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"For high-potential games, the 'AI stigma' is real and severely punishes developers who otherwise would have succeeded."

Are you building a gaming PC, or upgrading your existing one after finding a great Prime Day deal? I reckon you might have forgotten something. You'll need a specific screwdriver bit, or some fresh thermal paste, or perhaps even an upgraded PSU to power your fancy new components.I've got you covered. I've built many, many gaming PCs over the past 26 years, so I've spent the morning gathering up the...

I won't lie to you, I initially looked at July's game releases and drew a blank trying to name any bigish new games I'm looking forward to. It's definitely quiet this month, but take the lull as a chance to catch up. New game releases for 2026 ramp up again in the final stretch of the year—so much so that I'm already trying to carve out vacation days in my...

The time has finally come for Xbox's massive reset—in a statement on the official Xbox site today, recently-minted CEO Asha Sharma revealed the fate of several studios. I won't be focusing on them in this article (although you can read the words of my fellow PCG writer Andy Chalk first, if you'd like). Instead I want to highlight (with the deserved scrutiny of a post announcing the threatened livelihoods of...

While I wait for Diablo 4 to figure out its messy new season, the only game that has managed to tear me away from playing more Path of Exile 2 is Hell Clock.I should've known it would: Hell Clock's new Cursed War expansion was delayed to give PoE 2's season some time to breathe. The developers at Rogue Snail know their audience because they're part of it too: Action RPGs...

Hot off the news that repair shops have gained access to leaked internal Nvidia tools to gather RTX 50-series hotspot data, CPUID's HWMonitor has added its own hotspot thermal tracking info in the latest update.Version 1.65 adds two hotspot sensor data rows within the graphics card column for RTX 50-series cards, right underneath the traditional GPU and memory average temperature data. This should make it easier for users to diagnose...

Remember that photo which stirred all sorts of talk about Amazon's upcoming God of War TV series? Well, the show won't look like that anymore—the role of Kratos is set to be recast since actor Ryan Hurst tore a bicep on set, according to Deadline. Anonymous sources in that story claim Hurst has had surgery and is recovering.As Deadline points out, this comes after Hurst "underwent a physical transformation" and...

Palworld, as our breeding guide shows, lets you accomplish some wild things by playing matchmaker for your creatures. You can gain early access to late-game Pals, spawn variant subspecies, and—as players have recently discovered—breed a genetic monstrosity that can repeatedly blow itself up in combat without taking any damage in the process.This exciting advancement in living munitions development was uncovered by Japanese X user @gn02759909, who demonstrated that they "accidentally...

Fantasy RPGs have become too comfortable with delivering the expected gaggle of familiar character concepts. Archers, monks, paladins, you know the drill. I've seen it all before! Give me, I don't know, a Viking that shoots triple-barreled laser guns out of its dual shields, which also have metal claws, you know? Final Fantasy 14 knows what I'm talking about—down to the last detail, in fact. Indeed, the first new job...