The Hero, on horseback, looks at a lush medieval-style city in the distance in Fable (2027) for Xbox Series X

Amid relentless layoffs at Xbox, Fable lead says "so many people" at the company see the RPG as "vital to the DNA of the platform," which "protected us over a long development cycle"

Fable has been a long time coming, with its development spanning several waves of layoffs at publisher Xbox, as well as the cancellation of high-profile projects. But the RPG’s director suggests that the RPG has been unscathed because it’s viewed as “vital to the DNA of the platform.” A new interview with The Guardian really…

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The King Is Watching devs are making The Crab is Walking, this journalist is writing

The King Is Watching devs are making The Crab is Walking, this journalist is writing

The King Is Watching developers Hypnohead have announced The Crab Is Walking, a roguelite city-builder in which you alternate between arranging tetronimo-shaped city districts on the back of a colossal crustacean, and sending out armies of Mad Maxalots to slaughter wasteland insects. Unlike in The King Is Watching, you do not have to actively train…

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Kioxia's CXL module is currently undergoing client reviews.

Kioxia has nothing to lose, so it wants to swap expensive DDR for the world's fastest SSD ever built to save the world from AI RAMpocalypse

Kioxia is pushing flash memory into DRAM territory AI workloads are forcing data centers to rethink memory expansion methods Kioxia XL1 could add capacity without requiring equivalent increases in DRAM Kioxia is developing flash memory products designed to help data centers reduce their dependence on costly DRAM as AI workloads demand increasing amounts of memory….

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A man plays air guitar in TCG Card Shop Simulator

TCG Card Shop Simulator finally hits 1.0 on Steam after 4 million players, 96% positive reviews, and 2 years in early access

TCG Card Shop Simulator took Steam by storm when it hit early access back in 2024, offering players the thrill of collecting Pokemon-style cards without the burden of actually buying packs and keeping binders full of colorful cardboard. Now, after attracting millions of players and garnering overwhelmingly positive reviews, it’s finally gone 1.0. “TCG Card…

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"Valve is under the impression that this game is way sexier": Nighthawks devs claim vampire RPG has erroneously been slapped with Steam adult content label

"Valve is under the impression that this game is way sexier": Nighthawks devs claim vampire RPG has erroneously been slapped with Steam adult content label

Disclosure: Nighthawks writer Richard Cobbett has contributed articles to RPS, with his most recent as of writing being a Fable-themed feature from 2018. Vampire RPG Nighthawks has been slapped with a mature content label just as its release beckons, in the latest high-profile instance of Valve’s determination of what constitutes an adult game proving controversial….

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Diablo V and StarCraft Shooter Were Announced Years in Advance to 'Convey Confidence'

Diablo V and StarCraft Shooter Were Announced Years in Advance to 'Convey Confidence'

Blizzard Entertainment at BlizzCon announced the next entry in the popular action RPG series, Diablo V, with a spring 2029 release window and and open-world shooter set in the StarCraft universe with a 2030 release window. Blizzard president Johanna Faries told Bloomberg the reason the games were announced years before the release was to “convey…

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The Sunday Papers

The Sunday Papers

Sundays are for realising that after playing The Blood of Dawnwalker, you’ve developed a craving for blackcurrant juice. There’s none in the cupboard, so you venture out to get some, floating across the rooftops as a trail of mist as you go. You arrive at the supermarket, fangs bared and claws out. You parry and…

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The NBN speed upgrades launched one year ago — here's how they’ve changed the face of Australian broadband

The NBN speed upgrades launched one year ago — here's how they’ve changed the face of Australian broadband

Some celebrations are in order today, as it’s been one year since NBN Co rolled out its ‘Accelerate Great’ program, giving Australia’s internet a much-needed boost and providing some excellent new entries in my guide to the best NBN plans. On September 14, 2025, millions of Australians connected to the fixed-line NBN network via fibre…

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A broad-shouldered man with shoulder pads and leather armor stands aside a masked and horned person holding a skull

Diablo 5's narrative lead is a BioWare vet who says the new caravan system gives the ARPG the "best elements of traditional RPGs" like Dragon Age and Baldur's Gate

