• Arc Raiders devs Embark insist that using genAI for voice lines was necessary, as “actors would just go crazy if they had to read all of that”
  Nov 03, 12:32 PM
• “There’s always a night when Rome burns”: South Of Midnight director says that Xbox funding it was “unsustainable”, at least in hindsight
  Nov 03, 11:49 AM
• itch.io will soon let you filter games with genAI disclosures out of your search results on the site, after admitting it was previously “critically lacking”
  Nov 03, 10:12 AM
• You can make a vampire hunter who’s afraid of the dark, disease and small spaces in Hunter: The Reckoning - Deathwish, and that’s surely the best way to play
  Nov 02, 07:00 PM
• Fix up towering robots while battle rages outside in Bay 12: Mech Repair, a first-person job sim with some handsome heavy duty analog tech
  Nov 02, 05:30 PM
• Fewer genAI clones of “someone else’s specific game” should flood the net going forwards, as Anthropic tell Claude to stop messing with some stuff other people own
  Nov 02, 04:51 PM
• This week in PC games: go helldiving in Gravhounds, wreck a hoverbike in Airframe Ultra, or feed humans to a cutaway spaceship in Hull Rupture
  Nov 02, 01:34 PM
• Delve into “a deep underground facility full of secrets and horrors” in the latest Fallout 4 quest mod from the Commonwealth Story Expansion Project
  Nov 02, 12:36 PM
• Skyblivion modders reveal a former volunteer is “threatening to sue for damages upwards of €30,000” over work on the unofficial Oblivion remake project
  Nov 02, 11:51 AM
• As if the injury descriptions weren’t already ghastly enough in Dwarf Fortress, the legendary outpost builder is getting a “meat biome”
  Nov 02, 10:41 AM
• Gag Order is a co-op, SCP-ish horror shooter about surviving as best you can against some nasty, tentacle covered cephalopod creatures
  Nov 01, 10:56 PM
• Dune: Awakening’s seasonally appropriate Blood and Ice expansion gets a December release date, and in a plus for preservation, an offline mode this month
  Nov 01, 09:34 PM
• What remains of canned Portal prequel white whale F-Stop is now fully playable thanks to modders and some big leaks
  Nov 01, 07:08 PM
• Final Fantasy 14: Evercold sets itself a release date at the tail end of winter, alongside offering a look at its second, avian-inclined new job
  Nov 01, 06:07 PM
• It looks like footage of a Persona 1 remake has leaked, and if it’s legit I really hope you don’t hate the colour purple
  Nov 01, 05:17 PM
• Warframe’s fantasy-pilled sister Soulframe finally goes open to all this November, though Digital Extremes are “nervous” about certain changes
  Oct 30, 08:30 PM
• EA execs choosing Star Wars Battlefront 3 over Mass Effect 5 was the main factor in BioWare’s demise, according to report
  Oct 30, 04:00 PM
• Splendid Junji Ito-inspired RPG World of Horror is now 20% more horrible, thanks to a free PC update with extra gods, locations, and wounds
  Oct 30, 03:29 PM
• Rockstar developer union could end up over 1,600 workers strong and encompass nearly all UK staff below senior management, IWGB claim
  Oct 30, 01:30 PM
• Helldivers 2 boss can “absolutely see” making a game parody of generative AI, but it would need to be “quirky” rather than “doom-laden”
  Oct 30, 12:58 PM