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Ubisoft Co-Founder Dies In Plane Crash
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Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot died in plane crash on June 19 in an accident that also left another person dead. Guillemot was 69.Ubisoft said in a statement (via The New York Times) that it was "deeply saddened to learn of the death of Claude Guillemot, co-founder of the group and chairman of Guillemot Corp., in an accident." The statement added: "Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones during this difficult time."A report from French news broadcaster ICI said the crash happened ju
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Valve Was Forced Into Making A Weird Hardware Decision With Steam Machine
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Valve's Steam Machine is finally launching next week, but the journey to this point hasn't been easy. The living-room PC has found itself at the center of an ongoing RAM crisis--one that has forced Valve to turn every Steam Machine into a little bit of a memory lottery if you do happen to get one.Regardless of which Steam Machine you decide to purchase, each one will ship with 16GB of RAM. You can, however, get one of two configurations: either two sticks of 8GB each, or a single 16GB stick. If
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Lords Of The Fallen 2 Delayed To Avoid GTA 6 And Get More “Enhancements”
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Lords of the Fallen 2 is not going to make it out on time. Developer CI Games has announced that the game is shifting from 2026 to Q1 2027 (January-March 2027).CI Games CEO Marek Tyminski said feedback and tests showed that there are "meaningful opportunities" available to "further refine and strengthen the overall experience" with more time."These enhancements will benefit from additional integration, iteration, and polishing time, enabling the team to deliver the highest possible quality at la
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EA Exec Says There Has Been A “Real Rise Of Creativity” After Developers Embraced AI
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EA executive Laura Miele, the president of enterprise development at the publisher, has commented on the role of AI in game development. She said in an interview that she has seen a "real rise of creativity" at EA thanks in part to developers using AI tools and systems to do "tedious" tasks that in turn frees them up for more creative pursuits.
Miele was asked by The Game Business if using AI technologies can help speed up game development, and she said, "Perhaps in some parts they will."
She we
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Diablo 4’s Next Crossover Goes In A Much Different, “Lighter” Direction
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Diablo 4's next crossover collaboration will be with Blizzard's own Overwatch, bringing the looks of iconic heroes like Reinhardt, Mercy, Kiriko, and others to the dark-fantasy ARPG.The collab will come as part of Diablo 4's upcoming Season 14, Death Awakening, and will mostly be a "shop-focused collab," according to Diablo 4's design director for live services Dan Tanguay. There will, however, be a free reliquary where players can unlock two Overwatch-themed weapon cosmetics, a mount trophy, pl
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Blizzard Knows Diablo 4 Season 14’s Mythic Changes Are Controversial, But It’s For The Game’s “Long-Term Health”
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Diablo 4 Season 14 is set to be one of the biggest shakeups for the ARPG in quite some time, even as Blizzard deals with what it described as "issues compounding issues."The upcoming season, titled Death Awakening, is bringing controversial changes to Mythic items, weakening many build staples players have become accustomed to while opening the door for any of the game's 100+ Uniques to become "Mythic" quality with a 30% boost to the item's Unique power. This major update to items and how player
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Super Mario Galaxy Movie Hatchin’ Yoshi Toy Is 50% Off Right Now
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Amazon's big Prime Day sale is now underway, but the online retailer is not the only store offering up deals right now. Walmart's Deals & More event is also live this week from June 22 through 28, and one of the deals is a great discount on the "Hatchin' Yoshi" interactive toy inspired by the cute little dinosaur's appearance in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. Walmart is selling the figure for $30 during the event, which is 50% off its normal $60 price.
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Walmart is selling the fi
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Hideo Kojima Says Every Publisher Told Him His Idea For OD Was “Crazy”
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Game developer Hideo Kojima has shared new details about one of his upcoming games, the horror title OD that he's making in partnership with Xbox. In addition to calling it "a new game system," he said it includes a feature for people who might get too scared by it.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Kojima said his aim with the game was to "do something new" and "do something different." He said he first came up with the concept for OD when he was making the original Death Stranding years ago."I
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AMD’s FSR Upscaling 4.1 Comes To Older GPUs, Steam Machine And Xbox ROG Ally Support On The Way
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AMD has announced that owners of RDNA 3 GPUs can now enjoy the benefits offered by its latest version of AI-powered upscaling, FSR 4.1. This comes a few weeks earlier than its July estimate, with the promise for more devices down the line, too.FSR Upscaling 4.1 functions similarly to other upscaling technologies on the market, and comes much closer to the performance and quality of Nvidia's market-leading DLSS than previous iterations. It's the same technology that underpins the PlayStation 5 Pr
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Death Stranding Movie Is A “Two-Hour Art Movie,” Kojima Says, Admitting It Might Not Work
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Hideo Kojima has shared new insight into the Death Stranding movie, while director Michael Sarnoski has revealed a key detail about it as well.Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Kojima said he wanted to "try a different path" with the adaptation of Death Stranding for film. That path, he said, is to make a "two-hour art movie" as opposed to re-telling the story of the games.Kojima admitted this plan might not work.
