Welcome to VA-11 Hall-A, Out Today on PS4

Welcome to VA-11 Hall-A, Out Today on PS4

Well, it’s real. VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action, the little thing we made for the Cyberpunk Jam five years ago, is now live at PlayStation Store. Holy crap. As a bunch of you will be starting a new round of VA-11 Hall-A, let’s dig a bit into the roots of the game’s protagonist: the character…

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Krafton’s new chief AI officer says the company ‘uses AI as a tool to amplify human imagination and creativity, not replace it’ 3 months after it announced a hiring freeze and launched a voluntary resignation programme

Krafton loves AI. Indeed, the publisher loves it so much that it followed a record-breaking quarter in November by starting a hiring freeze and a voluntary resignation programme so it could restructure itself around AI. Instead of investing in people, it’s investing $88 million in a technology that has yet to remotely prove itself in…

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Battlefield 6 — hands-on report

Battlefield 6 — hands-on report

Battlefield 6 has made its debut, with Electronic Arts providing the first big look at its sprawling first-person shooter, including hands-on with its often-enormous multiplayer mode. I engaged the enemy across four of the nine maps Battlefield 6 will include at launch, which took us through a range of battles: from the vehicle-filled All-Out Warfare…

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Interview: “We Can’t Say Anything About It Being A Video Game Console” – Meet The Sales Genius Who Helped Launch The NES

Bruce Lowry’s journey from Nintendo to Sega and back again! The launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America is one of gaming’s greatest success stories. At the time of its original test market release on October 18th, 1985, the market for video game consoles in North America was considered to be dead (if…

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Feature: “We Were Fighting Nintendo Clones Backed By Big Companies” – How A Small Toy Company Helped Sega Conquer Brazil

Former Tectoy CEO Stefano Arnhold on the Master System, Mega Net, and more. When it comes to recounting the history of video games, it’s pretty easy to fall into the trap of funnelling everything through the American experience, from the rise and fall of Atari, to the emergence and overwhelming dominance of the NES, and…

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‘It has a real ‘ring of power’ dynamic to it, and makes people do crazy things’ says Sam Altman on AI after alleged arson attack on home

Last week, someone reportedly threw an incendiary device at OpenAI chief Sam Altman’s house. Though Altman reports “it bounced off the house and no one got hurt”, he has taken to his blog to share his thoughts on the incident. Altman initially lays out his beliefs. He claims that “working towards prosperity for everyone” is…

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