EA exec pinky-promises there's no GenAI in Battlefield 6, but does say it's 'Very seducing' like someone being lured to an early grave in a Hellraiser film
November 5, 2026
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EA exec pinky-promises there’s no GenAI in Battlefield 6, but does say it’s ‘Very seducing’ like someone being lured to an early grave in a Hellraiser film

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With EA now on the hook for $20 billion in the wake of its Saudi-and-Kushner-funded buyout, both the company and its new owners have been pretty obvious about their ambitions for AI-driven development to, somehow, miraculously help it start printing money quickly. Which is concerning. Also concerning: One of EA’s biggest releases this year hits…

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New AMD docs show its next-gen Zen 6 CPUs will adopt Intel’s ‘FRED’ interrupt handling and could point to a major architectural overhaul

The Fridge07 mins

Documents detailing technical aspects of what’s thought to be its next-gen Zen 6 CPUs have been posted on AMD’s website. The most significant covers AMD’s adoption of Intel’s so-called ‘FRED’ interrupt handling. It’s a change that implies that Zen 6 could be a major architectural overhaul as opposed to a relatively minor revision. FRED stands…

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This mind-blowingly open-ended RPG might be the next Baldur’s Gate 3: ‘If you have the patience, you could wipe out an entire town by just turning everyone against each other’

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Unforetold: Witchstone was maybe the biggest surprise for me at our PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted showcase. The Spearhead Games CRPG almost evokes Larian’s first Divinity: Original Sin game in its presentation, but instead of pursuing cinematic RPG production values, Witchstone is like an alternate evolutionary path emphasizing the construction of an open-ended, RPG sandbox….

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Nearly 19,000 games released on Steam in 2024

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Nearly 19,000 videogame products released on Steam this year—18,945 as of press time, meaning if 50-some things get dropped before January 1, 2025 my headline there turns into a lie but whatever I’m going for it. Where was it? Oh, right, what the hell? That is a lot of game releases. According to ever-reliable stat…

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Resident Evil Requiem’s protagonist is ‘an introverted and fearful character,’ but to be fair there’s a giant monster chasing her

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Resident Evil Requiem protagonist Grace Ashcroft is “an introverted and fearful character, which is unusual for this series,” said producer Masato Kumazawa (translated from Japanese) during a segment in the Future Games Show’s Gamescom showcase. To be fair to Grace, she’s being chased through a derelict hotel by an enormous monster, using a Zippo to…

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