"I don't know if this will be successful, but that's the goal," he said.The Death
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The Internet Has Some Thoughts On The Steam Machine’s $1,000+ Price
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Valve has officially announced the Steam Machine's price, and if you're looking to get one of the not-consoles when they launch on June 30, you're going to have to spend over $1,000 at minimum. As you can probably guess, eager players on the internet were not exactly thrilled by that news, and they let their voices be heard on social media.
Some questioned if the Steam Machine should even be released at all at this point, pointing to the massive price tag that was required as AI puts a strain on
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Supergirl’s Milly Alcock Reacts To Seeing Her Fortnite Skin
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Epic Games is teaming up with DC and Warner Bros. to bring Milly Alcock's Supergirl to Fortnite, alongside her cute little pooch Krypto.Epic has posted a video showing Alcock's reaction to seeing her Supergirl outfit in the game. "I think it's pretty cool," she said. While she's excited to see her Supergirl come to Fortnite, she thinks her canine companion will steal the show. "I think I will soon be forgotten and Krypto will reign," she said.Alcock also had a plea for people playing Fortnite wi
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Valve Is Making It Easier To Build Your Own Steam Machine
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The specs and pricing for Steam Machine have been revealed, and the preorders are opening soon. But if you'd rather sidestep that headache and build your own Steam Machine, Valve is officially making it easier for players to do so.While speaking with The Verge, Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais confirmed that the recently launched SteamOS 3.8.10 is part of the company's ongoing attempts to make the Steam operating system "more compatible with desktop hardware." That includes "improved compatibility"
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The Steam Machine’s Original Price Would’ve Given Valve’s Machine A Much Better Shot
via gamespot.comValve's Steam Machine finally has a price, and its far steeper than anyone was likely imagining. That goes for Valve, too, with the company indicating that its original target was significantly less, and would've made a lot more sense for the hardware on offer.Speaking to both IGN and Aftermath, engineers from Valve indicated that the Steam Machine's price increased similarly to that of the Steam Deck, whose own price was increased by around 35% for the base model (and closer to 50% for the 1TB
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Steam Machine Is NOT A Console, Valve Says
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Valve has finally announced the price of the new Steam Machine, and it'll be over $1,000 when it launches on June 30. In addition to confirming the price and release date, Valve published a new FAQ that runs through some key particulars about the system, including how it is not meant to be described as a console."We think of Steam Machine as an extension of PC gaming, not as a console," Valve said.This is not a game console.In making its point, Valve said a console like an Xbox or PlayStation de
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Ocarina Of Time Fan Project Bows Out Before Nintendo Comes Knocking
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A fan recreating Ocarina of Time has scrapped the project, citing fears of "Nintendo ninjas" following the official announcement of the Switch 2 remake.According to IGN, YouTuber CryZENx pulled the plug on their The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time PC recreation after at least a decade of working on it. In a blog post on their official Patreon, CryZENx told their community that the "Ocarina of Time project [has] officially stopped." CryZENx didn't provide an exact reason for the cancellation, bu
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Todd Howard On The Elder Scrolls 6: “We Need To Get It Right”
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The Elder Scrolls 6 is one of Xbox's most-anticipated upcoming games, and game director Todd Howard has now said the studio must stick the landing.Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Howard confirmed that the majority of the developers at Bethesda Game Studios are working on The Elder Scrolls 6 currently.
"We know we need to get it right and it's been a long time," he said.Indeed it has been a long time. The game was announced more than eight years ago now, and to date, only one video has been rel
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Play As Nicolas Cage In Call of Duty For Season 4 Reloaded
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Season 4 Reloaded arrives later this week, and award winning actor Nicolas Cage will join Call of Duty's growing list of operators for Black Ops 7 and Warzone. In addition to the Hollywood star, Season 4 Reloaded includes new weapons, limited-time events, and the Kowakujo Zombies map. The popular Black Ops Classic mode also becomes a permanent addition in Black Ops 7.Season 4 Reloaded goes live on June 25, and this midseason refresh is themed as Call of Duty's Summer of Action update. All of the
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Steam Machine Impressions: A Tiny Box With Big Trade-Offs
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Ahead of its launch on June 30, reviews and impressions on Valve's Steam Machine have arrived. Designed to be a living room PC, the compact unit is launching during an expensive time for gamers, as the ongoing memory and storage crisis, coupled with AI data center demands, has seen an explosive surge in hardware prices. Is the Steam Machine worth its price?
