Unreal Engine 5.8 launches with improved terrain and vegetation tools, a Lumen Lite option for faster global illumination, and for the times we now live in, an open standard plugin for LLM systems Gaming
‘It feels to many like a tidal wave is sweeping over the AAA game business,’ says Epic CEO Tim Sweeney in his diagnosis of the industry’s woes Gaming
Rockstar faces legal setback as UK tribunal allows its fired workers to bring every one of their union busting allegations to trial Gaming
Capcom has heard feedback that Onimusha is too easy, says it’s ‘confident fans will be satisfied with difficulty’ in the final game Gaming
Guild Wars 3 hopes to solve the problem that made me quit Guild Wars 2 after thousands of hours with the series Gaming
‘[It] is going to change a lot about how games are made’: Epic merges Unreal Engine 5 with Unreal Engine for Fortnite to give game devs around the world Unreal Engine 6 Gaming
Hours after announcing a collab with Fortnite, Vampire Survivors dev suggests it may back out over Epic’s touting of generative AI Gaming
PlayerUnknown’s survival game becomes free-to-own and offers Steam refunds ‘without restrictions on playtime or how long ago you bought the game’ Gaming
Do you recognize these survival crafting games? Prove you’re a real master of roughin’ it with our latest quiz on base-building sandboxes Gaming
Xbox’s latest tactics display ‘a basic misunderstanding of how the interactive entertainment world moves’, says former PlayStation exec Gaming
‘Price increases are unavoidable’ says Tim Cook, proving even Apple isn’t impervious to the global memory shortage Gaming
Valve upgrades AMD’s 9070 XT GPU in the Steam Hardware Survey, finally allowing the credit it deserves Gaming
Snap unveils AR glasses which CEO describes as ‘highly wearable’ in clip that visibly shows the chunky frames crushing his ears Gaming
D&D-inspired Critical Role’s homegrown videogame is coming along well, says Laura Bailey: ‘There’s a lot of work being done’ Gaming
We now have teardown pics of the Steam Frame controller and it looks like it could be pretty repairable Gaming
Gabe Newell buys $70.8 million mansion in Florida, and naturally it has a dock for his superyachts and a personal tunnel to the ocean Gaming
GTA 6 pre-orders open next week, and to celebrate Rockstar has revealed its official cover art Gaming
SanDisk’s latest Optimus gaming SSDs start at $799 MSRP for the 2 TB model and you don’t even get Gen 5 speeds for that Gaming
‘Many people want to use VPNs for privacy—that is important—but we know that some children use them to get around restrictions’: UK government considering VPN ban Gaming
My quick test of Lumen Lite shows that it’s probably good news for ray-traced gaming on handheld PCs, but I suspect that it will be used everywhere because of the pressure developers are now under Gaming
Snapdragon Reality Elite chip aims for ‘up to 60% higher GPU performance, up to 30% increase in CPU performance’ in VR gaming Gaming
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