Games

GTA 3’s iconic box art was changed at the last minute because of 9/11, ex-Rockstar lead Dan Houser reveals

"He did that in about two evenings." The most interesting to me is how the iconic boxart for GTA 3 – a template that has been used for every game since, by the way, most recently being co-opted for GTA 6’s cover – was actually put together very last minute. “What’s funny is the cover

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Planet Zoo 2 review: Superstar animals and frustrating micromanagement

What is it? Zoo-based management sim with added fish, birds, and nature reserves. Reviewed on: AMD Ryzen 5 3600, Nvidia 2080 Super, 32 GB RAM, Windows 10 Multiplayer: No, but you can share creations. Planet Zoo 2’s animals are truly majestic creations. Even at a time when games are gnawing at the chain-link fence of

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Former PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai used to ignore orders from Sony bosses, he reveals

"What the headquarters says is irrelevant." News by Sherif Saed Senior Contributor Published on Oct. 13, 2026, 12:12 p.m. Prioritise us on Google Kazuo “Kaz” Hirai, who was the president of PlayStation from 2007 to 2012, apparently didn’t pay much attention to orders he received from Sony’s top brass. Hirai recently revealed this in a

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Don’t neglect crafting furniture in your Arc Raiders outpost—it unlocks hundreds of extra storage slots

Arc Raiders’ new outpost system arrived with the Frozen Trail update, and like many I’m sure, I pretty much ignored the entire furniture aspect of it. My mind was occupied with upgrading the outpost itself, building rooms, and trying to get an Emperor Modulator and Frigate Inductor to level my Gunsmith and Research Bench. I

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Asha Sharma reportedly tells rattled Xbox employees: “We have to find new ways, and courage, to have invention on new IP”

"We will not survive if we only revive on the past." Sharma apparently made those comments during a company-wide ‘town hall’ meeting last week, which Windows Central claims to have seen transcripts of. Incidentally, we’ve asked Microsoft to verify this town hall meeting took place and whether these transcripts are accurate. Sharma reportedly said this

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Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve review – thrill-packed campaign takes this long-running series to new heights

Wait! There are are two lasers! I have no longer got this. This is suddenly in an entirely different postcode. Even as one falls, the overlapping chatter in my ears gets busier still. Take both of them out or the carrier will take a Spear strike. Move. Don’t think. Quickly now. 45 seconds. Tasha’s anxious;

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“I was forced to ship the game” – Glen Schofield blames Krafton management for The Callisto Protocol’s problems

"A lot of them were caused by Korean management." In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Schofield expressed frustrated bewilderment at Krafton’s handling of his Striking Distance company, which it had invested in, during the Covid pandemic. Krafton allegedly promised Striking Distance three extra months of development time and then rescinded it. “I was forced to ship

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Arc Raiders player-numbers rebound with the launch of Frozen Trail and the game’s 2.0 release, but they might be deceptively high

On Steam, Arc Raiders’ concurrent player counts rose sharply following the update’s release, shooting up to a 185,443 peak (via SteamDB). This is the highest concurrent player count Arc Raiders has seen since March, and it’s notably higher than the game’s usual sub-40,000 daily peaks. Indeed, looking more closely at player numbers you can see

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Epic Games reportedly delays Star Wars and Marvel shooter, as the Fortnite maker embraces “AI-accelerated development”

That’s according to a Bloomberg report from journalist Jason Schreier, citing anonymous sources familiar with the unannounced game. Epic’s in-development project – a collaboration with Disney – is said to have hit a speed bump, and the Fortnite maker is apparently telling its developers to embrace more gen-AI tools for the rest of the game’s

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Valor Mortis review

I probably shouldn’t have been too surprised, of course. Valor Mortis is the work of One More Level, the studio behind 2020’s brilliant, equally frenetic parkour-and-sword adventure Ghostrunner and its 2023 sequel. But as protagonist William Dowsett, a soldier in Napoleon’s Grande Armée, wrenches his reanimated body out of the mud at the start of

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