Since the release of Tomodachi Life, there's been a trend of people recreating their deceased loved ones in-game and sharing the results.
@maddie-b-a.bsky.social speaks to these players, a death doula, and a grief counselor to understand what it means to digitally memorialise the dearly departed.
System updates for Xbox Series consoles and Windows have been developed and deployed in response to a rash of reports regarding a Forza Horizon 6 bug that has been wiping saves since late May.
Ubisoft will lay off 93 workers from its San Francisco office, which shut down its development team in 2024.
The news comes days after it was reported that 380 Ubisoft employees would be let go alongside the closures of Ubisoft Winnipeg and Ubisoft Belgrade.
Nintendo Japan has created a new set of rules for purchasing a multilingual-supported Nintendo Switch 2 in response to scalpers.
Players must now have 50 or more hours of playtime on the Nintendo Switch, and will only be able to buy one console per Nintendo account.
Xbox's new chief strategy officer disagrees that the console business is "dying," despite bigger opportunities with mobile revenue and PC player bases.
"We are still talking about hundreds of millions of players who spend $40 billion plus per year in a category that they love"
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
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A navigational model developed by Niantic Spatial, reportedly using data from Pokémon Go, is now being used by a spatial intelligence company with a US intelligence contract to support "critical national security missions."
A navigational model developed by Niantic Spatial, reportedly using data from Pokémon Go, is now being used by a spatial intelligence company with a US intelligence contract to support "critical national security missions."
Alien: Isolation's director says the team will have a “greater awareness of balancing” when it comes to the difficulty and length of the sequel.
He believes criticisms of the original game's duration were a result of its systemic elements. "How you play really determines the length."
Xbox has published a previously-reported internal memo, which sees CEO Asha Sharma detailing the company’s failings and outlining an ‘Xbox Reset.’
Bloomberg sources say that "major job cuts" will come as part of that plan, to be undertaken in the next fiscal year, beginning next month.
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“The ‘early ideation stages’, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a game’s vision,” said one artist.
A surge in scalper activity could be due to the value of the Japanese yen against other global currencies, and the impending Switch 2 price hike.thisweekinvideogames.com
"I want people to be talking about Alien: Isolation 2 10 years from now, just as people are talking about Alien: Isolation now," said director Alistair Hope
