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Epic Reportedly Forces "AI-First" Rules on Disney Shooter

Epic Games has allegedly told the team behind an unannounced Marvel and Star Wars shooter to ditch hand-written code and art for AI tools instead.

No Man's Sky Is Heading to iPhone and iPad This October

Hello Games is squeezing its entire universe onto a phone screen, and the studio's next game helped make it possible.

Xbox CEO Warns of New IP or Bust, Right After Gutting Studios That Made New IP

Asha Sharma told staff Xbox "will not survive" without new IP, which is awkward timing after a wave of cancellations and studio shakeups.

Metro 2039 Preorders Are Live, Here's What You Get

Metro 2039 hits PS5, Xbox, and PC on February 4, and the preorder lineup ranges from a standard $69.99 copy to a $299.99 helmet-included collector's set.

Sony's $150 God of War Laufey Collector Box Skips the Actual Game

Sony's new God of War Laufey box has a light-up Faye statue and a card deck, but no game, no disc, no code, nothing.

Report: GTA 6 PC Version Targeting Early 2027

GamesBeat claims GTA 6's PC release has a target window, and it's sooner than Rockstar's usual wait.

Ben Affleck lost 3 years to Starcraft, has strong Valorant opinions, and mourns RTSes as a genre, so there's solid odds he's one of our regular commenters

Unlike PC Gamer's UK editorial staff, Ben Affleck knows ball. Metaphorically, I mean. Though he probably also knows what the Miami Heat is. Speaking on the October 12 episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Affleck reflected—with a touch of regret—on the time Starcraft swallowed his entire life."There was a game called Starcraft that probably took the most life out of me for a period of…

Rockstar's Multi-Million Dollar Miami Takeover Continues to Expand Ahead of GTA 6 Launch, Despite Protests from Some Officials

Rockstar Games is continuing to ramp up GTA 6's massive marketing with a Vice City blimp, NFL promos, and much more, despite protests from some Miami officials.For the last two months, Rockstar has been setting up marketing for what will likely be one of the biggest, if not the biggest, releases in entertainment history. It kicked things off with a massive gameplay reveal on Netflix, followed by…

Helldivers 2: Scope of Authority Premium Warbond launches Oct 20

Picture this: A chilly autumn breeze ripples through the forest as a battalion of Automatons amble towards an outpost. They move together like cogs in a larger wheel, chanting in their electric tongues as they march, when a peal of thunder breaks their mechanical trance.But it’s not thunder. It’s you, Helldiver– Liberty’s sharpest shooter taking aim from inside the tree line, busting them…

Epic Games reportedly delays Star Wars and Marvel shooter, as the Fortnite maker embraces "AI-accelerated development"

Epic Games has reportedly turned to gen-AI to finish up development on a shooter that crosses over Star Wars and Marvel, which has been internally delayed…

Arc Raiders player-numbers rebound with the launch of Frozen Trail and the game's 2.0 release, but they might be deceptively high

Arc Raiders has clearly managed to entice back lapsed players with its latest update, Frozen Trail, which upgrades the game to version 2.0. Many players see it as a re-launch of the popular extraction shooter, and the numbers back that up…

Gears of War: E-Day server crashes and login problems are because of DDoS attacks, studio says

Gears of War: E-Day's servers have been struggling because they've been suffering distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, apparently - so someone, or some people, have been deliberately trying to overload them…