EurogamerAlong with today's cover art reveal, Rockstar has also quietly revealed its best visual overview so far of Grand Theft Auto 6's crime-laiden metropolis, Vice City. Read more
GameSpotJohn Buckley, the outspoken communications lead for Palworld developer Pocketpair, has commented on the hot-button issue of AI in gaming. Speaking to GamesRadar, Buckley said, "Gamers don't want it. And if the gamers don't want it, I guess that's it, right? Not much of a conversation to be had." Using AI technologies for game development is "not really for us," Buckley said. He went on to say he understands some companies are employing AI systems to help save time. Buckley said he wouldn't call
Rock Paper ShotgunThick As Thieves developers OtherSide Entertainment have laid off 17 employees following the cancellation of a multiplayer immersive sim dubbed Argos: Riders on the Storm. The studio's helmed by Looking Glass Studios veterans Warren Spector and Paul Neurath - key figures in shaping the likes of Deus Ex and System Shock 2 - said via a spokesperson that they believe Argos "could have been a huge success in normal times". Read more
GameSpotRockstar Games has finally confirmed that GTA 6 preorders begin June 25, and as part of the announcement, the game's website was updated with a new look at Vice City. A new image shows a nighttime scene in Vice City, with boats cruising through the water. Based on the ferris wheel in the background, this looks like GTA 6's take on the port of Miami. That also tracks with the dockyard and shipping containers that can be seen in the image. Multiple planes/helicopters can be seen cruising overhead
EurogamerWarframe's next update - Jade Shadows: Constellations - has finally arrived, bringing with it two new Protoframes: Ryoku and Vena. A relatively recent addition to the sci-fi shooter's playable repertoire, Protoframes - essentially human versions of the game's familiar Warframes - were a bold swing that won hearts and minds a few years back, and they've remained popular ever since. Read more
EurogamerEver watched a Big John video? He's a big guy from London who films himself eating food that'd probably floor me. I watched one video where he ordered three pies and two scoops of mash potato and some swamp-like sauce. Proper hearty food he calls it, then he said "bosh", and apparently he says bosh a lot. Read more
EurogamerRockstar Games has revealed the box art for Grand Theft Auto 6, which looks a lot like you'd expect it to look, and it's revealed pre-order dates for the new game. Read more
EurogamerIn a surprise move, Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar Games is giving players of GTA 5 on PS4 or Xbox One a free upgrade to GTA 5 on PS5 or Xbox Series X/S. Read more
EurogamerBattlefield Studios has rolled out a new hotfix for Battlefield 6 players across PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S. The small patch, version 1.3.2.1, went live Wednesday morning. This is the first client-side patch to arrive in response to the mess of bugs and issues that made their way into the game with the Season 3 mid-season update. Read more
EurogamerLast night, during its State of Unreal presentation, Epic unveiled a number of upcoming Fortnite collaborations with Control Resonant, Sonic Crossworlds Racing, Phantom Blade Zero, and the award-winning Vampire Survivors. However, a mere matter of hours later, Vampire Survivors developer Poncle said it was "reviewing" its Fortnite collaboration due to Epic's use of generative AI. Read more
Rock Paper ShotgunEpic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, overseer of a company which fired over 1000 staff just a few months ago, has laid out his vision for the games industry's future during a "time of both crisis and opportunity". As Epic revealed an Unreal Engine 6 packed with generative AI model support designed to "reduce the tedious work" that goes into making games, Sweeney painted a picture of a future in which the threat of Roblox eating the world is combatted by a bunch of game makers working with Epic to create
EurogamerHollywood superstar Tom Cruise didn't nearly voice Halo's famous protagonist Master Chief, and Hollywood superstar Julia Roberts wasn't nearly in Halo either. There was a conversation at a party once, between a casting agent and Halo voice director and composer Marty O'Donnell, but that's as far as it got. Read more
Rock Paper ShotgunProlific FromSoft game multiplayer modder Yui is "close" to being ready to open up alpha testing of their latest seamless co-op mod, this time for Dark Souls 2. Despite it following the the footsteps of their seamless co-op mods for the likes of Elden Ring, Nightreign, and the original Dark Souls, Yui said this DS2 mod's turned out to be a very different kettle of fish and one of their "most complicated and ambitious projects to date". Read more
EurogamerEpic Games has detailed some of the features in its next generation Unreal Engine - Unreal Engine 6 - and one of the ideas it's testing is the ability for players to move their Fortnite skins into other Unreal Engine games, and for other Unreal Engine games to put their skins into Fortnite. Read more
Rock Paper ShotgunAn employment tribunal in the UK has ruled against striking blacklisting claims levied against Rockstar Games by staff the GTA 6 studio abruptly fired last year from ongoing legal proceedings between the two sides. The staff were let go in autumn last year, with Rockstar subsequently claiming that they were fired due to the leaking of "confidential information" via a public forum. The IWGB Game Workers Union, representing the ousted workers, have accused Rockstar of union busting over the firing
EurogamerLast weekend, Behaviour Interactive delivered a strong showcase for Dead by Daylight teasing major visual overhauls and more. Alongside the arrival of Friday the 13th legend Jason Voorhees, the updates have pushed the asymmetrical online horror game's popularity on Steam past previous levels. Read more
Rock Paper ShotgunTowards the end of goblinAmerica's tutorial level, you mercilessly gun down a huge cherry tree. Like much else in the game's world, the tree is an abomination – beige and rubbery as a stunted hatchling, with hard, tacky fruit hanging from it like dumbbells torturously sewn into the skin. Its death throes are pathetic, and somehow erotic. It sags and sprawls, breasting across the arena boobily with an undefinable cry. I am happy that this creature is slain, and hope never to encounter its like ag
EurogamerAction RPG Black Myth: Wukong broke records on its release in 2024. It attracted the biggest concurrent peak player count of any single-player game in Steam history and established itself as the most-viewed game on Chinese live-streaming platforms on its first day of release. Developer Game Science would go on to announce its Chinese mythology inspired action-RPG had sold over 10m copies just four days after its launch. Read more
EurogamerWith Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced right around the corner and Codename Hexe still brewing (mostly) in secret, Ubisoft is finally saying goodbye to last year's Assassin's Creed Shadows. Its very last content update has now been released, and while its focus is on wrapping up Naoe and Yasuke's storyline, it's a big one, leading directly into next month's pirate remake. Read more
EurogamerEpic Games has revealed a new tool for Unreal Engine 5.8 which allows generative AI large language models (LLMs) to plug into and communicate with the engine directly, using its tools while being directed by text prompts. Read more