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'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.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

'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.

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.

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?

Journey composer Austin Wintory played an unreleased song from his canceled 'dream job of all time' during the Game Developers Choice Awards, just to drive home that the industry's doing great
By Wes Fenlon published
News Host Sam Maggs also named several canceled games that will never see the light of day.
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