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After programmers and artists, QA testers are next: Google’s new AI can play and test in-development games, and some publishers are all over it

Fear the reaper.

Destructoid · Aug 8

Japanese trading card shop is offering a bounty to anyone who can capture its robber "alive"

Let's not take this too far

GamesRadar · Jul 28

CEO of major Japanese studio says employees get pay raises if they ace a quiz about its games, because that's "a genuine skill"

It pays to be a student of Ni no Kuni

GamesRadar · Jul 2

No, Eric Barone is not adding infidelity to Stardew Valley, although he did briefly consider letting you ruin marriages, to Grandpa's deep disappointment

Some idle musing about the nature of morality in sandbox games has spiraled out of control.

PC Gamer · May 13

George Méliès tried to warn us about an AI robot uprising 130 years ago, and I'm not surprised

A long-lost George Méliès depicts exactly the kind of human-robot interaction you don't want to see.

TechRadar · Apr 13

Legendary Capcom artist says Elden Ring's visuals hold up against higher fidelity games like Crimson Desert because "the viewer's imagination is constantly stimulated to the fullest"

Akira "Akiman" Yasuda says "the graphics in Elden Ring are designed with careful control over the level of fidelity at each turn"

GamesRadar · Apr 11

129 Years Later, The First-Ever Sci-Fi Film Has Finally Been Found

Considered lost for over a century, Georges Méliès' 'Gugusse and the Automaton' features cinema’s earliest robot.

Inverse · Mar 9

Stellar Blade studio will expand its "self-publishing capabilities" – which could include the sequel to the ridiculously popular action game

Shift Up is shaping up

GamesRadar · Mar 2

Helldivers 2's siege of Cyberstan is the greatest galactic campaign the game has seen so far

They have the plans for the Death Sta- Wait, I mean the "Star of Peace".

PC Gamer · Feb 21

Helldivers 2’s ‘Machinery of Oppression’ update adds Cyberstan and socialist Cyborgs

The democracy is under the Cyborg threat again!

Dot Esports · Feb 10