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'We made one big mistake': Destiny 2 developer reveals how a small team dedicated to player retention led to a 20 hour server outage and character rollback
By Phil Savage published
news A small team tasked with making the game better did a lot of good, but also made one major error.

Inzoi's 'Smart Zoi' AI system sounds great on paper but seeing it in a live demo didn't exactly wow me
By Christopher Livingston published
News AI is supposed to give the life sim's characters better reasoning, but I'll believe it when I actually see it.

'We all got laid off', says former Deck Nine narrative designer, after no-one was around to pick up Life is Strange: Double Exposure's GDC Awards win
By Harvey Randall published
News Bleak.

PC Gamer vindicated by Swen Vincke: Larian boss calls Balatro his personal GOTY as it sweeps top prize from devs at GDC awards
By Joshua Wolens published
News All well and good that Balatro got its plaudits, but what truly matters here is that we were right.

It's not for PC gamers but Razer's new AI QA Copilot could ultimately benefit every PC gamer out there, and it's looking like it could be a killer app that AI needs right now
By Nick Evanson last updated
news And there's a good chance that it becomes an example of AI improving someone's job, not replacing it.

Valve CMO threatened the company would walk away from games if it didn't own the rights to Half-Life—'It wasn't an idle threat—we weren't going to take on all of the risk to make other people rich'
By Rich Stanton published
News "Gabe had interesting ideas that had nothing to do with games."

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's director was 'starving for new turn-based RPGs,' and figured if he wanted them, there would be others out there who'd want to play his game
By Ted Litchfield published
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In this airship-building survival game, I faced an enemy worth punching trees over: 'The hubris of man'
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News I don't know if you can destroy mankind's wretched ambition with cannonballs, but I'm certainly going to try.
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