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"You don't outsource the things you're good at to AI."View the full article

Opinion | Escaping a long shadow with Robert RobertsonView the full article

Разработчики из российской студии Battlestate Games не спешат делиться информацией о продажах своего хардкорного эвакуационного шутера Escape from Tarkov, но первые выводы об успехах игры сделать уже можно.View the full article

There are very few indie games that have reached the widescale success that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has, becoming the most nominated game in the history of The Game Awards and breaking worldwide sales records. Clair Obscur is hailed for its incredible gameplay, story, and especially its masterpiece of a soundtrack. View the full article

The Magic: The Gathering card Bumi, Eclectic Earthbender has jumped in price from $14 to $34.70, a rise of 147% in the week since the cards were released. This card, from the MTG Jumpstart set, is eternal legal only, so we must look to the Commander format to see what has set it a'spiking. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: MTG scraps Monster Hunter Secret Lair five days before release and is "committed to doing better" 9 rising MTG Avatar The Last Airbender cards you don't want to sleep on This cracked Red MTG deck wins in 3 turns, and it's boosted one uncommon card's price 500% View the full article

Grand Theft Auto 6 fans have had a tumultuous year, with their worst fears coming true after multiple delays. These various delays and growing speculation over behind-the-scenes issues at Rockstar have raised deep concerns over the future of the game and its eventual release, and players are questioning whether the hype is going to be worth it in the end. View the full article

Another week, another flashpoint in the debate around the use of AI in game development. This time, it was Epic Games CEO and Fortnite boss Tim Sweeney who created the latest spark, claiming that AI disclosures like the ones found on Steam store pages make "no sense," his argument being that everyone will have to 'fess up to using it eventually as AI will become "involved in nearly all future production." A Valve developer has now had their say in a back-and-forth with the X user that Sweeney initially backed with his remarks, saying that "the only [people] afraid of this are the ones that know their product is low effort." Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Epic CEO says AI disclosures like Steam's make "no sense" because AI will be involved in "nearly all" future game development When is the next Steam *****? Surprise Steam update adds a new feature I never knew I needed View the full article

"...because the puppet master still holds the strings"View the full article

The latest Where Winds Meet update to hit ******** servers has just introduced one of the most transformative features yet, proving that Everstone Studio is willing to try just about anything on its quest to turn the Wuxia adventure into one of the best open-world games around. The new tool, roughly translated to 'Ink Structure' or 'Inkcraft,' lets you build custom vehicles piece by piece, in much the same sandbox fashion as beloved smash-em-up Besiege or, for the Nintendo fans among us, the Zonai device crafting in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Where Winds Meet players are tricking AI-powered NPCs into giving them rewards by using the 'Solid Snake method' Where Winds Meet codes November 2025 Wuxia action RPG Where Winds Meet rockets up the Steam charts, but its 'AI chatbot' NPCs have overshadowed the combat View the full article

"Elongate your neck just a bit please."View the full article

On November 27, Games Workshop dropped a cute fake news report onto its social media, in which a bewildered reporter meets enraged Warhammer 40k fans protesting the sheer lack of releases for the Ultramarines this year. It's a goof, of course - the Ultramarines have had an unexpected windfall of releases and reveals in the last two months. Since the firm doesn't release videos this close to Christmas just for fun, it's almost certain that this is the start of a marketing campaign for something big - and there only a few Ultramarines releases it could possibly be. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: 12 killer anthems for Warhammer 40k, themed around your favorite armies - that aren't just more Sabaton Build a Trench Crusade warzone or a miniature wargame wasteland with this 3D model mega bundle, at 96% off Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2 just hit its lowest price ever for ****** Friday, and it's twice the game it was at launch View the full article

The Magic: The Gathering card Bumi, Eclectic Earthbender has jumped in price from $14 to $34.70, a rise of 147% in the week since the cards were released. This card, from the MTG Jumpstart set, is eternal legal only, so we must look to the Commander format to see what has set it a'spiking. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: MTG scraps Monster Hunter Secret Lair five days before release and is "committed to doing better" 9 rising MTG Avatar The Last Airbender cards you don't want to sleep on This cracked Red MTG deck wins in 3 turns, and it's boosted one uncommon card's price 500% View the full article

The unique world of Falloutoffers plenty of different mutated enemies or friends to populate the wasteland, but easily one of the most iconic is the zombie-like ghouls roaming the wasteland. While expanded lifespans, regenerative abilities, and resistance to radiation make ghouls sound like the perfect kind of person to survive Fallout's post-apocalyptic wasteland, they're often discriminated against or take a ********* due to their grotesque appearances. View the full article

Организаторы The Game Awards готовят множество анонсов и показов, однако одну игру обойдут стороной. Генеральный директор CD Projekt RED Михал Новаковский сообщил, что грядущая церемония вручения наград обойдётся без The Witcher 4. View the full article

Ubisoft не планирует выпускать второе масштабное дополнение для Assassin's Creed Shadows, о чём в интервью JorRaptor заявил младший руководитель разработки Симон Лемэ-Комтуа. Речь идёт о сюжетном DLC вроде «Когтей Авадзи», представленных в сентябре. View the full article

Including the Attack on Titan crossover the internet's been clowning onView the full article

Despite sitting alongside the big guns in our best survival games list, Icarus is a beautiful yet strange anomaly. While I feel constantly surrounded by news, hype, and controversy regarding the likes of Ark, Rust, or Valheim, Icarus quietly hums away in the background, despite its decently sized community. Arguably one of the best looking survival experiences on Steam, and packed with plenty of base game content and DLC expansions, it somehow drifts to the back of my mind. One thing I've always kept an eye out for, though, is Dangerous Horizons, an update that developer RocketWerkz (formed by ex-DayZ creator, Dean Hall) initially said would arrive in 2024, but has been mysteriously absent. Well, some new details about it have finally emerged, with RocketWerkz claiming it's been "hard at work preparing" for the new expansion. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Open-world survival game Icarus gets a fresh tier of apex weapons, and a new DLC Survival game Icarus reimagines boss encounters alongside new Great Hunts DLC Survival game Icarus has a new flamethrower, and is free to play for the weekend View the full article

A new Total War Warhammer 3 mod manager is now live for testing, and you'll definitely want to take a look at it if you've ever experimented with tweaking your experience. For all the ups and downs Creative Assembly's strategy behemoth has faced over the years, the best Total War Warhammer 3 mods have always been a reliable way to make one of the biggest and most impressive Warhammer games even better. Now, however, CA is finally in the process of replacing its legacy TW launcher with a new, custom-built mod management system, and it's in the process of gathering feedback before it makes the transition permanent. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Total War Warhammer 3 is finally giving its most underloved Chaos God the attention it deserves, and I can't wait Get Total War Warhammer 3 for just $15, and score seven other games for free Total War Warhammer 3 dev gets "pretty raw" on why armies stand around doing nothing, and you might need a new campaign View the full article

Vision Quench is the company's latest releaseView the full article

Ah, Sheriff of Nottingham. Back when I was a fresh-faced gamer, with only a handful of board games under my belt, you were the height of sneaky social deduction. You were the first tabletop title that compelled me to play over and over again. We may not have met for many years now, but I still cherish the memories we made together. And now, with Amazon US slashing your price by 41% for ****** Friday, you can make memories with a whole new audience. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: My favorite solo board game of all time is on ***** for ****** Friday, with a killer 24% discount If you only buy one ****** Friday board game deal, make it this $14 masterpiece The Great Library board game reveals how beautiful eurogames can be View the full article

