Tag: gaming industry

Friendship ended with human race: Boffins declare the ‘meme Turing test’ has been passed, and AI is now making funnier captions on average than you useless lumps

Friendship ended with human…

A new study has made the curious finding that memes with AI-generated captions are, generally speaking, found to score…
Game dev union marches through industry event to demonstrate that it’s about ‘taking action and organizing change’

Game dev union marches…

Union organizers and game developers marched through the 2025 Game Developers Conference on Wednesday, gathering at a nearby park…
Helldivers 2’s Johan Pilestedt says developers need to start taking more risks: ‘Safe bets are a death sentence for the studios that try to make them’

Helldivers 2’s Johan Pilestedt…

Helldivers 2 creative director Johan Pilestedt says the game industry has a “convergence problem” because everyone is chasing the…
PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now

PC gamers spend 92%…

Ben Porter, director at the consultancy firm NewZoo, is giving a GDC talk this week that picks out some…
Former Treyarch studio co-head and Black Ops 3 director is heading up a new first-party PlayStation studio

Former Treyarch studio co-head…

Five years after leaving Treyarch, former studio co-chief and Call of Duty producer Jason Blundell is heading up a…
‘I feel worried about this art form:’ Unsurprisingly, the real Aloy from Horizon isn’t a fan of AI Aloy

‘I feel worried about…

Voice actor Ashly Burch, known for her role as Aloy in Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West, shared…
2011 was an amazing comeback year for PC gaming

2011 was an amazing…

When having a computer at home became commonplace in the 1990s, an entire generation of kids immediately smuggled games…
Ubisoft is reportedly talking to Tencent about creating a new business entity to manage Assassin’s Creed and other big games

Ubisoft is reportedly talking…

A Bloomberg report says struggling publisher Ubisoft is looking for investors for a new business venture that will take…
Possibility Space owners sue NetEase for $900 million over allegations it spread ‘false and defamatory rumors’ of fraud at the studio that ultimately forced it to close

Possibility Space owners sue…

The strange tale of the sudden 2024 closure of Possibility Space has taken another turn, as studio owners Jeff…
2024 was Steam’s ‘best year ever’ of users buying newly released games—but I wouldn’t celebrate the end of the forever game era just yet

2024 was Steam’s ‘best…

Yesterday, Valve published its yearly “Steam Year In Review” blog post, a retrospective highlighting Steam feature additions and customer…