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Dan Houser, Rockstar games co-founder and one of the chief creative forces that transformed Grand Theft Auto into an unstoppable financial juggernaut, reckons that there’s “always that danger” that the games industry will become “overly focussed on making money.” Speaking on Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch to promote his recently released novel (via GamesRadar), Houser was…

The survival MMO Dune: Awakening is set to release June 10, but just before that, some players will get the chance to bask in the harsh sun in what sounds like an absolutely massive beta weekend. “From May 9 until May 12, the largest beta yet will take place, with a huge number of new…

AMD is reportedly in talks with Intel about the possibility of commissioning its fab business. Given American investment in domestic chips, this could be the type of win Intel has been looking for. This is all as reported by Semafar, though no word is given on how far these talks have gotten or where the…

I am already totally sold on In Falsus, the rhythm game from the same developer behind mobile music game Arcaea. After a very brief reveal trailer four months ago, we’ve now got a second trailer from the Tokyo Game Show with a little bit of gameplay and insight into a new card-based system. It’s got…

A Variety report says character actor Peter Jason, known to gamers as the gruff, put-upon Drill Sergeant Dornan in Fallout 2 and Dizzy in the Gears of War series, has died. Jason was a well-known “that guy” in films and television, with more than 260 credits going back to the 1960s, according to IMDB. He…

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2025 was “slop,” the catch-all term for machine-generated crapola—or, as Merriam-Webster more prosaically (and politely) defines it, “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.” Hard to argue with the pick: As PC Gamer’s Lincoln Carpenter said, it was “a year…