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AI-Generated Assets Were "Unintentionally Included" In Crimson Desert, Devs Say
Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss recently addressed the game's underwhelming visuals on PlayStation 5 with an easy fix. Unfortunately, the graphics issues players are running into now aren't so easily fixed, as they're the result of generative AI, something Pearl Abyss confirmed in a recent apol
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Peter Molyneux's Masters of Albion looks to have everything I love about those Bullfrog and Lionhead classics, but the scepticism is hard to shake
Few developers can - even after all this time - get you quite so swept up in their enthusiasm as Peter Molyneux. It's an enthusiasm that has, famously, got him into trouble in the past, when passion and promise have failed to meet reality by quite some margin - with players often caught in the fall
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Microsoft announces Xbox Partner Preview for this week, with Ryu Ga Gotoku's Stranger Than Heaven finally making a showing
Microsoft has announced its next Xbox Partner Preview showcase will take place later this week, and focus on third-party games from the likes of Sega and GSC Game World. Read more
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"New Players Won't Feel Alone" - Square Enix Partners With Google For AI-Powered Dragon Quest Companion
The Slime has come.Over the weekend, Square Enix announced a collaboration with Google which will see a generative AI-powered "companion" added to Dragon Quest X.As highlighted in an article by news outlet Sankei Shimbun (thanks, NintendoEverything), Google's Gemini will be integrated into the Japan
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PS5 Players Will Definitely Want to Tune into Xbox's Partner Preview Later This Week
Stranger Than Heaven and more confirmed.Xbox has announced a Partner Preview showcase, and PS5 users will want to give it a watch.This is Xbox's third-party presentation, meaning the games featured will all be from external publishers. That means most if not all the games shown will be heading to PS
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Dying Light: The Beast Announces Restored Land Edition That Adds Lots of Free Content
Dying Light: The Beast developer Techland has announced a new edition of its first-person zombie-slaying game. It's called Dying Light: The Beast Restored Land, and it includes the full game, all post-release content, and new Restored Land content. It launches on March 26 and is free for existing pl
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2019's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Is Blowing Up on Steam Thanks to a Big Sale and Positive Word of Mouth
A generous price drop has seen Call of Duty: Modern Warfare break its own Steam concurrent record over the weekend, hitting an all-new high of 61,667 peak players and making it more popular than last year's Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 on Valve's PC platform.
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Crimson Desert Update Makes Control Improvements, Eases The Difficulty
The latest update for Crimson Desert, Version 1.00.03, is now rolling out, bringing a huge range of gameplay improvements, bug fixes, and quality-of-life changes shaped by player feedback. The patch is currently available on Steam, with other platforms to follow. PlayStation 5 users are expected to
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The Last Of Us Season 3 Has A Curious Casting Decision For A Key Role
A report revealed who will portray Abby's main companions in Season 3 of HBO's The Last of Us adaptation, but the casting of one of these characters is raising questions and debates.Per Deadline, Michelle Mao will play Yara, and Kyriana Kratter is set to portray her younger brother, Lev. As in the g
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New Details On Unreleased Breaking Bad VR Game Emerge
New information has come to light about projects from Sony's Firesprite studio that never materialized, including a Breaking Bad video game.MP1st reported that Firesprite was working on a Breaking Bad VR game for PlayStation VR in 2017 and 2018. The game was said to be more akin to an "experience,"
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Resident Evil Requiem Developer Capcom Insists It Won't Use AI-Generated Assets in Its Games, but Will Harness Tech to Make Game Development Processes More Efficient
Capcom has clarified its current stance on generative AI in its videogames. The major Japanese publisher and developer behind popular series like Resident Evil, Street Fighter, and Monster Hunter has revealed that while it doesn't use gen-AI assets in their games, it is exploring ways to use generat
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Bungie Is Listening As Marathon Players Push For Solo Play And Better Scheduling In Cryo Archive
Two weeks after launch, Marathon's pinnacle activity Cryo Archive went live on March 20. The new endgame activity has been well-received so far, but with its strict entry requirements, many players aren't quite ready for the intricate mode just yet. Naturally, this has led to some player feedback, a
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Xbox Partner Preview Showcase Set for This Week, Microsoft Promises 'New Reveals'
Microsoft has announced an Xbox Partner Preview showcase for this week. It’ll provide updates for a number of games, and bring with it “new reveals.” Here's what to expect.
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Xbox Showcase Announced For This Week With "Brand-New Reveals," Game Pass News
The next Xbox Partner Preview event is coming this week, Microsoft has announced. The event will take place on Thursday, March 26, promising news about titles from Sega, GSC Game World, and Owlcat Games, as well as "brand-new reveals."There will also be "world premieres and Xbox Game Pass announceme
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'If I Wanna Be the Most OP Mfer Ever Why Try to Hinder Me?' — It Turns Out That Flying a Dragon in Crimson Desert Is on a 15 Minute Timer and There's a 50 Minute Cooldown You Can't Speed Up
As Crimson Desert players make their way further into the game, they’re coming to understand some of its more puzzling design choices. Chief among them is that creature mounts other than your horse are not permanent. And while the coveted endgame dragon is a permanent addition, its use has a 15 minu
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After a very fun, but very frustrating, first weekend, Bungie is considering tweaking Marathon's Cryo Archive
Marathon has concluded its first weekend of Cryo Archive, thrusting its player base (and all their good gear) into a challenging new map to explore and conquer. With new activities comes new feedback, and Marathon's game director has acknowledged a few key requests that are up for discussion intern
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Capcom's Stance on Generative AI Is Interesting Following Resident Evil Requiem's DLSS 5 Makeover
Will the publisher use the tech?Generative AI's role in video game development is a thorny issue right now, and we expect it'll stay that way for a good while yet.Whether you like it or not, we presume developers and publishers at all scales are at least experimenting with the technology to see if i
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Masters of Albion Preview: Peter Molyneux Seems Like He’s Having Fun Making a God Game Again
It seems clear that the Masters of Albion team is making a game that sounds fun to them. A game they'd want to play in their own unique styles. That's usually a good sign in game development. There used to be a lot more games coming out that looked like this one: A budget, but not a huge budget. A v
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Feature: Where The Heck Do You Start If You've Never Played Resident Evil?
Enter the world of survival horror.22nd March 2026 marked the 30th anniversary of the Japanese launch of Resident Evil — or Biohazard — on PlayStation. To celebrate, we'll be publishing various articles this week focused on Capcom's quintessential survival horror series.30 years is a pretty long tim
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Capcom Reveals How It Will Use GenAI Art In Its Games: It Won't
Capcom management has explained how the company will utilize generative AI content in its games going forward, and the answer is that it will not do so.During a shareholder meeting transcribed by Automaton, Capcom said, "Our company will not be implementing any AI-generated assets into our video gam