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'There was some really fair criticism': Arc Raiders' devs understand why players were so upset about its AI use but admit that it was 'too impractical to record' every voice line

Embark has since re-recorded lines to inject more real human voices to the game.

PC Gamer · EN

Xbox COO who left after just 3 months shoots down claims she was 'fired for a policy violation,' says her story is about 'core values'

Helen Chiang, who became the Xbox division's first chief operating officer in July, says she has "serious concerns" about how her case was handled.

PC Gamer · EN

"We're doing great," says id Software boss, despite losing "about half of our studio" amid devastating Xbox cuts

Iconic Doom and Quake developer id Software was among the most heavily impacted Microsoft-owned studios during Xbox CEO Asha Sharma's devastating business "reset" earlier this year, with around 136 employees reportedly losing their jobs. Read more

Eurogamer · EN

Over a decade later, Bloodborne remains so popular it reportedly sold a quarter of a million copies this year alone

Bloodborne, FromSoftware's singular Lovecraftian action-RPG, has reportedly sold more than 251,000 copies this year alone. Read more

Eurogamer · EN

As the controversy around AI-created video game copies continues, Anthropic seemingly restricts Claude's cloning abilities

An update to Anthropic's Claude AI software has seemingly blocked the creation of outright clones or copies of existing games. Instead, Claude has been altered to only create "original" games. Read more

Eurogamer · EN

One World of Warcraft: Forever player is working on a first-person mod that's a love letter to retro RPGs like Hexen and Morrowind

One World of Warcraft: Forever player is attempting to turn Blizzard's new MMO endeavour into a Morrowind-esque first-person fantasy RPG, full of retro animations harkening back to the good ol' days. And there's no generative AI in sight. Read more

Eurogamer · EN

COD Modern Warfare 4 has seemingly answered DMZ players' PvE calls with new Story Mission changes - but there are major caveats

For as long as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's DMZ extraction mode has been available, there've been calls for PvE-only servers . Developer Infinity Ward , for its part, has maintained the mode is designed as a PvPvE experience , but it's now seemingly made a change offering solo players something of a compromise, albeit with caveats. Read more

Eurogamer · EN

Nintendo tried adding fast travel to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake, before devs realised "we were missing out on the moments of discovery"

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is being wrapped up in all kinds of modern touches for its imminent Nintendo Switch 2 remake (that owl seems to be less chatty , for starters), but there's at least one quality-of-life feature borrowed from Breath of the Wild that the developers felt was better left on the cutting room floor: fast travel. Read more

Eurogamer · EN

The Borderlands series has sold over 100 million copies, and Gearbox is "cooking hard on more Borderlands 4 content for next year"

The Borderlands series has sold more than 100m copies across all games, developer Gearbox Software has announced. No surprise, then - the studio also said it's cooking up "big plans" for the evergreen looter shooter's future. Read more

Eurogamer · EN

Yakuza creator's new studio and its debut game Gang of Dragon are no more after losing funding from NetEase

Nagoshi Studio has officially shut down and its first game called Gang of Dragon is seemingly no more, months after publisher NetEase pulled funding from the Yakuza-like project. Read more

Eurogamer · EN

Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Remake Link’s Tunic Looks Like That Because He Made It Himself

He's very proud of it and you should be nice to him

Kotaku · EN

No, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners II Didn’t Canonize A 2077 Ending

The show takes place after CD Projekt Red’s RPG, but its showrunner says it’s not invalidating player decisions

Kotaku · EN

There’s Footage Running Around That Might Be A First Look At A Persona 1 Remake

If it's not authentic, it is convincingly well-made

Kotaku · EN

Undiscovered Star Wars Secret Finally Found, Dev Who Hid It: ‘It’s Been A Long 3 And A Half Years’

If you enter in a familiar code in Jedi: Survivor you'll see something very strange

Kotaku · EN

A 21-Year Veteran Of Xbox Who Is Suddenly No Longer At The Company Says She Has ‘Serious Concerns’ About The Whole Process

Helen Chiang has broken her silence after weeks of speculation

Kotaku · EN

Developers, Creators, And Fans Remember BioWare: ‘I’ve Been Trying To Replicate That Feeling For Almost My Whole Life’

The Mass Effect and Dragon Age studio may be gone, but its legacy and impact remain

Kotaku · EN

South Of Midnight Director Says He Doesn’t Think Xbox Should Have Funded It

'In hindsight at least, it was unsustainable'

Kotaku · EN

A Scam Website Is Trying To Cash In On AO3 Outage By ‘Selling’ Audiobooks Of Fanfics

AO3 is taking steps to address the issue

Kotaku · EN

Gag Order is a co-op, SCP-ish horror shooter about surviving as best you can against some nasty, tentacle covered cephalopod creatures

What makes Carrion interesting obviously lies in playing as the monster in a horror game rather than being the one chased down by it. The game's nasty tentacle monster still gives me the heebie jeebies, so I really would hate to be hunted by one. This is where I point you towards Gag Order, a shooter where you are in fact hunted by a disgusting cephalopod creature all while tracking down a distress signal. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun · EN

As if the injury descriptions weren't already ghastly enough in Dwarf Fortress, the legendary outpost builder is getting a "meat biome"

Legendary outpost builder Dwarf Fortress is getting a meat biome. A terrible netherworld of bone and artery. A sunken redoubt of gristle and gizzard. An appalling labyrinth of squirt and squelch. Honestly, the biggest shock here is that Dwarf Fortress doesn't appear to have a meat biome already. It certainly has plenty of florid descriptions of fatal injuries. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun · EN

Skyblivion modders reveal a former volunteer is "threatening to sue for damages upwards of €30,000" over work on the unofficial Oblivion remake project

The team behind Oblivion remake mod Skyblivion are being threatened with legal action by a former volunteer on the project, according a video posted by current lead Kyle 'Rebelzize' Rebel. The situation looks like it'll need resolving before the mod, which was originally set to release last year , can finally make its way out of the Imperial City sewers. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun · EN

Delve into "a deep underground facility full of secrets and horrors" in the latest Fallout 4 quest mod from the Commonwealth Story Expansion Project

After adding a whole new town to Fallout 4 last month, a group of modders have released another in their long string of extra quests for the RPG. This latest mission revolves around a dungeon delve in the Glowing Sea, where a mysterious bunker's just been unearthed. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun · EN

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

Recently, I managed to dupe that preposterous hack Julian into signing a form committing him to alternate weeks of Maw-feeding duty. How he whined last Monday, as we strapped him into his neoprene bodysuit. How he begged for mercy, as we handed him his 12-foot Gallium toasting fork and elbowed him out the airlock. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun · EN

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

Anthropic have told their genAI tool Claude to start ducking requests from users to recreate or clone existing games, following a flood of folks using the tech to generate six-fingered remakes. Instead of risking infringing on the intellectual property of series or titles that companies which aren't Anthropic own, Claude will instead restrict itself to only generating "original" games slopped together based on whatever data it's drawing on. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun · EN