GTA 6 publisher CEO doubts AI generation tools will make games more profitable or cheaper

But they will make competition “more intense” for developers who don’t have them GTA 6publisher Take-Two Interactive’s CEO Strauss Zelnick has been on the blower to the company’s investors about the idea of making games using the latest artificial intelligence content generation tools. Echoing hisrelatively guarded enthusiasm for NFTsa couple of years ago, he’s sort of mixed on them, regarding AI tools less as transformative technologies than simply the latest step towards the eternal industry objective of More, Faster And Better For Less....

November 9, 2023 · 4 min · 645 words · Ashley Barr

GTA 6 trailer breakdown

The first trailer and release date for Grand Theft Auto 6 have been confirmed Want to know more about GTA 6?Grand Theft Auto 6is the next GTA game from Rockstar Games, and now that we’ve had a first trailer and release date confirmed, there’s a lot more to talk about than earlier in the year. Read on for everything we know so far about GTA 6. In this guide: GTA 6 trailer breakdown...

November 9, 2023 · 3 min · 619 words · Carla Becker

How Slay The Spire saved digital card games from stagnation

“The constraints of the game force you to explore and be creative, and that’s good.” “To be a good designer, you have to have very, very strong opinions,” saysSlay The Spiredesign lead Anthony Giovannetti. “Show me a game designer who gives a thumbs-up to most things, and I suspect that’s probably someone who doesn’t have a very good game design sense. I want someone who really, really loves and hates things, and gives you reasons why....

November 9, 2023 · 7 min · 1415 words · Mary Mccoy

Latest Starfield update fixes one of the game's biggest annoyances - eating stuff - while adding DLSS

A Chunky patch indeed Bethesda’sStarfieldis awash with things to eat or drink, from half-munched club sandwiches to bits of steaming alien gizzard, but chugging your fill has always been fussier than it needs to be, involving a trip through the game’s irritating menus. No more! The nextStarfieldpatch, which is currently available as an opt-in Steam beta, will let you guzzle things without opening your inventory, on top of various tweaks to the game’s graphics and quests....

November 9, 2023 · 2 min · 419 words · Patrick Thomas

Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name review: a rebirth marred by repetition

The colosseum is fantastic, though When Kiryu’s tale “ended” inYakuza 6, it left me in absolute tatters. A faked death finally saw him freed from the shackles of the yakuza with one big catch: he couldn’t ever see his family again. Since then, we’ve had the plucky Ichiban take on the mantle of Tojo Clan nastiness inYakuza: Like A Dragon(7), with its sequelLike A Dragon: Infinite Wealth(8) set to wash up on Hawaii’s shores next year....

November 9, 2023 · 7 min · 1449 words · Samuel Brown

Modern Warfare 3 disappointment has COD players hankering for the grand old days of Infinite Warfare

Time to once again escape to the one place uncorrupted by capitalism? Let’s start again. As you may know,Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3- not to be confused withCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3- isout from today, 9th November. Pre-ordering players and a few lucky journos (whom we absolutely don’t fear and resent for receiving copies early) have been able to play the campaign since 1st November, and the reactions and reviews thus far haven’t been great....

November 9, 2023 · 4 min · 711 words · Marc Jackson

NYT Connections hint and answers (Thursday, November 9)

Need a hint for today’s Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #151 This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 12th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now. It’s calledConnections, and if you haven’t played it before, now’s the time to start....

November 9, 2023 · 3 min · 557 words · Russell Gordon

Samsung's 980 Pro 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD has dropped to $103 at Amazon US

A previous RPS favourite that’s still one of the fastest drives available. The Samsung 980 Pro works well for gaming and content creation workloads on PCs, but will also serve as extra internal game storage for PS5 consoles - though Sony recommend adding an NVMe heatsink to ensure performance remains high. We’ve recommendedthis $9 modelfor ages after testing it ourself, if you’d like to pick one up.

November 9, 2023 · 1 min · 67 words · Bethany Mata

Starfield's protagonist almost sounded like party members Sam Coe and Andreja

Bethesda woke up and chose silence Starfield’s cast of sidekicks includes cowboy dad Sam Coe voiced by Elias Toufexis, also known as the voice of Adam Jensen in Deus Exes Human Revolution and Mankind Divided. This wasn’t the role Toufexis was originally hired for, however. The actor revealed that he and fellow voice actress Cissy Jones, who voices romanceable party member Andreja, were originally hired to voiceStarfield’s protagonist. “Yeah it’s true....

November 9, 2023 · 2 min · 268 words · Jonathan Thomas

Steam Deck OLED review: not the Steam Deck 2, but the next best thing

A new screen and bigger battery make this a transformative upgrade I didn’t know theSteam Deck OLEDexisted until last week, and yet it’s essentially something I’ve wanted for nearly two years. Asgreat a handheld gaming PCas the originalSteam Deckis, its slightly bland IPS display and short battery life are some definite weak points – points to which newer, shinier rivals, such as theAsus ROG AllyandLenovo Legion Go, have been happy to apply pressure....

November 9, 2023 · 9 min · 1850 words · William West

Teardown's wild west expansion will arrive next week

Yeehaw Teardown’s first DLC will launch on November 15th. It’s called Time Campers, and it seems to be about taking a time travelling caravan back to the wild west so you can dynamite your way through saloons, bridges, and steam trains. Also there’s a horse. Find all of the above in the release date trailer below. Teardown is a heist game in which you spend an infinite amount of time destroying walls, ceilings, floors and positioning physics objects in order to give yourself the perfect escape route....

November 9, 2023 · 1 min · 146 words · James Robinson

The Steam Deck OLED is here, but Valve say not to expect a true next-gen Steam Deck "for a long time"

Why it “didn’t make sense” to give the OLED model higher performance While theSteam Deck OLEDisawash with upgradesover the original handheld PC, it’s not a full replacement, and Valve still reckon that anyone wanting a proper Steam Deck 2 will be waiting a while. I was told as much on theSteam Deck’s first anniversaryearlier this year, and according to Valve designer Jay Shaw and software engineer Jeremy Selan, that stance won’t change once the Steam Deck OLED releases on November 16th....

November 9, 2023 · 3 min · 505 words · William Peterson

Valve announce the Steam Deck OLED with an upgraded screen and longer battery life

Out next week, alongside price drops for original Steam Deck models Valve love their surprise hardware announcements, and there’s just been a doozy in theSteam Deck OLED. It’s a “definitive” refresh of the existing Steam Deck handheld PC that swaps the underwhelming IPS display for a brighter, more vibrant OLED panel, while making numerousbattery lifeimprovements – up to and including a new, more efficient AMD APU – that promise significantly more time away from the mains....

November 9, 2023 · 4 min · 751 words · Julie Smith