Cancelled MMO spin-off Borderlands Online is playable once again, and the team behind the unofficial project thankfully didn't use any genAI to get it running #Gaming #MMORPG #RetroGaming
Take out some monsters and then turn them into take-out in the post-apocalyptic tycoon survival sim Midwest 90: Rapid City, out in early access next month #Gaming #IndieGame #Simulation
"Your word is undeniable truth": Can't be bothered to find evidence in Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy? It's fine, because no matter what, you're always right #Gaming #Warhammer #RPG
Jagex pull Runescape trailer and apologise for genAI use after complaints about six-fingered knights, pinning the blame on a "trusted external partner" #Gaming #AI #MMORPG
Some staff at Eternal Strands and ex-Ubisoft devs Yellow Brick Games report they've been laid off #Gaming #Layoffs #Industry
Bullet heaven battler Warhammer Survivors arrives in November, with a new demo out now to whet your appetite for destruction #Gaming #IndieGame #Warhammer
Sonic Team's Takashi Iizuka dismisses the apparent inevitability of remakes, saying "you're essentially providing the same experience again" #Gaming #RetroGaming #GameDev
Question passengers with tarot-like cards in Dreadline Express, a train mystery with the most intriguing conversation system I've played since Her Story #Gaming #IndieGame #Mystery
Star Wars Galactic Racer review: now this is frenetically fun podracing with a totally unforgiving streak #Gaming #StarWars #Racing
PlatinumGames CEO pauses a discussion on Stellar Blade's Bayonetta costume crossover to casually imply more Bayonetta may be on the way #Gaming #Bayonetta #PlatinumGames
Car Park Capital's cities are utopias of public transport networks and green living, or they were before I got done with them #Gaming #StrategyGames #Simulation
Retro platformer series Dizzy is back for a new game from its original creators, who are really happy for you to know it's made with AI #Gaming #RetroGaming #AI
Following through on their warning, Until Dawn and Directive 8020 devs Supermassive lay off "more than 70" staff #Gaming #Industry #Layoffs
After 12 years, Ultra Street Fighter IV gets not one, but two connection-stabilising rollback netcode mods aaaand they're both made using Claude #Gaming #FightingGames #PCGaming
Noematica is a lucid dreamer's "n-dimensional" take on The Sims that proudly boasts it will never ever gouge you for DLC #Gaming #Simulation #IndieGame
Claims that genAI speeds up PC ports of classic games are either "false" or missing the point, says Banjo Kazooie: Recompiled developer #Gaming #AI #PCGaming
"Even if I knew how it would end, I would do it again": Hellblade developers Ninja Theory appear to have kicked off the redundancy process #Gaming #IndieDev #News
GTA 6 writer says the series has never had "much focus on national politics" beyond GTA 4's war on terror, and the latest entry won't get "too specific" #Gaming #OpenWorld #Politics
"Coders will never forgive me for this level": Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 has a rotatable "fleshmetal" puzzle map that drove its own development team crazy #Gaming #Warhammer #IndieGame
This week in PC games: Star Wars: Galactic Racer, Hellraiser: Revival, and a throwback tycoon game about turning utopias into carparks #Gaming #PCGaming #IndieGame
RuneScape 4 is a new Unreal Engine MMO which reportedly grew out of a planned Dragonwilds expansion, though it's still a long way off #Gaming #MMORPG #UnrealEngine
"We opted out of some things really early on": How the small team making No Law plan to make it look as big as Cyberpunk 2077 #Gaming #IndieGameDev #PCGaming
The Sunday Papers #Gaming #PCGaming #IndieGame
The Other One: Jordan Magnuson's Game Poem jam is a fascinating collection of chimeras #Gaming #IndieGame #Poetry
What are we all playing this weekend? #Gaming #WeekendVibes #PCGaming
Desktop and handheld prices going out of control means PC bargain hunts lead to my old enemy: gaming laptops #Gaming #Hardware #PCGaming
"Support modders, not AI": Total War: Warhammer 3 mod "deliberately corrupted" by its own creator in protest of AI-infused unauthorised reuploads #Gaming #PCGaming #Mods
RAM shortages are only getting worse and will last until at least 2028, Micron boss declares from atop a mountain of money #Gaming #Hardware #Tech
AI-generated Fallout: New York browser game full of utterly cursed faces slapped with Bethesda cease and desist, its slop prompter claims #Gaming #AI #IndieGame
PUBG extraction shooter Black Budget canned less than a year from reveal, after Krafton decide it won't "deliver an experience players could enjoy over the long term" #Gaming #Shooter #PCGaming
If game developers steal one thing from No Law, I hope it's the open-world game's ridiculously detailed and realistic corner shops #Gaming #OpenWorld #IndieGame
Reigns and Card Shark developers Nerial are closing down, laying staff off while the founders go "back to our roots" #Gaming #IndieDev #Business
RetroSpace offers a huge sci-fi playground for inquisitive space janitors, but I'm not that System Shocked by the tools at your disposal #Gaming #SciFi #IndieGame
Control Resonant's New Game++ update also squashes some of my least favourite bugs, including the one where magic doors change my trousers #Gaming #PCGaming #IndieGame
I'm not sure the "AI" in my chair's lumbar support actually counts as AI, but it has been smart enough to help my posture #Gaming #Tech #AI
Capcom aren't just running out of Resident Evil games to remake - they're banking on it, with a mysterious "crossover" planned when the timelines collide #Gaming #ResidentEvil #Capcom
The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past's setting "felt like a really natural way to go", CD Projekt Red story director says, while parrying my attempts to breach the DLC's guard #Gaming #RPG #Fantasy
"We want people to try and outsmart the game": No Law aims for Arkane-style reactivity within a dangerous walled city #Gaming #IndieGame #ActionAdventure
"Xbox is not for sale" despite all of the layoffs and neat repackaging of studios within Microsoft's corporate structure, CEO Asha Sharma says #Gaming #Xbox #Microsoft
The Division developers Massive are now "the global brand" in charge of Splinter Cell and Ghost Recon, alongside a new Ubisoft dieselpunk MOBA #Gaming #Ubisoft #MOBA