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Elden Ring Nightreign players sick of Everdark Augur boss can't even pretend to be sad there's a glitch that makes it jump off the edge of the map: "Nightlord felled… off the map"
News I will always remember you, Everdark Augur
Steam founder Gabe Newell predicts AI will be "10 times as significant as the impact of CGI," tells film directors to act more like 19-year-olds with chatbot girlfriends and "actually use this tool"
News OK, Steven Spielberg
Hideo Kojima corrects himself with a flex, says actually 79.5% of Death Stranding 2 players "are continuing to play" past its ending instead of the 79% he first reported: "Please keep enjoying the game"
News Good job, Kojima - from Kojima
"This is a monumental moment": Weeks after Microsoft laid off 9,000, Call of Duty devs vote to ratify union contract guaranteeing raises as the publisher pushes AI
News "It feels like we've been sprinting a marathon"
GOG preservationists hit back at "censorship in gaming" by making a bunch of notable NSFW games free-to-own for a limited time: "If a game is legal and responsibly made, players should be able to enjoy it"
News Fight for your right to be inappropriate
Weapons lead Josh Brolin was drawn to Barbarian director's queasy new project "because psychologically, you want to keep confronting things like" toxic masculinity: "This staunch masculinity, I get very sickened by"
News I'm sure all the blood doesn't help
The first FPS from horror publisher Blumhouse is an unexpected blend of Resident Evil, Bloodborne, and mermaid folk horror, and it shouldn't work – but it does
Hands-on Hands-on Horror Special | Crisol: Theater of Idols is strange enough to stand out from the crowd of Resident Evil-likes
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leads predict rise in "AA-class games" as production costs reach ridiculous heights, say only GTA 6 maker Rockstar "is able to meet that demand"
News Who needs AAA when you have a baguette?
EA exec says The Sims 5 is "not a good idea for our community" because The Sims 4 got so much DLC: "What I wouldn't want to have happen is you to have to start from day zero"
News Sadness in Sim City
Oh, that's how EA apparently expects Battlefield 6 to get 100 million players: it seems to have its own Warzone-style battle royale mode, "coming soon to Battlefield Labs"
News "WARZONE FINALLY HAS SOME COMPETITION"
Bloober devs say "there is something" of Silent Hill 1 and 2 in "all our horrors," but "we needed to invent something different" for new sci-fi game Cronos: The New Dawn
News James Sunderland would never make it in Poland
Cozy life sim Hello Kitty Island Adventure adds puny little dustball with no prospects, and I would cry from joy if I weren't so afraid of melting her bones into smaller, more miniscule pieces of dust: "Peak has returned"
News Say hello to your leader, Cogimyun
Silent Hill 2 remake developer Bloober casually confirms Cronos: The New Dawn release date is imminent during Nintendo Direct, with the new horror game set to release in September
News Oh, OK!
Hideo Kojima learned "so many ways to kill people" in training, says it's "kind of sad" many devs "don't know how to dismantle a gun or shoot a gun" despite making military games
News Wait, what training?
"Witness the beauty and power" of Nier Automata's collab with The First Descendant in a new trailer that feels like an accurate simulation of what it would be like to hide in 2B's walls
News Am I being held hostage? Is she?
Bloober devs say Cronos: The New Dawn is a "strange combination" of horror greats like Silent Hill, Dead Space, and Bloodborne, but they wanted a sci-fi story "deeper" than a typical Resident Evil: "Not to offend, of course"
News Welcome to paradise
Silent Hill f writer says the upcoming horror game blends supernatural and psychological horror the same way "salad dressing" combines herbs and oil, and I don't know if I'm getting hungry or scared
News But is it dairy-free?
Despite killing Wonder Woman and reportedly losing over $200 million on live service games, Warner Bros. is hiring for a new live service game
News Good idea
Bloober's Cronos: The New Dawn is like Dead Space in Hell, but it has a cool female protagonist because the devs say that's simply "more interesting"
News Girls just want to have inter-dimensional horror beyond comprehension
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers reaches holy land of "Mixed" 40% positive Steam reviews after emergency patches, and like every other modern Soulslike, the devs are also targeting "difficulty levels and boss encounters"
News Congratulations on your mixed reviews
After 2 hours with the Silent Hill 2 dev's slimy sci-fi beast, Cronos, I'm thrilled it has Dead Space DNA and the soul of Resident Evil: "This is more like a love letter to survival horror than to Poland"
Horror Special | Or, "How to spend two hours in Nowa Huta" – Cronos: The New Dawn is shaping up to be full of terrifying delights
Players debate characters' looks in everything from Marvel Rivals to The Witcher 3, but Silent Hill 2 devs sent them a warning 24 years ago: "Maria was sexier when we first started out, but her plunging neckline gave us too many technical problems"
News The polygons were too beautiful
Barbarian director's new Weapons movie gets Fortnite tie-in in "bold" decision to promote its story about children going missing by introducing them to ganks
News Guys, I don't know about this
