The Katamari Damacy designer is releasing a game about a kid stuck in a T-pose

GTA 6’s NPCs have about 600,000 animations, as well as personality traits that take ‘demographic and professional’ variables into account

Grand Theft Auto 6’s NPCs are so incredibly complicated, it briefly sent the studio into a bit of a “horrifying” spin, requiring an entire team of writers and producers to be assembled just to handle the workload. This has since been doubly confirmed by the studio in a recent mega-preview from our friends at Edge:…

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One of Steam’s most successful Pokémon-likes is doing a Palworld

Pokémon-inspired creature collectors are an ouroboros, and it’s just taken another bite of its own tail. During today’s Triple-I Initiative showcase, Crema Games—developers of Temtem, one of the more successful Pokémon-likes on Steam—revealed Temtem: Pioneers, “an ambitious open-world survival crafting adventure” where players can collect, battle, and build alongside a team of tameable creatures. It’s…

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This game about grinding mute lumps of shapeless flesh has made me realise I’ve been hornswoggled by capitalism

Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…

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Final Fantasy Creator’s Next Script Is Already Done

But the same project could still be a while away… Following the recent release of Fantasian Neo Dimension for Switch, the Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi is now focused on his future. In the same Famitsu interview with Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii, Sakaguchi revealed how he won’t be calling time on his career any…

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