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007 First Light To Get Post-Launch TacSim Content And New Roadmap

007 First Light is more narrative heavy than IO Interactive's recent offerings, marrying the immersive sim sandbox of Hitman with the more linear action set-pieces of Uncharted, but the team still has plans for post-launch content to keep the experience going. Even if it's a little less story-driven.

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Take-Twoโ€™s Boss Seemingly Takes A Subtle Shot At 2025โ€™s Worst-Reviewed Game

Strauss Zelnick says former Rockstar employees have tried and failed to make another massive hit like GTA

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Someone is trying to use lost property 'finder' laws to gain legal ownership of 39,069 Bitcoin wallets, with just one of them being worth nearly $6,000,000,000

Sometimes someone does something that makes you think, 'Why the hell had no one tried this before?' That's the question that crossed my mind when I learned about 'Noah Doe', a (presumably) placeholder name for a man who is trying to get the New York courts to officially recognise him (and the other plantiff companies)...

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That sword Geralt unsheaths in The Witcher 3 Songs of the Past expansion artwork? We've seen it before

A third Witcher 3 expansion, Songs of the Past, was only announced yesterday, but it appears we've seen the sword Geralt unsheaths in the artwork before. Read more

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Paralives received 'over 100,000 bug reports' in less than a week, as its creator reminds us that life sims are really hard to make

There's a reason that we're in 2026 and still see so few life sims on the market: they're incredibly freakin' hard to make. That's not just me spouting my opinion, it's something that the developers behind games like The Sims, Inzoi, and prematurely cancelled Life by You have said in the past. There are so many moving...

3 weeks ago ๐Ÿ‘ 10
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A Google engineer who allegedly made over $1,000,000 after predicting 2025's most-searched person has now been arrested for insider trading

As much as I enjoy a gacha pull as a little treat, I'm not overly jazzed about how inescapable gambling mechanics have become in gamesโ€”or anywhere else, for that matter. So-called prediction markets are also becoming increasingly popular, and one Google engineer has been arrested for allegedly leveraging insider inform...

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Epic devs discuss the shock of mass layoffs: 'We only had a slight hint that the company revenue wasn't doing well'

The 1,000 developers that Epic Games laid off in March were, in the words of CEO Tim Sweeney, of "once-in-a-lifetime" qualityโ€”and a website that compiles their resumes proves it.The ex-Epic Awesome People List comprises 545 entries and shows just how wide and deep the layoffs cut. It hit young developers learning their...

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Yoshi And The Mysterious Book: The Kotaku Review

Even with cute creatures, some extremely creative ideas, and loads to do, thereโ€™s something missing at the heart of Yoshiโ€™s latest adventure

3 weeks ago ๐Ÿ‘ 8
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Planet Zoo 2 finally revealed after much teasing, with an autumn release date, aquatic and flying species, and the ability to conserve outside of your zoo

Earlier this week, the park sim veterans at Frontier Developments began teasing Planet Zoo 2. Now, the sequel has been fully revealed, and it's coming later this year with a handful of huge additions. Read more

3 weeks ago ๐Ÿ‘ 8
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Subnautica 2 Devs Will Probably Get That $250 Million Payout Kraftonโ€™s CEO Tried To Avoid By Asking ChatGPT For Help

The survival game has been selling millions of copies in its first month

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'There are two 'P's in the word Google' says the company's upgraded AI Overview, as an old LLM issue rears its ugly head

As we march ever further into our bright AI future, it's somehow reassuring to know the tech can still stumble at the first hurdle. Or concerning, one of the two. Google Search users will have noticed that the AI Overview feature has been upgraded recently as part of the company's efforts to crowbar more AI into, well,...

3 weeks ago ๐Ÿ‘ 11
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Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton now forced to pay $250m earnout to Unknown Worlds developers after more than 4m units sold

Subnautica 2 has been off to a stellar start despite some discussions over fighting alien fish, with 2m copies sold within 12 hours of launching on Steam and Xbox's storefronts. Since its 14th May launch, its success has only become bigger, and now Krafton will be forced to pay developer Unknown Worlds $250m. Read more

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