I'm calling it here—this is as bad as it's gonna get. Insomniac's Wolverine has been getting slapped around a fair bit because it's perhaps the summit, the zenith—of 'how much handholding can you put in a game before we all get sick of it'. And listen, I've actually defended yellow paint on this site before. I am in agreement with most developers that a little guidance is good. Players do...

This appeared on my X feed this morning and it's been bouncing around in my brain since I saw it. Titled as the "first $100,000 RAM kit" it caught my eye. The first thing to note is that this is, inevitably, server grade memory, and 2 TB of the stuff as well.It's DDR5-5600 of ECC RDIMM in a 16-pack kit for precisely $101,451.99 at Amazon, for all you server engineers...

You do not, as a rule, see studios respond to rumours, reports, and speculation, but a recent Bloomberg report that Sony dropped Physint, Kojima Productions' upcoming stealth game, because it was overbudget and kept missing deadlines must have rankled the studio a little, because it released the statement above yesterday to quell fears.To quell fears of what? Well, mostly that the relationship between Hideo Kojima and Sony has gotten as...

As reported by Kotaku, the organizers of the Tokyo Game Show have announced that its final day has been canceled and tickets for Monday, September 21 will be refunded. This was supposed to be the first five-day event in TGS' 30-year run⁠—while I am not a superstitious man, God or karma or something may be trying to tell us that it's just supposed to be a four-day deal."Due to the...

Modder Doneda has released a particularly funky and exciting mod for elden Ring Nightreign, porting Dark Souls 2's Frozen Eleum Loyce and Frigid Outskirts as a standalone map. They also have a trailer up for the project on YouTube. Doneda's a bit of a Dark Souls 2 expert⁠—they previously restored the remains of a cut sewers map to the sequel for demonstration purposes.Gun to my head, I think the Brume...

In 2013, Valve head honcho Gabe Newell spoke to students at the LBJ School of Public Affairs in Austin about "Productivity, Economics, Political Institutions & The Future of Corporations." It was a much more interesting topic than that makes it sounds, and has been doing the rounds again thanks to being sliced up into shorts by the Webknower channel. One clip that's been going around is Newell's response to being...

As reported by IGN, a trove of data from Rockstar has made its way online, with the big ticket items being Grand Theft Auto 5's source code, remnants of canceled GTA5 singleplayer DLC, as well as an early version of GTA6's map that can be loaded into the prior game.It's unclear how or why the data is making the rounds now, but the consensus appears to be that it was...

Baldur's Gate 3 is pretty great right out of the box, but it could be argued that its second act lacks some variety. If you aren't endlessly dazzled by shadowy forests and J.K. Simmons, you might have wished you could hang out after the family drama in the Shadow-Cursed Lands is sorted and explore some less gloomy vistas before arriving in the game's eponymous metropolis. As always, modders have you...

In Dec. 2023, The New York Times filed one of the biggest copyright lawsuits in recent memory against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that its AI models heisted ludicrous amounts of journalistic work from the Times. Two days ago, a court filing (hosted and analyzed by Ars Technica) was newly unsealed with all sorts of revealing quotes from higher-ups at Microsoft and OpenAI (thanks, Tech Crunch).Perhaps the most shocking sentiments are...

A lamentable fact of our hobby is this: time marches on. Because our games have to be rendered in real-time by whatever tech we load them onto, they inevitably end up harder to run as the years wear on, and the gap grows between the tech we have and the tech the games were designed to run on. On PC, the task of keeping those games running tends to end...