The European Commission has opened an antitrust investigation into Google and whether it is imposing unfair terms on content creators and web publishers to power its AI services. The Commission’s investigation focuses on two major concerns. First, the possible use of videos uploaded to YouTube being used to train generative AI models. This being done…
File this under “oddly satisfying”. At last night’s Wholesome Snack: The Game Awards Edition 2025 showcase, the publisher TinyBuild and developer Mandragora announced a new narrative-based simulation game, called ReStory, that will let players run their very own electronics repair shop in Japan to dismantle, clean, and fix a bunch of nostalgic devices. This includes…
The Fallout TV show returns for Season 2 next week, with the series opting for a weekly cadence that goes on till February. Season 2 takes us to the setting of Fallout: New Vegas, and PCG’s Ted Litchfield recently had the opportunity to speak to one very interested party: the lead writer of Fallout: New…
We’ll take them all, thanks! Sega and the keyboard and accessory manufacturer Higround announced plans earlier this week for a new range of keyboards for your PC, inspired by Sonic the Hedgehog & the Sega Dreamcast (Thanks Sonic City). The two companies have previously collaborated before, joining forces back in 2022, to release a range…
Creature comforts. Puzzle platformer Planet of Lana launched on Switch last year, and we were particularly enamoured by it. Developer Wishfully quickly followed it up with the announcement of a sequel, ‘Children of the Leaf‘, and the latest gameplay trailer promises it will be every bit as cute as we’d hope. Revealed during yesterday’s Unity…
Konami’s ‘Roc ‘N Rope’ is coming to consoles this week. This week’s Arcade Archives release is Konami’s “wire-action” title Roc ‘N Rope, an early arcade game from the creator of the Ghosts ‘n Goblins series and Bionic Commando and the co-creator of Resident Evil, Tokuro Fujiwara. Released in 1983, Roc ‘N Rope was one of…
Just as was promised, Rogue is being teased as the new hero for Marvel Rivals season 5.5. This follows on from her partner Gambit being introduced at the start of the season and scenes of their wedding kicking off the narrative turmoil. We all knew that Rogue was going to be a bit of a…
Is Larian’s popular role-playing series back? We’re just days out from The Game Awards, and one marketing stunt that’s got a lot of attention in the lead up to the show is a mysterious statue located in the middle of the Mojave Desert. It’s ignited plenty of speculation online, and now a trio of Divinity…
“Our strategy going forward is changing”. As we wait for something to come of the 10-year deal between Microsoft and Nintendo, the Call of Duty team at Activision has today announced its strategy “going forward” is changing. From here on out, the team will “no longer do back-to-back releases” of Modern Warfare or Black Ops…
The Forge—a Roblox RPG meets mining sim—throws a ton at you just within those first few minutes of questing, cave exploration, and crafting. It’s a little more serious about the RPG part of the formula than I anticipated, so when the tutorials turned me loose, I’ll admit it, I floundered. Fortunately, after countless trial-and-error crafts…