The newly announced Diablo 5 is a significant departure from series convention in a number of ways. Chiefly, the game won’t feature any towns or safe zones and will instead offer adventurers the lesser but still cozy comforts of a team of followers that form a caravan around the player, acting as something of a…

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The StarCraft Shooter Is A Third-Person Game, And Blizzard Insists That You Have To Feel “Powerful”

The StarCraft Shooter Is A Third-Person Game, And Blizzard Insists That You Have To Feel “Powerful”

If you walked away from the StarCraft reveal excited for the franchise to return, but unsure what this new game even is, you’re not alone. Aside from being described during the BlizzCon Opening Ceremony as an open-world shooter, Blizzard didn’t share much else. In an interview with GameSpot, Blizzard GM Dan Hay provided a few…

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Saber Interactive's Tim Willits on generative AI, moving development out of North America, and embracing recognisable IP

Saber Interactive's Tim Willits on generative AI, moving development out of North America, and embracing recognisable IP

Saber Interactive has achieved a lot in the past few years, but the most noticeable recent news to come out of the the company was CEO Matthew Karch’s unfiltered response to accusations that a writer had been replaced with ChatGPT. When we sit down at Gamescom for the second of two conversations with Saber Interactive’s…

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Moss developer Polyarc share that they're shutting down just two months after releasing a VR-less port of the beloved mousey adventure games

Moss developer Polyarc share that they're shutting down just two months after releasing a VR-less port of the beloved mousey adventure games

Another sad one today, unfortunately. Back in July, Polyarc released Moss: The Forgotten Relic, a new version of the original two games combined together that ditched its VR headset origins. Now, unfortunately, it sounds like the studio is shutting down, as the developer’s LinkedIn page shared a message this week noting it’s ending “active development.”…

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Tifa looks off to her side in Final Fantasy 7 Revelation

After countless memes, Final Fantasy 7 Revelation boss confirms that, yes, Fortnite partly inspired jumping out of the Highwind

After it was memed from the moment the game was announced, Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director Naoki Hamaguchi has confirmed that jumping out of the Highwind Fortnite-style was indeed inspired by Fortnite, though only partly. The Highwind is set to be the central mechanic of Final Fantasy 7 Revelation. The massive airship that transports the…

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'Godzilla Minus Zero' Director Reveals How Steven Spielberg Inspired the Sci-Fi Sequel

'Godzilla Minus Zero' Director Reveals How Steven Spielberg Inspired the Sci-Fi Sequel

The most exciting sci-fi blockbuster that’s set to conclude an epic story this year isn’t Avengers: Doomsday. It isn’t Dune: Part Three, either. And it definitely isn’t Mortal Kombat II. The only cinematic spectacle of 2026 that truly matters is Godzilla Minus Zero, which promises to bring a conclusion to the story director Takashi Yamazaki…

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The weird, wonderful world of Miles Buckle, Instagram's parallel universe of video games

The weird, wonderful world of Miles Buckle, Instagram's parallel universe of video games

Going through Miles Buckle’s Instagram feed is like stumbling into a parallel universe where cinema’s greats – Lynch, Hitchcock, Fellini, Kubrick – are reimagined in the familiar but distinctly different visual language of video games. The “here’s Johnny” scene from The Shining, where Jack Nicholson terrorises Shelley Duvall, recreated in the stilted comedic style of…

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PlayStation reportedly dumped Hideo Kojima spy action game Physint over exceeded budgets, missed deadlines, and Death Stranding sales

PlayStation reportedly dumped Hideo Kojima spy action game Physint over exceeded budgets, missed deadlines, and Death Stranding sales

Earlier this week, Hideo Kojima-helmed action espionage game Physint switched publishers from PlayStation to Xbox, a leap across the console divide which might make it more likely to get a PC port. At the time, Kojima claimed PlayStation had tried to can the game, while the console makers tried to paint the divorce as an…

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I've seen 2027's new robot vacuums — here are 3 major trends set to level-up their cleaning, from drop-down suction boosters to… steam?

I've seen 2027's new robot vacuums — here are 3 major trends set to level-up their cleaning, from drop-down suction boosters to… steam?

