Xbox announces 'a generative AI model for gameplay ideation' called Muse, but don't get too excited: Machines aren't about to make games for you just yet

Xbox announces ‘a generative AI model for gameplay ideation’ called Muse, but don’t get too excited: Machines aren’t about to make games for you just yet

“In nearly every corner of our lives, the buzz about AI is impossible to ignore,” Microsoft said in today’s announcement of its new generative AI model called Muse, and that is absolutely true. “It’s destined to revolutionize how we work, learn, and play,” it continued, and well, I’m not so sure about that part. But…

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‘When’s Marvel?’ Next year, as Guilty Gear studio Arc System Works takes the classic superhero tag-team fighter for a ride with a new 4v4 format

‘When’s Marvel?’ (or Mahvel, if we’re being picky) has been a rallying cry among fighting game fans for years now. Part meme, part genuine call for the return of Capcom’s classic Marvel vs Capcom series. Well, the good news is that Marvel is coming back, and we even know when—2026! The bad news is that…

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Open-source Morrowind project just got an update 3 years in the making that might have me saying bye to the vanilla game for good—oh, and you can load Skyrim in it now

Having begun work on it sometime after the domestication of rice, the heroic mad lads over at OpenMW—the open-source engine reimplementation for The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind that lets you play it with a minimum of fuss on pretty much any modern OS—have finally released its much-anticipated 0.49 update. Okay, work actually began on it…

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‘Defying common wisdom’, people have been buying more high-end graphics cards despite rising prices, with 12.5 million shipped last quarter alone

If you’ve been keeping up with the headlines, then you know gaming hasn’t been Nvidia’s main priority for some time now. Given that its data centre segment made $89 billion in Q2 of 2026—an eye-watering 93% of the company’s total revenue that quarter—it’s not super surprising that Nvidia is all-in on AI. What may be…

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