According to impressions from various outlets, Valve has managed to cram an impressive amount of hardware into the small PC gaming cube
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Someone Made A Single-Player Version Of World Of Warcraft, Powered By AI
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One World of Warcraft player has created their own private version of Azeroth, populated not by other players, but with AI-powered bots. As detailed on the wowservers subreddit, user Mr-Nilsson_85 explained how they created a "proof of concept" of what a Wrath of the Lich King-era WoW server played entirely by bots looks like, turning one of the world's premier MMORPGs into what is essentially a single-player game. The server hosts 1,800 bot "players" that go about playing the game as real
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Xbox Is Working On A Dozen Movies And TV Shows, Including Sea Of Thieves
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Xbox is going full steam ahead with a slate of films and TV shows, which now includes a live-action adaptation of Rare's 2018 pirate-filled, social-sim adventure game, Sea of Thieves.According to a June 22 Entertainment Weekly report, Xbox has "over a dozen adaptations in the works." Some of these projects are already known--Death Stranding is getting a film, Netflix is fully supporting an animated and live-action Gears movie, Fallout has a new season, and Minecraft is getting a sequel film.But
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Steam Machine Price and Release Date Officially Confirmed By Valve
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At long last, Valve has revealed the price for its highly anticipated Steam Machine. The system will officially cost $1,049 for its 512GB version without a Steam Controller and it launches on June 30. From there, the price increases to $1,349 for the 2TB model without a controller, and $1,428 with a controller.Though not Valve's first attempt at offering a Steam-branded PC for the living room, the Steam Machine is arguably its most exciting. The system runs on Valve's own SteamOS, similarly to t
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God Of War Has Been Building Toward Laufey For Almost A Decade
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Just how far in advance was God of War Laufey planned by its developer, Sony Santa Monica Studio? Almost a decade ago, as actress Deborah Ann Woll--who provided the motion capture and voice acting for the game's protagonist, Faye--recently spoke about how she first heard about the project in 2018."I've known about this for nearly 10 years, and I haven't been able to talk about it," Woll said to CGM. According to Woll, God of War 2018 director Cory Barlog first pitched the idea to her back then,
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God Of War Laufey Actor Says The Game’s Story Is Not About Gender
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Actor Deborah Ann Woll, who plays the main character Laufey AKA Faye in God of War Laufey, has further discussed the game and its story. The previous God of War games featured Kratos in the lead role, but Laufey focuses on Faye's story. Woll said in an interview that it feels "extraordinary" to think that some people will play the God of War game because the main character is a woman, and a woman played by a popular actor like she is.
"We need as much diversity as possible within these stories s
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Elden Ring, Death Stranding Movie Studio Signs Deal With Google For AI-Training
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Google is investing $75 million into the privately owned movie studio A24 for AI-based research, according to sources speaking to The Wall Street Journal. A24 is the film studio making the Elden Ring movie from director Alex Garland. It's also behind the upcoming Death Stranding movie from Pig director Michael Sarnoski.
Google is already heavily invested in the media space with its juggernaut YouTube platform, but this would be Google's first investment in a movie studio.In a blog post, Google c
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Elden Ring, Death Stranding Movie Studio Gets $75 Million From Google For AI Research, Report Says
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Google is investing $75 million into the privately owned movie studio A24 for AI-based research, according to sources speaking to The Wall Street Journal. A24 is the film studio making the Elden Ring movie from director Alex Garland. It's also behind the upcoming Death Stranding movie from Pig director Michael Sarnoski.
Google is already heavily invested in the media space with its juggernaut YouTube platform, but this would be Google's first investment in a movie studio.According to the report,
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CD Projekt Boss Says Reputation Not Fully Healed After Cyberpunk 2077 Catastrophe
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CD Projekt joint CEO Michał Nowakowski understands that some fans of the developer have lost faith in the company "indefinitely" following the Cyberpunk 2077 catastrophe. At the same time, the executive said the Polish developer feels optimistic about its chances to "make it back" with The Witcher 4.Speaking to Edge (by way of GamesRadar), Nowakowski said Cyberpunk 2077's troubled launch in December 2020 was "heartbreaking" for the studio.
For anyone just catching up, Cyberpunk 2077 l
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This $1,000 Steam Game Offers Very Little, But At Least It’s Honest About It
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With people wondering if GTA 6 preorders will kickstart a new $80 era for standard edition PS5 and Xbox Series X|S games, one new release on Steam already has Rockstar Games beat: Congratulations On Your Purchase. The new red carpet-simulator launched not too long ago, and it can be yours for the mere price of $1,000.Designed to be a "first-person luxury experience" set inside a palace, the Steam listing says that players can expect a red carpet, a chandelier, and a velvet rope barrier to protec
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GTA 6’s “Leaked” Sky-High Prices May Be Placeholders, But Could Be “Possible And Plausible”
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GTA 6 preorders go live on June 25, and ahead of that, one retailer posted listings for the game showing higher-than-expected price points. A prominent and reliable reporter, however, has said those were just placeholders. At the same time, industry analysts have weighed in on the price points, saying they may not be all that farfetched.
The retailer FNAC listed GTA 6's standard edition at €89.99, which is about $103 USD. The listings scaled all the way up to €199.99 ($230 USD). Howeve
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GTA 6’s “Leaked” Prices Are Probably Bogus, Reliable Insider Says
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GTA 6 preorders go live on June 25, and ahead of that, one retailer posted listings for the game showing higher-than-expected price points. A prominent and reliable reporter, however, has said those were just placeholders.The retailer fnac listed GTA 6's standard edition at €89.99, which is about $103 USD. The listings scaled all the way up to €199.99 ($230 USD). However, billbil-kun of the magazine Dealabs said these listings are just placeholders.
"So those prices are random ones," t
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