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Saber Interactive's creative director explained how AI works in Rideshare Simulator and stated that "id Software would definitely have used this technology if it had existed in the '90s"

Tim Willits, creative director at Saber Interactive and co-owner of id Software from 1995 to 2019, tried to clear the air around generative AI in the studio's upcoming game. Speaking with press at Gamescom 2026,...
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Kingdom Come creator claims all developers use AI – sparks massive DLSS 5 debate

Daniel Vavra, former creative director at Warhorse Studios, unleashed a series of statements on social media about AI use across the game industry. He argues the situation has gotten absurd – a small but loud...
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Impressions after 30 minutes in the early alpha of State of Decay 3

The change of ownership at Undead Labs amid the Xbox reset left plenty of questions about the fate of the zombie survival game the studio has been working on for years. Gamescom 2026 featured a...
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26 screenshots of GTA 6 and GTA Vice City show how the city has changed over 24 years

Rockstar has finally shown off full gameplay from Grand Theft Auto 6, dropping a roughly 26-minute-long video. It is the most detailed look at the game so far, and it also gives fans a reason...
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Owner of a handheld console connected an RTX 5080 to it and asked if it's time to build a proper PC

A hybrid rig combining a premium handheld and a desktop graphics card worth roughly three and a half thousand dollars has racked up hundreds of comments and split opinions right down the middle. The owner...
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Fans found Dexter Morgan's house in GTA 6

Fans have been picking apart the 26-minute GTA 6 gameplay video frame by frame, and one discovery ties directly into a cult classic show. Players believe Rockstar recreated the apartment complex where Dexter Morgan lived...
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Gamer showed a typical morning in Skyrim after a couple of mods – with Soviet T-34-85 tanks and bomber dragons

Modding Skyrim stopped being about "tweak some textures and add a couple of swords" a long time ago. Fourteen years after release, the community keeps stress-testing Bethesda engine, and every time it turns out there's...
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Meteorologists recreated "satellite images" of the Normandy landing and found that the weather almost changed the course of the entire operation

Scientists from the University of Reading and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) have recreated satellite images that never physically existed back in 1944. Using modern weather data reanalysis techniques, researchers showed just...
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GTA 6 won't allow us to buy a house in story mode

Buying property in the GTA 6 single-player campaign won't be an option, and Rockstar Games has story reasons for that. Jason and Lucia are on the run, so putting down roots with a house purchase...
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DLSS 5 leak turns game characters into photorealistic mutants and has already split the community into two camps

An unofficial version of Nvidia upscaling tech that users have dubbed "DLSS 5" has escaped into the wild. The tool ended up in the hands of enthusiasts ahead of any official announcement, and people are...
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X discovered a botfarm of 200,000 accounts from China, some of which fueled fears around AI data centers

X says it has identified a bot farm of roughly 200,000 accounts created by Chinese operators. Of those, 200 accounts stood out for posting content specifically against AI data center construction. According to X's Global...
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Activision showed a video and screenshots of lawyers serving lawsuits to creators of Call of Duty cheats

Activision has significantly ramped up its years-long campaign against cheaters, publishing actual footage of a cheat maker being served a legal notice. The publisher is making it clear that the fight against unfair play has...
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Fallout 4 fan raised an odd question – how many years of cleaning would it take Codsworth to turn the Wasteland from a dump into a decent place to live

The Mr. Handy robot butler series was built for suburban household chores – mowing the lawn, wiping down countertops, cooking dinner. Sending one of these things to clean up a ransacked amusement park where three...
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Hearts of Iron 4 fan got so immersed in the strategy game that he started seeing Hungary in his cat after the First Vienna Award

Long strategy games do something strange to the brain: it stops seeing the world map as just a map. First you memorize the shapes of countries, then the resource provinces, and at some point your...
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The artist showed a 23-year-old photo with the fairy that Nvidia once used to promote video cards

Ahead of Nvidia latest earnings report, longtime PC scene veteran and digital artist Bryan Brinkman posted a photo of himself from E3 2003, showing him at eighteen years old standing next to a model dressed...
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Crimson Desert patches will be released less frequently because the studio has redirected all its efforts to creating expansions

One of the odder surprises from Gamescom Opening Night Live was the reveal of Crimson Desert Enhanced – a kind of rebrand for the RPG from South Korean studio Pearl Abyss. It's not a full...
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Beholder, magic, and beautiful women in the Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons trailer

At Gamescom Opening Night, Invoke Studios showed off the first gameplay footage for Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons. The footage let us see Kaatri exploring the world and showing off how the magic that you learn...
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Portable Xbox in a Pelican Case Failed to Start at an Altitude of 10 Kilometers

Home consoles have long since learned to travel: people stuff them into Pelican cases, wire in a monitor and power jacks, and turn the whole thing into a portable gaming station. The logical next step...
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Zack Snyder can't find a distributor for The Last Photograph due to excessive violence

Zack Snyder's already-completed film The Last Photograph has unexpectedly ended up without a distributor. According to an insider, the director hasn't been able to find a company willing to release the movie, and potential buyers...
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How one phrase breaks AI scammers and makes bots loop forever

Phone calls from AI voice bots posing as postal workers, bank employees, or delivery services have stopped being anything unusual. The technology has become cheap and widespread, and telling a synthesized voice apart from a...