Starting April 1st, the Nex Playground gets a price increase from $249 to $299. www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

It is ironic that the US decided it had to go to war with Iran to stop it from building a nuclear weapon and potentially closing the Strait of Hormuz, two things it had no intention of doing, and is now in a position where Iran is going to build a nuclear weapon and leverage the Strait.

No doubt we'll have movies in 20 years from now that show how US soldiers simply had to kill everyone in a single family, and how hard it was for them, by depicting something that never happened. Like how is this a real scene and not an SNL skit.

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

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Yang Binglin, a 91 year old gamer known as "Game Grandpa", completed Resident Evil Requiem completely unassisted, using notes and maps that he wrote BY HAND. Stories like this prove gaming knows no bounds of race, gender, age or anything else. We're united by our love of games. #fortheloveofgames

Sometimes, trainspotting is better than taking the train. Guilin, China.

Nintendo of America has announced that, beginning in May, it will introduce differing pricing for physical and digital versions of its Switch 2 games. Yoshi and the Mysterious Book will retail for $10 more ($70) physically than digitally. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintend...

"Virtually all routers are made outside the United States, including those produced by US-based companies" It's the foreign drone ban all over again.

Operation what now?

The newly added Peak Scout skin in Fortnite costs more than $20 in V-Bucks. Peak is only $8 on Steam.

It's impossible to keep up with Kingdom Hearts lore. I didn't know Sora was meant to be doing all of that.

Breaking: Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora

More layoffs today: PlayStation is closing Dark Outlaw Games, a studio formed last year by former Call of Duty lead Jason Blundell (his previous PlayStation studio, Deviation, was shut down in 2024). PlayStation is also making other cuts including in mobile development. Around 50 people laid off.

Zohran and Department of Consumer and Worker Protection commissioner Sam Levine just sat down to announce nearly $2 million being returned to over 750 workers at Taco Bell, Dunkin, and Theory. They made the announcement over Taco Bell and Dunkin.

Do you see how it’s too shameful to just state plainly what is happening, and what has been happening relentlessly for years now.

We've just published a FREE whitepaper titled: The Impact of Evergreen Games on the Global Market. Evergreen games have exceptional replayability with no fixed endpoint, allowing players to stay engaged for months or years. We identified more than 60 titles that meet our evergreen criteria.

Ayaneo says selling its Windows gaming handheld ‘is no longer sustainable’

Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters said he and Sharma have "kicked around ideas" for how Netflix and Xbox could work together on subscription bundles. https://ow.ly/kwOu50YyfmC An Ad supported version also being considered.

Crimson Desert has sold through 3 million copies worldwide in less than a week on PS5, Xbox Series, and PC: https://www.rpgsite.net/news/19951-crimson-desert-3-million-copies-sales-numbers

Poorly framed article. Even with a cut in production, this is still extremely high for Q1. Switch 2 is still the fastest selling console of all time. The weak US sales during the holiday period were a result of macroeconomic headwinds and lack of major releases

BREAKING: Epic Games is laying off more than 1,000 workers today, sources tell Bloomberg News. Story hitting shortly

🚨 US military document leaked to shows how the Pentagon is working with private companies to manipulate the information you see about the Iran war www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leaked-doc...

“The Phoenix Police Department will not discipline any officers for their roles in a massive city scandal where officials invented a fake gang and then falsely charged protesters as members back in 2020”

Capcom has clarified its stance on generative AI in its video games, saying that while it doesn't use gen-AI assets in their games, it is exploring ways to use generative AI to streamline the game development process. https://bit.ly/4t1E5cA

Nowhere in Lebanon seems safe, especially for those whose apartments are in evacuation zones that encompass nearly 600 square miles, according to the United Nations. interc.pt/3PBSQV6

3 of the oldest french studios (Nacon-owned) are declared insolvent following BigBen financial problems. As outsourcing is increasingly important in the revenues-mix of smaller studios, insolvency for such big entities creates a "domino-effect" that can severely impact many studios.

The Israelis are calling out Trump for market manipulation, lmao:

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Nintendo Switch is a more popular brand among Japanese teenagers than Disney, Pokémon and Nintendo itself, a new survey of more than 37,000 Japanese citizens has found. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintend...

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Iran says Trump is lying

Worth noting the full answer says Capcom won't use generative AI within game content, but it will use it during game development stages including programming, idea generation etc.

Socialist Emmanuel Gregoire wins Paris mayoral race https://aje.news/avzup6

The DLSS 5 backlash is not going away, says Rob Fahey. "This isn't knee-jerk outrage; Nvidia has sacrificed its gaming credentials to its strategic embrace of AI, and both consumers and developers hate the results" https://bit.ly/4sYML3E

If you want to understand what the next 3 to 5 years will look like for Square Enix.

it's hard not to keep coming back to the fact that they could simply have Not Done This they could have not bombed Iran! the strait would be open! we wouldn't be staring down a massive global economic crisis! none of this had to happen!

Israeli settlers carried out a pogrom for over 6 hours across the West Bank last night, targeting more than 14 villages, and no one stopped them. The Israeli army fully complicit.

Two Major Game Age Rating Agencies Split Over Dark Patterns https://kotaku.com/mario-kart-tour-gambling-esrb-pegi-age-rating-2000680828

We must lift the US oil blockade on Cuba. This is economic warfare designed to suffocate an island. Food is spoiling. Water supply is compromised. Healthcare services are disrupted. End the blockade now. Grateful to all those helping deliver humanitarian aid!

If every top Democrat doesn’t immediately condemn this threat of war crimes and collective punishment, without any ‘process’ BS complaints, then they should be primaried instantly. They’ll be complicit in this crime if they don’t speak out. Tainted forever.

Crimson Desert - statement on usage of AI

Spring just arrived and with it a new CCU peak for the Steam platform going from 42,042,778 to 42,318,602 concurrent users, and not only that but also a new in-game CCU peak with 13,819,439 from 13,399,958 in January 2026. The platform continues to grow at a steady rate.

What the US is purposefully doing to Cuba should be considered genocide.

The battle for Iwo Jima resulted in over 26,000 US casualties, making it one of the bloodiest Marine actions in history.

I hope Sony condemns the White House for using PS5 imagery to promote its administration.

We get an analysis of the Trump administration’s Iran war strategy from former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Harrison Mann: "We’ve seen them really just throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks."