Xbox senior business strategy manager Brandon Stirrup is tired of pussyfooting around about AI: In a thread on X his week, he said that he wants the world to know that Xbox uses it, that he thinks everyone should be using it, and that he believes so strongly in the cause that he's willing to "take the hit" for saying so. He has since deleted his X account. A source...

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.Saint Moses the Black, who converted from a life of crime to one of ascetic anchoritism, once told his brothers that...

The GameSir Nova Lite 2 is our new best budget controller for PC. It's extremely well equipped considering the small asking price. Depart with just $30/£30 of your hard-earned cash, and you'll receive a wireless controller with Hall effect sticks, mechanical D-pad, trigger stops, and programmable rear buttons.There's enough here that even GameSir's own exceedingly popular G7 Pro is at risk of cannibalisation. The Nova Lite 2 doesn't look that...

Volume.art is a nice, free, cool thing on the internet, and I just think that's something worth celebrating these days. The microgame collection sees you manipulating volume sliders through various abstracted, surprising, and very funny ways.It starts strong with "A man named Bow" by Alice Bottino, which kinda reminds me of the Smash Bros Home Run Contest minigame, at least as far as you're winding up to send something from...

At a glanceThe rough prototype looks to have been binned early in development, and it's largely avoided discussion before Doneda's work.Some portions appear to have been part of an interconnected area, others are likely different versions of the same concept.It may have been related to what became the Undead Crypt in the final game.Doneda uses Elden Ring Nightreign to load in and explore what remains of the levels.The files contain...

Gamedev may as well be conducted in a black box as far as many players are concerned, so it can be easy to think of a good game as one where development went smoothly and a bad game as one where things went terribly awry. But in the case of The Outlast Trials, making something sickeningly good took a lot of struggle.As Red Barrels co-founder Philippe Morin told Gamespot in...

This one is thin, man, but it has to do with one of my favorite games of all time, while the circumstances of the rumor are just kind of neat and weird, even if it turns out to be nothing. User Few_Interview8222 on the Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines subreddit reported back from a Genitorturers show in Brooklyn, New York. Partway through the set, the band supposedly told the crowd...

At a glance:Qualcomm gets $2 from Arm in the Delaware jury's decision, part of a yearslong licensing dispute between the two.Yahoo Finance puts their market caps at $210 billion and $243 billion respectively.Qualcomm alleges bad faith action by Arm over tech licensed by the former company from the latter.Qualcomm won $1 on its allegations of Arm withholding contractually obligated support on the licensed tech, and $1 on allegations Arm interfered...

Every time I check in on Star Wars, there's a new stupid little creature (colloquially known as a Glup Shitto) everyone's into. The latest of these is Biddy Blas, a braggadocious pod racer and mama's boy who stands out for his shrill Huttese quips. "Ding dong pookie, ding dong," he crows. "Scrib doon!" If you love that, here's a video of him doing a little victory dance. Biddy Blas victory...

Per the United Wizards of the Coast Union (UWOTC-CWA) account on X, WoTC is acting in an entirely unsurprising manner: "Yesterday, Wizards informed us that it doesn’t intend to voluntarily recognize the D&D or Studio X units of our union ahead of a vote. We remain committed to creating a workplace focused on wellness, transparency, and collaboration by winning our coming election." A union composed of employees from the Magic:...