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“ARCADE IS DEAD,” developer Housemarque abruptly decreed in all caps on its blog shortly after Matterfall’s release in 2017.This candid manifesto explained how the team saw no future developing the arcadey games it had specialized in for over two decades and was moving onto different genres. Returnal was the result of this shift in focus, taking the aesthetics and chaos inherent to Housemarque’s house style and throwing it all into a roguelike third-person shooter. It was a cult hit that saw critical acclaim, but Saros, Returnal’s spiritual sequel, seems to rebuke that glorious foundation by shunning the very genre with…

Like many others, I first used Instacart during the early days of the pandemic when it was a lifesaver. Literally. As the primary caretaker of my immunocompromised grandmother, I was at a loss for how to do something as simple as feed her without risking dangerous exposure. And although I love delivery from a restaurant, it’s expensive and unhealthy. With Instacart, I was able to get her healthy groceries and favorite comfort foods delivered to us right at home without having to risk exposure.Even now, post-COVID, Instacart still saves the day for me. I live in Brooklyn, and there are…

Grand Theft Auto 6 could be one of the most expensive games ever in terms of its budget, and this kind of investment may only be sustainable for a small group of games, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said in an interview.Speaking to Bloomberg, Zelnick giant investments only make sense for “massive blockbusters,” and “that’s super hard to do.” Of course, GTA 6 is expected to be one of those games, but the industry overall is in for even tougher times ahead if production costs keep ramping up.”We certainly can’t deal with exponential growth–we probably can’t even deal with linear growth–in…

Chaos erupted at schools and colleges throughout the US on Thursday as a cyberattack disrupted online learning platform Canvas just as students were due to take final exams. Canvas parent company Instructure said that as of Friday morning, the platform was back online. Instructure said it temporarily took Canvas offline on Thursday after identifying unauthorized activity in its network. The threat actor was the same one responsible for a data breach that Instructure disclosed a week ago. Data accessed included user names, email addresses, student ID numbers, and messages exchanged on the platform. The company said it has no indication…

PlayStation CEO Hideaki Nishino devoted a surprisingly long portion of his recent Sony earnings presentation remarks to making the case for AI and how it will benefit gaming and the company’s bottom line. He was not subtle, and he didn’t hedge, laying out an ambitious vision that sees AI tools incorporated everywhere from the PlayStation Store to the ways in which Naughty Dog and Guerrilla Games render characters’ hair. “We believe AI will unleash the creativity of our studios, power a more curated platform, and enhance the PlayStation experience for both players and creators,” he said. Nishino made the case…

“This is not COVID. This is not influenza. It spreads very, very differently,” Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s acting director for epidemic and pandemic management, emphasized in a press briefing Thursday. Given the nature of this virus and the precautions and monitoring already in place, “the risk of widespread transmission to the general public is extremely low,” Michael Marks, an infectious disease expert and professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said in a statement Thursday. The comments echo a reassuring risk assessment on Wednesday from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, which elaborated that even…

We all know the satisfaction of defeating the final boss in a game and rolling credits, but what then happens to your thwarted opponent? Demon Lord: Just a Block is a stunningly good turn-based action-roguelite in which you play as the defeated Demon Lord, trying to put his life back together after his epic defeat. It’s time to get revenge on those pesky heroes. Set in a grid-based world, Demon Lord: Just a Block is a fascinating combination of tactical battles and a towering pile of roguelite systems, with such an intricate selection of variables that each run can feel extraordinarily…

Anyone following the modern game industry knows that easy-to-use game engines and the accelerating shift to digital distribution have helped enable a massive increase in the quantity of commercial games released each year, both on console storefronts and especially on Steam. Now, Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Hideaki Nishino says we should expect the rate of new game releases to accelerate even faster as new AI development tools make it easier for developers big and small to pursue new projects efficiently. In a presentation to investors on Friday, Nishino noted that Sony “expect[s] to see a meaningful increase in…

Like any other manufactured chip, the wiring that connects the quantum dots is locked into place during the chip’s manufacture. Since different error correction schemes require different connections among the qubits, this forces us to commit to specific error-correction schemes during manufacturing. If a better scheme is developed after a chip is made, it’s probably not possible to switch to it. Less complex algorithms may benefit from simpler error-correction schemes that require less overhead, but we wouldn’t be able to switch schemes with these chips. So, quantum dots appear to typify the trade-offs that we’re facing with quantum computing: it’s…

Mortal Kombat II is in theaters now, and I’m gonna be real, I kinda forgot a lot of the finer details about its 2021 reboot predecessor. That’s probably on me for not doing a rewatch beforehand, but also the film’s release was delayed by a whole six months, giving my brain several additional months to overwrite my memories of watching the first movie in quarantine with something else. However, Mortal Kombat II did manage to remind me that one character was kind of a big deal in the first movie, which made it all the more surprising that the sequel…