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Fable director says they aren't 'scared of other big games' except one—it's GTA 6, in case you were living under a rock
News "There's just one that I'm happy to avoid entirely."
id Software's former co-owner says they absolutely would've used gen AI back in the day: 'John Carmack would be like making Skynet or something'
News "I make this joke that someone needs to come up with the 'Half-Life 2 of AI'."
Netflix is likely pleased as punch with the GTA 6 extended look, which more than doubled its web traffic
News Done deal.
Almost 20 years later, Arkane's founder says he understands why Valve cancelled the Ravenholm game that never was: 'It all came down to the economics'
News "We grew up and got a little bit more mature about it."
Warlock's take on D&D magic might make me willing to sell my soul
Friendship is magic Or at least rent it out.
The Witcher 3 Remastered makes the original's best HD mod obsolete, but only because that same modder's been working on the real deal
News Making it to the big leagues.
Crimson Desert will be slowing down its free updates in preparation for its paid DLC, and I'm just glad Pearl Abyss is finally pacing itself
News Free stuff is great, but it's reasonable to get paid at some point.
Metro 2039 devs say the ongoing war in Ukraine has changed how they write morality: 'The franchise's very nature is getting too close to reality'
News "Our team has been living in a state of war for the last four and a half years."
Rockstar responds to GTA 6 leaks: 'This is not how we intended for you see the game after all this time'
News The studio has described the leaks as "heartbreaking for our team".
Crimson Desert's 2.0 update's most surprising change is an effort to make Kliff a fully realised character with thoughts and opinions
News Kliff climbing.
Hideo Kojima wants to 'continue to focus on making games' at 63, even as 'the time I have decreases'
News "I need to constantly scrutinize how I use my time and how I live my life."
As Take-Two seeks IP addresses and phone numbers of thousands in GTA 6 subpoena, Discord says it's not been served the order just yet
News "We'll evaluate the validity and scope before responding."
'The Guild' movie revival becomes highest-funded Kickstarter film ever, filling me with millennial nostalgia and making me very nervous
News Massively multi-funded online roleplaying movie.
Twitch hit with class-action lawsuit over Amazon AI training: 'Twitch sent no email, displayed no pop-up notification, and made no announcement'
News The system was opt-out because "nobody would opt in," admitted Twitch's chief product officer.
SWG lead's new MMO, Stars Reach, almost lost me—until I met an animal conservationist mayor
SPACED OUT Too much space to grow.
2XKO's shutdown has me feeling glum about Riot's future MMO—because I don't think the genre can survive corporate cut-and-run tactics
KNOCKOUT FALL 2XKO was losing money, but that doesn't mean it wasn't worth it.
Thanks to this Final Fantasy 14 roleplayer survey, I know exactly how basic my Warrior of Light's backstory is
News Hey, I'm moderately unique!
Take-Two lost $2.8 billion in market cap after GTA 6 leaks—but what's more shocking to me is it probably barely felt it
News Small pennies to Zelnick.
Miyazaki says FromSoftware obviously isn't done with singleplayer games despite the combo of Elden Ring: Nightreign and The Duskbloods
News "This is just something that happened to work out the way it did."
Former Arkane vets' new studio isn't going to try 'trend chasing', and in hindsight, thank God
News Lessons learned.
Redfall developers begged Microsoft to come back and finish its last patch: 'I know we don't work here anymore, but can we please release this?'
News "We then got laid off, but we had in the pipe version 1.4."
Take-Two's former AI guy is, in a twist, skeptical about AI now: 'The guy should be selling you the gold if he's actually got the gold'
News "If any of this sh*t actually did what people are billing it as, they would not be talking about it."
Fired Rockstar workers say you shouldn't boycott GTA 6 for them: 'We spent years pouring our hard work, skill, and creativity into making GTA'
News "That doesn't mean we want you to let Rockstar off the hook."
