Variety reports that Amazon is developing a Wolfenstein TV series with Patrick Somerville, who made post-apocalyptic miniseries Station Eleven and wrote some of HBO's The Leftovers (a show with a genuinely good twist), and Kilter Films, the production company behind Amazon's Fallout TV show.Variety says that the show's being pitched with the one-sentence description: "The story of killing Nazis is evergreen."That echoes the tone of the recent Wolfenstein games from...

The ear is the most convincing part of Reddit user Ipyreable's post that claims artwork posted by official Diablo Immortal social media accounts was created with generative AI. Human ears simply do not look like that, even in the fantasy universes of Warcraft and Diablo.The art, which depicts a Warcraft character playing Hearthstone against a Diablo Immortal character to promote an upcoming crossover event, has several other strange artifacts that...

In a lengthy interview with YouTuber Zalkar Saliev (TikTok, Instagram), Valve co-founder Gabe Newell attributed his billions to "luck" and "being surrounded by great people."Asked whether there's a difference between enormously wealthy entrepreneurs and everyone else, Newell said that the only reason to think so comes from "unsound" analysis. (The topic comes up around 30 minutes into the video.)"There's this thing called survivor bias, where if you study the people...

"Walking. Sprinting. That's all we need," declared the prophet JoovYT, a YouTuber with a bone to pick with how we sprint in shooters these days.In the 21-second video captioned "My Battlefield 6 wishlist," Joov makes a fierce case that Battlefield 6, and any other FPS for that matter, need not offer two different sprint speeds.Well, "makes a case" might be an overstatement: he just insists that tac sprinting is bad...

Survival MMO Dune: Awakening got off to a strong start in June, but here at the tail end of July it's gotten stuck in a bit of quicksand. Even making changes to the controversial chopper-heavy endgame hasn't stopped recent Steam reviews from sliding to "Mixed," and despite several patches to squash exploits and hackers, cheating and griefing remains a problem.A bit more bad news arrived today: Steam Family Sharing for...

As Richard Nixon famously remarked, "We are all Dungeons and Dragons guys now." The popularity of stuff like Critical Role and the fact the government mandates we all have, at minimum, one Baldur's Gate 3 tattoo now means absolutely everyone is at least a little Faerûn-pilled these days. And if you're desperately hungry for more D&D content, then, well, you should probably not actually pick up Humble's latest bundle. Sorry.Unless...

The Financial Times recently published an investigation into chip exports during an early three-month phase in the Trump administration, when export controls were being tightened to prevent the sale of high-powered US AI hardware to China. According to the FT, at least $1 billion worth of Nvidia GPUs were shipped to those sanctioned shores during this period, although the exact method of their entry is under dispute.The FT says that...

It is with grim solemnity that I must share some terrible news: Destiny 2 has cheaters in it. Quite a lot of cheaters, actually—in fact, the majority of players in a top 100 ranking for the contest mode of The Desert Perpetual raid are stinkin', filthy, no-good hackers, why I oughtta.As spotted by @aquativityy on X (thanks, Forbes), RaidHub's top 100 leaderboard has narced tremendously on the top percentile of...

Today saw the full introduction of the requirements outlined in the Online Safety Act in the UK, requiring "robust" age checks for users to access adult content online. People have already managed to find ways around at least some of these verification requirements after *checks watch* less than 24 hours.Earlier today, our James stumbled across people using Sam Porter Bridges selfies to bypass Discord's age verification, from this post from...

I normally wouldn't inform you of a public slapfight between a developer and X users, but unfortunately, given the absolute fury-storm surrounding generative AI technology, and the fact this whole debacle's an illustrative point as to why all conversations surrounding it are tainted by ragebait, my hands are tied.Tim Soret—who got in deep water after espousing support for GamerGate years ago, then backtracked, then promised a comeback of his game...