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The German Games Industry Association says every square metre of exhibition space in Cologne is booked, a first for the show. The guest list is broad. One notable name is still missing.
Rockstar put more than 20 minutes of Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay in front of the public for the first time, debuting it on Netflix before a free release. The November launch date did not move.
The new Ray Reconstruction model is a second-generation transformer that Nvidia says does more work per frame at similar cost. It went out during Gamescom, through the Nvidia app, for the whole RTX line.
Demis Hassabis is becoming DeepMind's chairman and Alphabet's chief scientist. Day-to-day control of Google's AI lab passes to CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu, and chief scientist Jeff Dean is leaving to start something new.
For twenty years the mid-budget game was where studios took swings. It has quietly become the riskiest thing a publisher can greenlight. We trace how the middle fell out of games — and who is trying to rebuild it.
A widely shared report says Grand Theft Auto VI's release has slipped. We have not verified it — so here is a clean summary of what Rockstar has confirmed.
Rockstar's newest Grand Theft Auto VI trailer is dense with intent. We slow it down and separate the confirmed details from the things fans are reading in.
The first Aurora Deck was a rough draft. The sequel keeps the good panel, fixes the thermals, and ships the launcher it should have had at launch.
Players can only main so many games at once. As more studios chase the same recurring-revenue model, the maths stops working for most of them.
A detailed fan map of Leonida is doing the rounds again. We walk through how to assess a leak like this without either dismissing it or trusting it outright.
Synthetic voices can fill gaps, localise cheaply, and keep a character consistent across years. They also raise a labour question the industry has not settled.
When a digital store shuts down, the games do not always survive it. We look at what is actually lost, and the small number of things that reliably help.
Away from the marketing, studios have quietly adopted AI tooling for a handful of specific jobs. We map which parts of the pipeline it has reached.
Rockstar has a long history of releasing its biggest games on PC months or years after console. Here is a grounded look at where a GTA VI PC port stands.
Traversal hitches and first-encounter freezes are not inevitable. They are the result of specific engineering choices, and other studios have solved them.
"AI NPC" can mean anything from smarter pathfinding to a character driven by a language model. We separate the tiers and where each one is useful.
Spec sheets make handhelds look interchangeable. The things that decide whether you keep using one are further down the page. Here they are.
DLSS, FSR, XeSS and frame generation all promise more performance. They do different things, with different costs. Here is the plain version.
Self-publishing removes the revenue split and the creative notes. It replaces them with a long list of jobs a publisher used to do. Here is that list.