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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.

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

Let's not take this too far

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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

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Final Fantasy 14 rewards Japanese players for paying their taxes: make a donation and get a pile of MMO cosmetics

Granted, it's a lot more than their in-game store price in taxes to get them all

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Final Fantasy Resonance devs know "random encounters can feel like a hassle at times," but they're in the upcoming JRPG because "they also allow you to make memories"

Resonance is going back to basics for the franchise

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Capcom says generative AI "still cannot match" the devs who make Resident Evil and Monster Hunter, but it is useful for testing games

Capcom's Shinichi Inoue says it cuts down on routine work

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Forza Horizon 6 wows an OG Silent Hill lead and other Japanese players with its realistic setting: "It's so Japanese, it's almost too Japanese. It feels like everyday life"

Players are astounded by all the minor details

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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

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

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"

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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

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

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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

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

The democracy is under the Cyborg threat again!

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The Cyborgs are coming back to Helldivers 2—and they're bringing 3 new units armed to the teeth with advanced technology, and also robo-roundhouse kicks

"Leave us and there will be peace".

PC Gamer

Automatons speak! Helldivers 2 nemesis hacks Super Earth channels in desperate plea to save Cyberstan: 'WE HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED FREEDOM'

"TELL YOUR LEADERS TO STOP THIS MINDLESS WAR."

Windows Central

Helldivers 2's new Bastion tank absolutely rules — it's amazing and awful all at once, and my new favorite stratagem for spilling Automaton oil

I've put Helldivers 2's new Bastion tank through its paces, and am happy to confirm: it's absolutely awesome.

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Helldivers 2's new explosive hammer is the most dumb fun I've had in ages

Hammering a hulk in the face never gets old.

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Helldivers 2's overpowered, wildly fun tank is the culmination of two years of balancing

I hope the Bastion tank is a sign of what's to come in Helldivers 2.

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Helldivers 2 grunts, your tank awaits: Completely "pancake" Automatons threatening democracy with "new heavy-hitting" Bastion Tank

"In the wrong hands this symbol of peace would become a weapon of total annihilation – a threat to freedom itself"

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Helldivers 2's next premium Warbond comes with a reloadable, exploding hammer, but what's got fans' attention is Arrowhead's tease of a returning faction from the original game

Helldivers fans will be quaking by the trailer's end

GamesRadar

As notorious 'Adult Only' Animal Crossing: New Horizons island shuts down after 5 years, creator thanks Nintendo for "turning a blind eye" for so long: "I apologize from the bottom of my heart"

Oh.

PC Gamer

Game devs charged up to 50x more for fonts by Japanese typeface maker and yes, even this might be AI's fault

AI doesn't pay.

PC Gamer

Like a Dragon creators won't buckle to mainstream western tastes: 'people start making strange things when they misunderstand what their business is supposed to be'

Ryu Ga Gotoku won't create a foreign protagonist whose story is set overseas.

GamesRadar

Nintendo, cover your eyes: Kirby Air Riders players fight back as micro bikini vehicle gets removed from the Switch 2 racer, immediately replacing it with a newer, sexier version

The open flames aren't the hottest thing in Chef Kawasaki's kitchen

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