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The Sims 4 - A woman makes an "ah hah!" face while holding a finger in the air.
'Sims don't plan anything' says former Sims 4 developer, though he always wanted to program them to: 'it's always shot down, rightfully so'

By Lauren Morton Published

News The Sims 4's original AI programmer always wanted to give sims the ability to plan their actions but it never stuck.

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The Sims 4- a white man with blonde hair wearing a blue sport coat crosses his arms and smiles
'I took those files and deleted them': Former Sims 4 developer says he totally rewrote the sims' AI in the middle of development and 'that was a scary thing to do'

By Lauren Morton Published

News The Sims 4's original lead AI programmer says he pitched the entire AI system not long before alpha and rewrote it from scratch.

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A pirate ship on an ocean in a work-in-progress screenshot from Ark: Survival Ascended
'Insanely punishing' survival game Atlas is being distilled 'into a more accessible form' for Ark: Survival Ascended's new DLC

By Christopher Livingston Published

News The Tides of Fortune update will let players craft a customizable ship and sail it across a simulated ocean.

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Overwatch tier list: Jetpack Cat flying towards the camera while carrying a Mauga.
Marvel Rivals made Blizzard ask 'what if we could just drop 30 new heroes into Overwatch?' and inspired its biggest update ever

By Tyler Wilde Published

news The competing hero shooter "definitely had an impact" on Blizzard.

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Baby Steps' designers trolled players by placing stacks of cans at the top of 'plausible' climbing challenges they didn't even bother testing, and players managed to climb them all—except one

By Wes Fenlon Published

News Baby Steps' designers accidentally made an impossible challenge, so players set out to prove it possible.

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A panel in the "GDC Luminaries" series of talks from GDC 2026, featuring four industry figures seated on stage.
Major investor is 'shocked and sad' that the games industry is 'demonizing' generative AI

By Tyler Wilde Published

news At GDC 2026, the rift between big tech and creative workers was easy to see.

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Arc Raiders: Key art for the game showing a character wearing makeshift armour and helmet, walking forward with a gun by their side. There are two more characters in the background overlayed by an orange and blue hue on the left and right respectively.
Amidst high profile live service failures, Arc Raiders production director says he hopes other studios are 'given the same chance we had, because it's so hard to put a game out'

By Lincoln Carpenter Published

News Arc Raiders got to reinvent itself. Many other games can't.

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'No matter what we changed, somebody was going to get mad:' After hearing what an Obsidian dev went through to get RPG difficulty right, I get why nobody's ever gotten RPG difficulty right

By Ted Litchfield Published

news There may not be an RPG with a proper difficulty curve.

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Arc Raiders: A raider standing with a gun in their right hand, looking upwards at something out of shot, surrounded by red smoke.
Arc Raiders could one day get vehicles, but Embark says no promises: 'We have prototypes from seven years ago'

By Morgan Park Published

NEWS Imagine gunning it across Spaceport on a dirt bike.

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The Discord logo is displayed on a smartphone screen and on a computer screen in Athens, Greece, on April 17, 2024. (Photo Illustration by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Over 48% of unreleased games have a Discord server, and I'm sure this is all fine and normal and I don't miss forums at all

By Harvey Randall Published

News How did we get here?

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