Generative AI has been showing up in games so often these days that I don’t know who to trust anymore. It seems like every day there’s another game studio or publisher plaguing their games with more gen AI voice acting, gen AI chat bots, or gen AI art. Blizzard developers, however, have come out against…
Including the sale of Pokémon GO. A new report from Bloomberg claims Pokémon GO developer Niantic is apparently in talks to sell its video game business to the Saudi Arabia-owned company Scopely. This deal would supposedly be announced in the “coming weeks” and the figure of the sale is expected to be around $3.5 billion….
Small size aluminum case supports full size graphics cards Boutique system builder Velocity Micro sent word today that its new NX chassis is available immediately, provided you let the company fill it with parts with configurations starting out at $879. In other words, you can’t buy the compact case on its own, though if you’re…
If you’ve stuck with Elden Ring Nightreign‘s default character, Wylder, then you’ll quickly fill his journal and unlock his Chapter 3 Remembrance mission, which throws you in at the deep end with what’s called a personal objective. Speaking to Iron Menial, the Roundtable Hold’s caretaker, you’ll then have to find a whetstone in Limveld. You’re…
Hey gang! Team Cherry here. We’re hugely excited to reveal the new Hollow Knight: Voidheart Edition, arriving for PS4 users September 25! Descend into the world of Hollow Knight, the award-winning action-adventure through a world of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, ancient cities and deadly wastes. Battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs. Uncover…
A big update has come to the InkyPen subscription service, which launched on the Nintendo Switch in December of 2018. InkyPen has announced that “We’ve partnered with Kodansha to bring a huge library of manga to InkyPen on your Nintendo Switch”. The new additions include “Attack on Titan, Fairy Tail, Battle Angel Alita, Parasyte and…
A new video from Hardware Unboxed has just been released claiming that the Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti is effectively end of life from here on out. It cites conversations it’s had with retailers and AIBs about the cards post-CES where both basically say that the RTX 5070 Ti cards that are out on the shelves…
Remember those ‘I’m a Mac, and I’m a PC’ ad spots from years ago? Such platform rivalry feels like old, mouldering hat these days (especially to a console-gaming interloper like me). That said, we live in a world where both the MacBook Neo and the Dell XPS 13, two notebooks alike in dignity, are vying…
For the first time ever, I am genuinely worried about Fortnite’s future. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney announced this week that 1,000 people—about a fifth of all staff—would lose their job. The company brings in an estimated $6 billion a year but is “spending significantly more” than it is making, Sweeney said, citing a “downturn…
“It wasn’t our decision to make”. Of all the dream Nintendo Switch 2 ports, Baldur’s Gate 3 is probably extremely high on many people’s lists. It certainly is on ours too! But that pipe dream may have to stay as just that — a pipe dream. Larian Studios, the developer behind the GOTY winning RPG…