Tag: gaming industry

Todd Howard says AI can’t replace human ‘creative intention,’ but it’s part of Bethesda’s ‘toolset for how we build our worlds or check things’

Todd Howard says AI…

During a recent event for the second season of the Fallout TV show that premiers later this month, Bethesda’s…
Facepunch director Alistair McFarlane, who once offered to buy New World from Amazon and faked us out about Rust 2, has left the company

Facepunch director Alistair McFarlane,…

Alistair McFarlane, chief operating officer and director of Facepunch Studios, has left the company. McFarlane said in a message…
Nexus Mods finally tightens the screws on AI, though it’s still playing softball with the tide of slop

Nexus Mods finally tightens…

One particular draining effect that the swell of AI tools has had is in the modding community. Now, some…
‘Devs are getting ground up as collateral damage’: Fallout: New Vegas lead says burnout has replaced crunch as ‘the primary hazard of the game industry’

‘Devs are getting ground…

Crunch (imposing long periods of major overtime to meet a deadline) has been a major spectre in the games'…
What to expect from The Game Awards 2025: What’s rumored to be there, what’s already confirmed, and what we think is taking home GOTY

What to expect from…

It’s Geoff Keighley’s big day, and we stand to benefit with the awareness of cool games on the horizon.…
Netflix agrees to buy Warner Bros

Netflix agrees to buy…

Less than two months after it went on the auction block, massive media company Warner Bros. Discovery has found…
Google is desperate for us to forget the simple joy of the original internet: Links

Google is desperate for…

Until I found the website ooh.directory last year, I hadn’t really understood, completely, how malnourished my internet diet had…
Godot natively supports coding in Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform, if you needed another reason to switch game engines

Godot natively supports coding…

In a time when the dominant game engines are contorting themselves to accommodate generative AI toolsets and the resurrected…
Fallout co-creator Tim Cain is out of ‘semi-retirement’ and back at Obsidian

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain…

If you’ve got good taste (read: the exact same taste as me), Tim Cain bears a lot of responsibility…
Saudi Arabia’s $55 billion takeover of Electronic Arts will happen next week

Saudi Arabia’s $55 billion…

Bad news for anyone holding out hope that some power-on-high would swoop in and put a halt to Saudi…