Or a TV series / Movie project at leastView the full article

Amazon’s Fallout TV show is canon, so the question of which Fallout: New Vegas ending it will rubber stamp as official has been a burning question within the community ever since it was confirmed that Season 2 would take place in what remains of the city. But recent comments from one of the actors on the show suggest Season 2 will dodge the question entirely. Warning! Spoilers for Fallout Season 1 and Fallout New Vegas follow. The Fallout TV show is set after all the Fallout games and is considered canon, so when it was confirmed that Mr. House would be in Season 2, it sparked all sorts of fan theories about how he would make his live-action appearance, and what it would mean for Obsidian’s much-loved New Vegas itself. Robert House appears in New Vegas as Mr. House. He rules the Strip as a brain plugged into a supercomputer that has extended his existence from the pre-war era hundreds of years into the post-war era. Robert House makes a cameo appearance in Season 1 during a pre-war scene in which the then RobCo Industries boss plots with Vault-Tec management and the heads of other companies to not only survive the inevitable nuclear apocalypse, but maybe even trigger it. Season 1 ends with a Power Armor-clad Overseer Hank stomping towards New Vegas, with The Ghoul and Lucy MacLean in hot pursuit. Much of Season 2 — based on trailers released so far — will be set in New Vegas and deal with the coming together of the main characters there. A quick reminder of where we’re at in the Fallout timeline: the Fallout TV show is set in 2296, nine years after the events of Fallout 4 and 15 years after the events of Fallout: New Vegas. We’ve already seen a debate about which Fallout 4 ending should be considered canon, if any. And now we know Mr. House is in Season 2, does that suggest a canon ending is being used? Depending on the choices the player, aka The Courier, makes throughout the course of the game, New Vegas can end with victory for the player during the Battle of Hoover Dam, which drives out all factions including Mr. House himself, a victory for Mr. House in which he remains in control of New Vegas and takes over Hoover Dam, a victory for Caesar's Legion, or a victory for the New California Republic. There are variations within these endings, but given Mr. House is in Season 2 in a post-war setting, as in alive (sort of) when the main characters turn up at New Vegas, then it’s likely he survived the events of New Vegas the video game. But does Season 2 make a decision on who won Fallout New Vegas? In a new interview with The Spill, Aaron Moten, who plays Maximus, a Brotherhood of Steel squire, suggests not — and it sounds like this was a talking point among the cast and showrunners. “Actually, you know what's really interesting is our storyline, where we are in time, it's a number of years after the events of New Vegas,” Moten began when asked if Fallout fans will be surprised by the New Vegas they see in Season 2. “An interesting thing, a conversation Geneva [Robertson-Dworet, co-showrunner] and I have been having, was actually about how history is written in the wasteland by whoever writes it. And different perspectives will have a different perspective on who won and who lost. It's a really beautiful thing. We see it really early on that you guys [Ella Purnell’s Lucy and Walton Goggins’ The Ghoul] find out who believes themselves to be winning, and The Ghoul offering a different perspective.” So, based on these comments, it sounds like Season 2 will largely dodge the thorny issue of New Vegas canon and include pretty much every faction from the game to some degree. Indeed, trailers have shown Mr. House in supercomputer form and Caesar’s Legion, although it's unclear in what state they're in. So perhaps we’re in for a bit of a New Vegas mashup where everyone thinks they won the Battle of Hoover Dam. Moten's comments echo those of co-showrunners Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet last year: “All we really want the audience to know is that things have happened, so that there isn't an expectation that we pick the show up in season two, following one of the myriad canon endings that depend on your choices when you play [Fallout: New Vegas],” Wagner said. “With that post-credits stuff, we really wanted to imply, guys, the world has progressed, and the idea that the wasteland stays as it is decade-to-decade is preposterous to us. It’s just a place [of] constant tragedy, events, horrors — there's a constant churn of trauma. We're definitely implying more has occurred.” It won’t be long until we find out. Fallout Season 2 kicks off December 17. If you're hunting for the best offers this week, we're actively rounding up the strongest ****** Friday deals on video games, tech, and more. You can find all our top picks and price drops in our full ****** Friday hub, or check out our relevant pages for PlayStation, Nintendo, and Xbox deals. Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at *****@*****.tld. View the full article

The director of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 always believed the turned-based RPG was going to be "cool," but had no idea it would get this "big." Talking to Radio Times Gaming following this year's Golden Joysticks awards, creative director Guillaume Broche spoke candidly about the studio's work, admitting that the game's reception from fans and critics alike has been so unexpected, saying "nobody really understands what's happening." "I think people don't really realize that, now it's become big, but before the launch, it was not supposed to be big," Broche said. "I think we all felt the same thing. It's going to be cool. It's not going to be big, it's going to be cool. And what's happening today is like, as we say, nobody really understands what's happening. "It's a weird feeling, when you put your heart out into the world and the world embraces it and gives you so much love back. We get so much love from the players... it's so touching and incredible that it's very hard to explain." Ben Starr — who voices Verso in the RPG — feels the same, adding: "It was never intended to be as big as it is. It's turned into this kind of cultural moment, phenomenon, but that's just because the game is very honest, I think. And a lot of people have bought into that. "I don't think anyone expected this because it's a small game. No one expected those numbers, and we've all just been messaging each other thinking, this is, well, this is just silly. This is just silly now. Everyone just stop. It's a silly joke. But yeah, it's been very cool." Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 launched on April 24 across PC and console, but also straight into Xbox Game Pass as a day-one title. In IGN's 9/10 review of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, we described it as a "modern RPG classic," adding: "In so many ways, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 reminded me of numerous classic and contemporary RPGs I love, but developer Sandfall truly understood why those games are special and made the pieces it borrowed its own." Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has sold 5 million copies in five months, making it one of the biggest hits of the year. It also received a record-breaking 12 nominations at this year's The Game Awards, and is up for Best Direction, Best Narrative, Best Art Direction, Best Score and Music, Best Audio, Best Independent Game, Best Debut Independent Game, and Best RPG, as well as the ceremony's coveted Game of the Year gong. Three of its performers are also up for Best Performance. If that's convinced you to give it a go, be sure to check out our tips for the important things to know before going into Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. The studio recently published update 1.4.0, adding key features like a Battle Retry option alongside a host of quality-of-life changes, visual improvements, and bug fixes. If you're hunting for the best offers this week, we're actively rounding up the strongest ****** Friday deals on video games, tech, and more. You can find all our top picks and price drops in our full ****** Friday hub, or check out our relevant pages for PlayStation, Nintendo, and Xbox deals. Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, as well as a critic, columnist, and consultant with 15+ years experience working with some of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's also a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her at BlueSky. View the full article

Another interesting bundle of games here for you that you may want to pick up with some really nice stuff from Green Man Gaming. Read the full article here: [Hidden Content] View the full article

"Characters' actions were no longer solely dictated by the player, but also by their personalities"View the full article