Last week, Niantic announced plans to create an AI model for navigating the physical world using scans collected from players of its mobile games, such as Pokémon Go, and from users of its Scaniverse app, reports 404 Media. All AI models require training data. So far, companies have collected data from websites, YouTube videos, books,… Read More »
Take-Two Interactive is laying off around 5 pecent of its workforce, or about 579 workers, and canceling several probjects, the GTA 6 publisher announced in a new filing. The news follows claims from CEO Strauss Zelnick that the publisher had “no plans” for layoffs amid its planned cost reduction program. In the filiing, Take-Two said… Read More »
New screenshots of Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero, the next game in the beloved Budokai Tenkaichi series, confirms more characters coming to the hotly-anticipated 3D fighting game. Among its ranks of super-powered heroes is Dragon Ball Z’s oft-forgotten Saiyan warrior, Future Gohan. NEW SPARKING ZERO CHARACTERS! Beerus, Whis, Gohan, Videl, Future Gohan, and Trunks (Sword) pic.twitter.com/nq0u2ns8un… Read More »
Gamemaker Wizards of the Coast has announced a new adventure module for their tabletop RPG Dungeons & Dragons, and the trailer to promote it includes a voice fans of Baldur’s Gate 3 may recognize: Neil Newbon. Neil Newbon gained a lot of recognition for his role as Astarion in one of last year’s biggest games,… Read More »
It won’t be long before players can get their hands on Hades II, the sequel to 2020’s critically-acclaimed roguelite by Supergiant Games. In a new post on X/Twitter, Supergiant Games announced an upcoming Hades II Technical Test along with instructions on how to join. The goal of the technical test is to ensure that the… Read More »
We’ve already reported on how the PC and console Fallout games have received a shot in the arm following the success of the Fallout TV show. Now it’s the turn of mobile game Fallout Shelter. Fallout Shelter, a free-to-play base-building and people management sim set within the post-apocalyptic Fallout world, has seen its daily revenue… Read More »
The boss of Pocketpair has accused Chinese game companies of making Palworld clones, saying: “These are incredible times.” In a tweet translated by Automaton, Takuro Mizobe, CEO of PocketPair, published a screenshot of a mobile and PC game called Auroria, alongside the following statement: “Tencent is already making a Palworld clone game! In China, many… Read More »
Stellar Blade creative director Hyung-Tae Kim has previously stated that Square Enix’s NieR: Automata helped him rediscover the kind of game he wants to make. Set in a post-apocalyptic world with an anime-esque sword-wielding female protagonist, Stellar Blade’s inspiration sources didn’t go unnoticed when its first trailer was released as Project Eve back in 2021.… Read More »
Gaming saw a rise in team-based hero shooters from 2016 through 2018, with games like Overwatch, Battleborn, and LawBreakers as notable standouts. Lawbreakers is long gone, but an unofficial fan project aims to revive it, making it playable for the first time in six years. LawBreakers, developed by Gears of War lead designer Cliff Bleszinski’s… Read More »
We finally know who will be voicing Shadow in the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and it’s reportedly a big name: Keanu Reeves. The news comes from a THR report today, which says multiple sources have confirmed the casting to the outlet. IGN has reached out to Paramount Pictures and Reeves’ reps for comment. As… Read More »