Gaming

Days after a report emerged about them imposing an “AI-first” production model on the devs of a new Disney shooter, Epic Games have released a new version of their launcher…

Epic have announced that they’re rebuilding their Easy Anti-Cheat software in order to get their flagship battle royale Fortnite running on Linux configurations, after years of fretting that they…

With the launch of Season 5 for Battlefield 6, not only did players receive new maps, weapons and more, DICE has also snuck in some Easter eggs too! Given Season…

Using Google AI Studio, users aged 18 and over in select markets, including the United States, can create custom Android apps with AI and run them on their own devices…

Google Play is adding a batch of new discovery and social features for games, including a personalized Game Finder, timed competitive Sprints, and clip-sharing via its Sidekick overlay. The company…

UPDATE 21:37pm UK: In a follow-up tweet, Uchikoshi clarified that he’s still part of TooKyo Games and he hasn’t fallen out with fellow studio co-founder Kazutaka Kodaka. In fact, Kodaka…

Microsoft surveyed XBOX users about making future Fallout, Elder Scrolls, DOOM, Diablo, PHYSINT, and Minecraft games XBOX console exclusives. As the XBOX brand continues its major reset, one key change…

Most people think that the best decade to be an Avengers fan was in the ’10s and this makes sense. It was when the team became the most popular thing…

XIt’s a classic move: A villain, or sometimes a hero, inserts himself into a seemingly inescapable situation. Danger everywhere—no way out! But just as the good guys (or bad guys)…

“You’re so petty…and tiny!” As if XBOX wasn’t already making all the right moves on the gaming market (what with disc-to-digital going out to all users and the glorious Gears…

If I ever go looking for my significant other and find myself inside a planet-sized megamind that’s on the verge of gaining consciousness, I will not run around zapping the…

As part of Microsoft’s ongoing, physics-ignoring push to do more business with thousands fewer staff, games chief Asha Sharma has announced Xbox Labs: a new umbrella for Xbox’s R&D into…

Script kiddies with AI-enabled tools are busy tearing apart the idea of consoles being locked-down hardware. Xbox is now explicitly leaning in to the new era of AI-enabled game decompiles…

Rockstar Games has more than doubled its workforce to develop Grand Theft Auto 6, and is adamant that it won’t take another eight years to complete its next title. In…

Cyberleek, the leaker who’s been releasing footage from Grand Theft Auto 6 for weeks now, is seemingly done posting leaks. Cyberleek released another video today which supposedly shows the game’s…

Update: Following a request for comment, Ubisoft have confirmed that they are proposing to close Redlynx, affecting “up to 52 positions”, subject to negotiation under local labour laws. As regards…

Superman has reached a new level of popularity in the 2020s and last year’s Superman is a huge reason why. While there’s a cottage industry of people out there trying…

Shockwave Triggers – out now on PC and console Sometimes the best way to save the world is to turn an incoming wall of bullets into something useful. Shockwave Triggers…

Please, please, please do not use ‘123456’ as any kind of password. I know that may seem obvious, but apparently it bears repeating if a recent hack of Denmark’s Central…

Valve have officially discontinued the Valve Index VR kit, launching a 20%-off sale on its headset and controllers to get rid of any lingering stock. This was arguably an inevitable…

Xbox is reacting – uncharacteristically quickly – to the deluge of vibe-coded game ports, decompiles and recompiles we’ve been seeing online in recent weeks by establishing Xbox Labs, a new…

Four years after the release of Dead Space spiritual successor The Callisto Protocol, the co-creator of both, Glen Schofield (no relation), has now openly claimed that Callisto’s sub-par release state…

Microsoft’s gaming division is formalizing its embrace of the AI-driven modding revolution with a new internal unit called Xbox Labs, a small team charged with turning experimental technologies into products…

Spider-Man might be one of the most parodied characters of all time, simply due to also being one of the most well-known characters of anything, well, ever. Everyone knows who…

Dr Simon Hembt is counsel at Bird & Bird in Frankfurt, Germany. He advises games companies on IP, AI/tech, and media regulation. He co-edited Bird & Bird’s Game Plan 2026…

As American comedy series Saturday Night Live airs a sketch lampooning the November showdown between Grand Theft Auto 6 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake, a pair…

VisionQuest’s premiere hides a sneaky double introduction that Young Avengers fans won’t want to miss. The Disney+ show’s first two episodes plant the seeds for two fan-favorite heroes through clever…

The Steam client got a major new update today, with Big Picture Mode receiving the brunt of the attention. Most exciting, I guess, is that the previously beta-only screensaver feature…

A powerful search engine that organizes and provides access to vast information on the internet. UULE sends precise location information from your browser to Googles servers so that Google can…