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As the controversy around AI-created video game copies continues, Anthropic seemingly restricts Claude's cloning abilities
An update to Anthropic's Claude AI software has seemingly blocked the creation of outright clones or copies of existing games. Instead, Claude has been altered to only create "original" games.
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Over a decade later, Bloodborne remains so popular it reportedly sold a quarter of a million copies this year alone
Bloodborne, FromSoftware's singular Lovecraftian action-RPG, has reportedly sold more than 251,000 copies this year alone.
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"We're doing great," says id Software boss, despite losing "about half of our studio" amid devastating Xbox cuts
Iconic Doom and Quake developer id Software was among the most heavily impacted Microsoft-owned studios during Xbox CEO Asha Sharma's devastating business "reset" earlier this year, with around 136 employees reportedly losing their jobs.
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Soulframe to launch into free open beta this week, as Warframe devs go head-to-head with WoW: Forever
Soulframe's Preludes (its own version of a beta) is finally opening its doors to the whole world ahead of the Verse of the Veilands update. Starting this week, anyone who wants to can simply download the game and hop in, no invite required.
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Phantom Blade Zero is Steam's biggest launch of the year so far, selling over 4 million copies in three days
Phantom Blade Zero studio S-Game has announced that its debut title has sold more than 4m copies in its first 72 hours on sale. The game's official X account broke the news alongside a celebratory message, though without providing a per-platform breakdown of copies sold.
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At Dead of Night sequel The Great Hugo is coming "(very) soon"
Baggy Cat Games, the team behind viral FMV horror game At Dead Of Night, has confirmed that a sequel is "coming (very) soon".
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Modern Warfare 4 on Switch 2 has much worse input lag than PS5
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 on Switch 2 has noticeably worse input lag than on PS5, which could put Nintendo players at a disadvantage in multiplayer.
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Footage of a Persona 1 remake has seemingly leaked online
Almost two minutes of footage from what appears to be a remake of the original Persona has leaked online.
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Dune: Awakening's free Blood and Ice expansion swaps sand for snow on 1st December
Funcom's survival MMO Dune: Awakening is heading north with a free expansion that trades the deserts of Arrakis for a frozen new map.
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Pikmin 4 Nintendo Switch 2 Edition launches 12th November and a demo is out tomorrow
Pikmin 4 Nintendo Switch 2 Edition will launch on 12th November, bundled with a new mode called Dandori Academy.
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PUBG live-action series in the works at Netflix, with Donald Glover set to direct and star
PUBG is being turned into a live-action series for Netflix, with Donald Glover set to direct, write, executive produce, and star.
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Activision to remove Itaewon crowd crush footage from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 and apologises to victims' families
Activision has apologised to the bereaved families of the Itaewon crowd crush victims and confirmed it will remove real footage of the tragedy from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4.
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The Mortuary Assistant dev on laying his cancelled Paranormal Activity game to rest, resurrecting it as a Halloween freebie, and a potential return to his biggest game
Halloween feels like an especially appropriate time for Playable Archive's arrival. It's a genuinely spooky found-footage affair for one - a cleverly orchestrated 30-or-so minutes of scares from the developer of horror hit The Mortuary Assistant, released this week as a Halloween freebie . But more than that, the unusual tale of its creation is also one of…
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Final Fantasy 14 reveals Evercold’s second new job and February release date, with pre-orders opening next week
Final Fantasy 14 's next expansion, Evercold, will launch on 23rd February 2027, and its second new job is zephyr, a physical ranged DPS that fights with a crossbow and a bird.
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Silent Hill: Townfall adds new Hard difficulty in latest update
Silent Hill: Townfall has added a new Hard difficulty mode and rebalanced every existing setting to make room for it.
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A former volunteer is threatening legal action against fan-made game project Skyblivion
A former volunteer is threatening legal action against Skyblivion, the long-running fan remake of Oblivion built in Skyrim's engine, over code they contributed to the project.
