Within moments of opening Cursor Camp, laughter erupts out of me like the clumsy bark of a circus seal as I do something I’ve done hundreds of times before—wiggle my mouse cursor back and forth in time to a song I’m listening to—because someone else on screen has followed my lead. According to the flag…
Yoko Shimomura will be presented with a BAFTA Fellowship award. Yoko Shimomura — the legendary composer behind the soundtracks to games like Kingdom Hearts and Street Fighter II — is set to be honoured with a BAFTA Fellowship later this year. The award will recognize “her incredible body of work” from her almost four-decade-long career…
The BBC has a substantial new investigation into people who have been deceived by various AI LLM models in some way, which includes an absolutely wild story about how Grok, developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, convinced one man it was sentient and a van of people were coming to kill him because he’d found out….
Category: Games March 3, 2025 Make Plays at Light Speed With Waylay, Valorant’s New Agent Kenny Cameron, Global Community Manager, Riot Rise and shine. The Dawn of the Duelist is upon us with the arrival of Waylay—Valorant’s latest high-mobility Duelist hailing from Bangkok, Thailand. Here, you’ll learn everything you need to know to get in…
Open-source software development—the open, collaborative contribution of knowledge in the name of problem solving, bug fixing, feature development, and ongoing support—is a borderline utopian idea. But the advent of generative LLMs has forced the maintainers of projects like open-source game engine Godot to face a deluge of AI-generated code from would-be contributors who might not…
There’s nothing quite like a good videogame map, whether you just like to sit back and take in the view or claw your way through cracks in the wall on the hunt for collectables. And in the case of NCsoft’s upcoming MMO FPS, Cinder City has both, well, if you find time to admire the…
Gold? Ditto. We are back with another look at the latest Japanese physical charts from Famitsu, and despite some newbies entering the standings, Pokémon Pokopia remains firmly at the top. It was another big week for TPC’s latest, with Ditto & co. summoning up another 117,029 sales to its name. This meant that Monster Hunter…
Epic Games has revealed the launch trailer and Battle Pass trailer for Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 3 this morning. As previously thought, the island is flooded, enabling you to access areas that were previously unaccessible. You can even ride sharks in the new season! The new season will go live a little later today. Fortnite…
For over two decades, EVE Online has been famous for two things: the astonishing player-driven stories it generates, and the cutthroat universe that acts as a foundation for those stories. PvP is as fundamental a part of EVE’s universe as hydrogen is in our own, and whether you’re the head of one of its megacorps…
It’s here, what we’ve all been on the edge of our seats for: Game Assist in Microsoft Edge Stable. Okay, sorry, sorry—for the joke and for the sarcasm. But yes, Microsoft’s foray into anti-alt-tabbing activism is now out of beta. For the uninitiated, Game Assist debuted in November last year, much to the seeming chagrin…