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Splash Damage says layoffs are likely as the Transformers game it announced in 2022 is cancelled
Transformers: Reactivate was first revealed at The Game Awards in 2022, but nothing's been seen of it since.
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2024 was the year updates for old games beat out all the new ones for me
It wasn't a stand-out year for new games, but a lot of my favorites got some of their best stuff yet.
Legendary joker ports Balatro to the 44-millimeter screen of an Apple Watch, calls it 'Wee Balatro'
Jimbo would be proud. Or enraged. To tell the truth, I don't really have a handle on Jimbo yet.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joins the rush to kiss Trump's ring: 'I'd be delighted to go see him and congratulate him'
Just one problem: He hasn't been invited.
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Deadly fires in LA lead to office closures for major game studios as tens of thousands evacuate
A firestorm has killed at least two in LA County and destroyed over 1,000 buildings.
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Inzoi is creating a newfangled life sim NPC that can 'grow and develop its own personality' with Nvidia's AI tech
Krafton and Nvidia are putting "co-playable characters" to the test in multiple genres.
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Marvel Rivals patch has way more nerfs and buffs than we thought: A whopping 24 heroes are changing this week
A Hela-a-lot of tweaks.
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Tiny anime girl cyberprison shown at CES
It rotates, and it listens.
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Marvel Rivals' most-picked hero also has one of the lowest win rates
Which heroes win the most? Healers, healers, healers.
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NetEase pulls funding for another studio: Former Halo Infinite design head says Jar of Sparks is 'halting work' while it looks for a new publisher
Jar of Sparks, headed by Halo and Destiny 2 veteran Jerry Hook, was founded in 2022.
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Train like you game with this adventure-inspired workout
Level up your lunge, hero.
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WoW's finally upgrading its dreaded swirlies so players can actually tell where it's safe to stand
Only took a couple of decades.
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I saw a tiny robot dog do a handstand at CES 2025 and I recorded it for your amusement
Says it all really, doesn't it?
![](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/N5zg699us4wHDwLJQXHLK7.jpg "A Unitree Go1 robot dog doing a "handstand" at CES 2025")
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AIB vendors getting the RTX 5080's memory config wrong could mean 50-series Super cards have more and faster VRAM
Yeah, it's a little early to be talking Supers, but just call me an optimist.
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Early Radeon RX 9070 benchmarks are positive, though don't bank too much on them
I'm hoping further tests prove just as strong.
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Monster Hunter Wilds is getting more open beta tests before launch—but they'll be missing Capcom's latest performance improvements
The second beta will feature a new hunt against a returning monster and a new reward for the full game.
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Hyte's new $20 processor frames are yet another way to customise your gaming PC
Finishing touch or unnecessary add-on?
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D&D's revised Monster Manual is tackling one of the game's biggest hangups—and adding a new menu of BBEGs: 'We wanted the Tarrasque to have some fighting buddies'
They did the monster re-hash.
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Ken Levine never expected Take-Two to shutter Irrational after Bioshock Infinite: 'The decision was made at a corporate level'
"Take-Two did a BioShock remaster: That would have been a good title for Irrational to get their head around."
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Valve is changing the way it updates Deadlock 'to help improve our development process', so you can say goodbye to the regular biweekly posts
"We look forward to fleshing out the game in the new year."
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