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Silver Pines is a great survival horror throwback with an unexpected Metroidvania twist, but it makes me glad the genre's moved on
It's those bloody typewriters all over again. Developer Wych Elm Games' Silver Pines is fantastic in a whole bunch of ways, from its woozy small-town ambience to its mix of taut survival horror and exploratory Metroidvania. But from the very first moment I saw its save system, its please-insert-coin phone box demands, I knew our relationship was going to be…
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What we've been playing - "I've been intrigued by horrible images of live-action sequences for weeks"
Happy Halloween! Are you scared? I am: I'm in a theatre play that opens next week and we're not ready yet. I'm also off to a ghost stories evening at the theatre tonight; I've had a few people there tell me, with faces as straight as a ruler, of their eerie encounters. Actually, one encounter involved me.
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GOTY hopeful Mina the Hollower bought the studio financial stability "for now," while the Shovel Knight devs work on a new 3D game
Yacht Club Games has confirmed that most of its developers are now working on a brand new 3D game (potentially Shovel Knight 3D), after the critically-acclaimed Mina the Hollower did well enough for the team to continue.
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Blizzard hints at console ports for World of Warcraft: Forever - "Play it wherever you want and, at some point, on whatever you want"
After more than two decades dominating the PC MMO battlefield, it sounds like Blizzard Entertainment 's taking the idea of a World of Warcraft console port more seriously than ever.
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Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls 3's online servers are temporarily going dark, FromSoftware announces
Things might get even darker over in the world of Lordran without those silly, only sometimes helpful notes left by other players. Developer FromSoftware has announced that it's temporarily closing Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls 3 servers because of an unspecified issue.
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8-bit horror Tenebris Somnia mixes weird live-action horror with a retro 2D adventure to impressive and unsettling effect
I've been captivated by the idea of wrong-footing an audience ever since playing Faith: The Unholy Trinity . That game presents like an 8-bit horror, then proceeds to bend the rules of what an 8-bit game can do - or perhaps what you remember they could do - in order to surprise and scare you. Tenebris Somnia is very similar. Indeed, it's executive produced…
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Crimson Desert Enhanced Edition gets a surprise demo on PlayStation and Xbox, lets you play for 5 hours and carry over your save data
Crimson Desert is one of 2026's most successful releases. The game managed to sell over 6 million copies in just three months , and ended up being so profitable that its publisher ended up giving each employee at development studio Pearl Abyss a $3,400 bonus . Since launch, the dev has been committed to improving the game and correcting some of the more…
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EA reportedly closed BioWare because it was forced to choose between Mass Effect 5 and Star Wars Battlefront 3
A new report has revealed that EA closed BioWare because it was forced to choose between investing in one of two sci-fi projects: a new Mass Effect game or a new Star Wars Battlefront game. And it chose the latter.
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Forza director, who'd been with Turn 10 for 27 years leaves Microsoft, following studios merger with Playground Games
Dan Greenawalt, director, founder, and vice president at Turn 10 Games, has departed from the studio after spending 27 years as part of the company. This comes as Turn 10 is merged with Playground Games as part of Xbox's mass restructuring initiative that made headlines as it resulted in 3200 layoffs and four studio closures earlier this year.
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Sony has snapped up the film rights for Mouthwashing
Sony has snatched up the movie rights for Mouthwashing, the hit independent horror video game released in 2024.
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Games industry honours beloved actor Sir Patrick Stewart, as the legendary Star Trek and X-Men actor passes away
As I'm sure you're all now already aware, legendary British actor Sir Patrick Stewart has died, aged 86. His Instagram account announced the news yesterday, saying he died at home in Los Angeles surrounded by friends and family, following "a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia".
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There are currently "no other Assassin's Creed remakes actively in development", says Ubisoft
Yesterday, Ubisoft issued a statement about the future of the Assassin's Creed series, and the publisher's comments included quite a big surprise: there are currently no new remakes of the series' past games in the works.
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Bethesda reportedly revealing The Elder Scrolls 6 next month, and we may know what its subtitle is going to be
Bethesda's hugely anticipated and long-awaited fantasy role-playing game The Elder Scrolls 6 could be revealed "as soon as next month", a new report has claimed - right in the midst of Microsoft's ongoing restructuring efforts.
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Celeste and TowerFall dev explains why both games were suddenly delisted from Xbox
Celeste and TowerFall have both been delisted from Xbox suddenly earlier this week. Per a post on Bluesky, developer Maddy Thorson says this was an intentional move, with the games being removed from sale on Xbox in support of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement, which is aimed at protesting various companies linked to, or supporting, Israel's…
