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Dead Space series co-creator and industry veteran Glen Schofield announces his retirement in emotional video

"Explore, experiment, enjoy, and don't forget that the most important thing is the idea." “After 35 years of making games and directing them, running teams, it’s time for me to officially retire from the day-to-day work,” Schofield said. “It’s been such an amazing career and I have so many people to thank for it, but […]

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“I don’t know how anyone remaining at Xbox Studios can feel safe” – New report reveals environment of uncertainty and fear, and a “staggering” loss of institutional knowledge

"Those that are left must be scrambling to pick up the pieces." Microsoft announced its Xbox restructuring last week, immediately laying off 1,600 people and slating a further 1,600 to be cut sometime between now and next summer. But no one yet knows who those jobs will belong to, meaning staff are working in fear

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HWMonitor now shows you thermal hotspot data for RTX 50-series graphics cards, so I thought I’d give one of ours a quick test

Hot off the news that repair shops have gained access to leaked internal Nvidia tools to gather RTX 50-series hotspot data, CPUID’s HWMonitor has added its own hotspot thermal tracking info in the latest update. Version 1.65 adds two hotspot sensor data rows within the graphics card column for RTX 50-series cards, right underneath the

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A SpaceX vet raised $65M to pull wire harnesses out of the Cold War era

When Senra CEO Jordan Black was a SpaceX engineer, he took on the job of scaling up the company’s wire harnesses to support production of Starship, the company’s next-generation rocket. Wire harnesses are what they sound like: the internal electrical cabling that runs through a rocketship, car, plane, or tractor and becomes increasingly important the

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According to a poll, Generative AI is being used at a whopping 100% Japanese online game developers, as copyright infringement concerns climb

This report, the 2026 edition of Japan’s Online Game Association’s (JOGA) Online Game Market Research Report, digs down into the topic of generative AI use in earnest. In a preview of the full report published by Famitsu, some insight can be gleaned into the adoption of the technology. The most staggering of generative AI findings

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Battlefield 6 is bringing back a feature we’ve not seen since Battlefield 2, and teasing a fitting Top Gun collab alongside it

We’ve known for weeks that Season 4 is introducing naval warfare to the game, though now we’ve had a glimpse of what this looks like. There are two new water vehicles coming: the RCB-90 Patrol Boat – essentially the equivalent of a tank – and the 7.7m NSW RHIB light transport boat. Much of the

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One of Android’s best PC game emulators just got a feature modders will love

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. If you enjoy playing PC games on your Android phone, chances are you’ve heard of GameNative. It’s an impressive, relatively new app, but it’s been getting regular updates. Now, a new GameNative update has made it an even better choice for fans of

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Marvel Rivals players are airing their frustrations over Season 9’s excessive “visual clutter” and other issues making it difficult to enjoy

Why is this relevant? Well, because Way is a self-professed Dungeons & Dragons fan and someone who’s engaged with RPG games over time – remember when he did a song for Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children? Of course, hardcore MCR fans would want to ask him about the biggest D&D video game of all time,

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As feared, those new Call of Duty Black Ops 1 and 2 ports are riddled with hackers, but Activision is at least doing something about it

For years on PS3 and Xbox 360, hackers have been ruining it for everyone in several ways – all of which appear to have made the jump to PS4 and PS5. Using certain exploits, hackers are able to reach max level instantly, demote other players in the lobby to a sub-one level, give themselves the

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“It’s already exceeding our expectations on Switch 2” – Dragon’s Dogma 2 Dark Arisen already running at ’30fps and higher’ on Nintendo handheld

“The RE engine, which we’re developing our games on now, is something that has actually been a really great fit for Nintendo Switch 2,” explains producer Naoto Oyama, when I ask how Capcom found the process of porting Dragon’s Dogma 2 to Switch 2. “As you mentioned, we’ve had some really well-received Nintendo Switch 2

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