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Something for the Weekend – 22/08/26
Let’s be honest, the only thing anyone’s been talking about is the GTA 6 leaks this week, which is putting an even bigger spotlight onto the GTA 6 gameplay reveal on Thursday night. That’s cast a shadow over Gamescom this coming week, which will have a big blow-out of news and tr…
Inflexion deep-dives Conan Exiles’ Legacy of the Giant Kings, teases something for Nightingale after Gamescom
When last we checked in on Nightingale and Conan Exiles Enhanced studio Inflexion Games, Aaryn Flynn and Neil Thompson vowed to travel to every historical mural in Edmonton whose artist, Kris Friesen, had painted in a tiny Conan the Barbarian and gotten away with it. In this week…
Ewan McGregor wants to return as Obi-Wan so much that he cornered Star Wars boss Dave Filoni on the set of Ahsoka: "There's got to be something"
He also suggested a time travelling romance
Robert Downey. Jr. prefers playing Doctor Doom over Iron Man because he gets to "really observe" from the villain's perspective: "I guess they're all mad at me or something"
Avengers: Doomsday hits theaters in December
OpenAI says it'd be a shame if something were to happen to your servers like what happened to Hugging Face, better use our AI models to protect yourself
Call 1-800-ChatGPT in case of cyber emergency?
Something for the Weekend – 15/08/26
It’s something like the 17th heatwave with barely any breaks between, which makes it feel quite daft that all our phones went nuts to warn people not to set stuff on fire just last night. Aside from that being common sense, shouldn’t that message have come weeks ago? But that was…
Something Is Lurking Beneath The Water In Jurassic World Evolution 3: Crocodilia Coast
There are plenty of ways to make a Jurassic World park dangerous, but Jurassic World Evolution 3: Crocodilia Coast has found a particularly nasty one.
These devs have been building the perfect platformer for 22 years, and the Steam apocalypse won't stop them now: "Video games have always been about a small team of sickos doing something"
For this week's Saturday Read, the devs behind Metanet Software tell us about the decades-long road that's led to N Plus Infinity Times Two
Something for the Weekend – 08/08/26
There was a very, very brief patch of rain this week, and the weekend’s starting off quite a bit cooler for the weekend, but it’ll be back to the hotter stuff before you know it. Maybe going for a walk will be better in video game form? In the News This Week The THQ Nordic showca…
Madrid's Santiago Bernabéu stadium will host World Cup 2030 final, Morocco will get something in return
In the aftermath of the migrant crisis in Ceuta , that eroded relationships between Spain and Morocco, a report from The Times on Wednesday suggested that FIFA had "bribed" Morocco with the rights to host the World Cup 2030 final in exchange for political backing for Gianni Infan…
Fight Club creator: "Disney has no idea what to do with something as dark"
At the recent Celsius 232 in Asturias we got to talk with up to 22 (!) international fiction authors across genres such as horror ( Grady Hendrix ), sci-fi ( Ted Chiang ), and epic fantasy ( John Gwynne ). Another clear highlight was Chuck Palahniuk, known for tackling uncomforta…
Something for the weekend: Corsair Cove is the game to play on your days off
Redtail Relic Rush Swings Onto Xbox – And Afil Games Is Trying Something A Little Different
Redtail Relic Rush arrives as a single Xbox Play Anywhere package, meaning one purchase lets you play across console and PC with shared progress.
Something to Drink? Review (PC) – Coasters, Please
Something to Drink? asks and answers the question: what if Papers, Please but bartending? It’s clear that solo dev Adam’s Games has been inspired by Papers, Please and sought to capture some of that same magic by replacing passport control with helping folks get hammered. It’s a…
Shigeru Miyamoto: Stop chasing trends and start creating games that actually mean something
Even though he's no longer particularly involved in the actual development, there's absolutely no doubt that Shigeru Miyamoto (the creator of Mario and Zelda, among others) knows how to design entertaining games. In an interview in the latest issue of Famitsu (via VGC ), he share…
Nintendo didn't make Splatoon 4 because it didn't want to, Splatoon Raiders lead says: "We thought it might be interesting to create something with a slightly different approach"
"That said, we will continue to develop competitive gameplay going forward"
Something for the Weekend – 18/07/26
Well it’s safe to say that the middle of this week took some of the wind out of the sails for this weekend, but while the sports are now less exciting, I can say that next week is certainly rather more interesting for game releases. But before we can get to that, we have to round…
RPG players are conditioned to think they're 'built different', says Josh Sawyer, so some of them hate it when games like Pillars of Eternity tell them they can't do something
To be fair, I also think I'm built different. I'm built much, much worse.