relic’s taken a break from real-time strategy to make a turn-based hybrid of Advance Wars and cult classic Impossible Creatures—but it feels totally removed from the studio’s legendary legacy

An acclaimed—albeit struggling—RTS studio developing a cute turn-based tactics game full of retro sci-fi Martians and animal soldiers sounds like one of those terrible April Fools’ not-jokes that inundate my beleaguered inbox every April 1. But Relic’s Earth vs Mars is very real. Relic takes big swings. Homeworld still feels like a groundbreaking RTS more…

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An Update to Our Shared Commitment to Safer Gaming

Category: Announcements January 14, 2026 An Update to Our Shared Commitment to Safer Gaming Kim KunesVice President of Gaming Trust & Safety Nintendo, Sony Interactive Entertainment, and Microsoft continue to collaborate to improve player safety across our platforms. We believe gaming is for everyone and strive to provide experiences that are positive and enjoyable for…

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