Switch 2 sales have plummeted over the summer months compared to this time last year; accounting for a drop of nearly four million units. That's sure to be a warning sign for Nintendo, especially as the company increased the price for the handheld across the globe at the start of September—near the end of the period it's currently reporting—which could have an impact on future sales over the busy holiday...

Neither Critical Role diehards nor Hololive vtuber fans could've predicted that they'd work together to film a new tabletop roleplaying series. Shattered Legends is the product of a collaboration that might sound bizarre at first but makes perfect sense when you consider vtubers are basically just voice actors, like just about everyone else in Critical Role's orbit.Matt Mercer certainly sees them that way. He tells PC Gamer that filming Shattered...

Yesterday, after eight years of waiting, Bethesda finally gave The Elder Scrolls 6 a title: Sentinel. It then warned that, after eight years of waiting, more waiting is in store because "it'll be some time before we're ready to share more." Then Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, one of the industry's best-known and most reliable reporters, weighed in, saying the game is "still more than two years away."You know what comes next,...

On Tuesday, tens of millions of Americans voted in midterm elections to deliver a sweep of generational Democratic victories in federal and state races, reflecting a leftward electoral shift that's being interpreted as a nationwide rejection of Trumpism.But even as Republican candidates and incumbents suffered defeats in what had traditionally been considered some of the party's most entrenched strongholds, the midterms also issued a stinging rebuke to another major source...

It was a big night for Democrats in the US, as a "blue wave" saw the party retake control of Congress in what CNN called "a stunning blow to Trump." Among the night's big losers is former Halo composer Marty O'Donnell, whose run for Congress ended in a spectacular, crushing defeat—and then a dunk from his congressional opponent that can only be described as brutal.O'Donnell began his political career in...

Los Santos CustomsI'm modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I've done to Rockstar's baby, or check out what I got up to earlier.We are back. After a long sojourn to the centre of the self, I return—having completed a journey of discovery where...

New Blood Interactive has been around for more than a decade—it's celebrating its 12 year anniversary, in fact—and is still going strong. Dusk, Gloomwood, Amid Evil, Fallen Aces, Ultrakill—it's got an enviable catalogue that continues to grow. But CEO Dave Oshry is still imagining how it might end. By keeping the studio relatively small, letting everyone work remotely, and not putting all its eggs in a franchise basket and spitting...

Nexus Mods, the world's largest mod site and more or less a second home for anyone who's ever installed a Bethesda game, has new rules regarding AI-generated and AI-assisted mods on its platform. In short, it's taking a Steam-ish approach: no outright bans on AI content, but it's compulsory to disclose where it's been used in your mods, and to what extent."An outright ban will not eliminate AI from the...

A new kind of Steam problem has emerged: Games keep missing their release dates because Valve can't keep up with approving them.Several frustrated indie devs have publicly posted about the limbo status of their finished games in the past week—including the developers of Food Devils, Wheel Make It, and Cubic Earth—saying that their applications have gone unanswered after up to 20 days, despite Valve's listed review window of three to...

Saying that it believes "schools should have control over AI in their classrooms," Google announced today that it will turn off access to its AI tools for K-12 student accounts. But there's a catch: Along with those AI tools, it will also disable Google search functionality.In a blog post entitled "Designing responsible AI for learning," Chris Phillips, Google's vice president and general manager of education, extolled the virtues of AI...