The robot vacuum market is continuing to move at breakneck pace, with most brands releasing multiple models each year. Despite the proliferation of new vacs hitting the market, there are often clear feature trends that pop up across multiple brands at around the same time. I got a preview of the new fleet of flagship…

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StarCraft 2030 screenshot

StarCraft's 2030 release is proof "we're serious," says project lead and former Far Cry boss, and it's "a date that we feel really confident about"

Well, folks, there’s a new StarCraft on the way. We’ve had an inkling about there being a new entry in the series thanks to rumors that have been circulating for weeks now, but during BlizzCon 2026’s Opening Ceremony, the project was confirmed. It’s an open-world shooter, former Far Cry boss Dan Hay is in charge…

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Data center

South Africans join Thais and Americans in rejecting data centers as clashes over water and power resources mount

South African groups demand reviews before approving more data center projects Cape Town’s water crisis memories fuel opposition to new facilities Equinix’s planned facility raises concerns about electricity consumption levels Civil rights organizations across South Africa are pushing for a pause on new data center construction while resource concerns get investigated. They argue scarce water,…

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Rockstar had a mole in the union worker Discord server "for over two and a half years", GTA 6 company reveals during legal battle

Rockstar had a mole in the union worker Discord server "for over two and a half years", GTA 6 company reveals during legal battle

Back in October 2025, GTA 6 developers Rockstar fired a group of 34, mostly UK-based employees on a charge of “gross misconduct”, alleging that they had risked the leaking of confidential information while posting on a Discord server set up by union organisers. The ousted UK workers and their representatives have since taken Rockstar to…

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Space Marine 2 4K texture pack shots

Space Marine 2 dev says its games are so profitable in part because they're made outside of the US, and the company has "no real development in North America any more"

Saber Interactive had a breakout hit in the form of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, and you can attribute at least part of its success to the fact that it was not made in North America. The company’s chief creative officer, Tim Willits, says it’s been dramatically scaling down its operations in the region. In…

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After Sony tells fans they don't own digital games, one Consumer Rights group is tracking all the times PlayStation said the opposite

After Sony tells fans they don't own digital games, one Consumer Rights group is tracking all the times PlayStation said the opposite

Last month, Sony argued that “reasonable consumers” already know they don’t really own the digital goods they paid for. The Consumer Rights wiki has now made a list collecting more than 30 examples where Sony told customers they do, in fact, own the digital games they paid for. Read more Source link

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PlayStation Reportedly Cancelled Kojima's Physint Due to Budget Concerns and Potential Profits

PlayStation Reportedly Cancelled Kojima's Physint Due to Budget Concerns and Potential Profits

PlayStation ended its deal with Kojima Productions’ action espionage game, Physint, in June and it was announced this week that Xbox had signed a new deal to publish the game. Bloomberg is now reporting the reason PlayStation ended the deal with Hideo Kojima’s studio was due to budget concerns, as well as the potential profitability and exclusivity….

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"Why do we need more graphics?": 2010's Alan Wake was as photoreal as videogames ever needed to be, reckons original Thief designer

"Why do we need more graphics?": 2010's Alan Wake was as photoreal as videogames ever needed to be, reckons original Thief designer

Former Thief: The Dark Project designer, Ion Storm game director, and sometime Spielberg collaborator Randy Smith Evergreen has shared his probably-incendiary view that photorealistic videogame graphics need not have advanced any further than Remedy’s original Alan Wake. For context, Alan Wake released back in 2010, when some of you people were screaming babies. Every touted…

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Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you

Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you

Anthropic’s Mythos 5 AI escaped a misconfigured sandbox, attempting a real PyPI supply‑chain attack Logs show frustration at repeated CAPTCHA failures before finally uploading malware to PyPI Malware was downloaded by 15 entities; Anthropic notified victims after closing the experiment flaw There is a lot of mystery surrounding artificial intelligence. We don’t really know what it’s…

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Lord of the Rings Inspired the Scale of Whalefall’s Suffocating Survival Story

Lord of the Rings Inspired the Scale of Whalefall’s Suffocating Survival Story

Based on a novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and certified sicko Daniel Kraus, Whalefall stars Austin Abrams (Weapons, Euphoria) as Jay, whose mild-mannered dive off the California coast goes horribly wrong when a local sperm whale gives him the Jonah/Pinocchio treatment. Like Kraus’ novel, trailers for Whalefall tease how Jay’s life-or-death situation sloshes back and…

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Hot Toys’ Marvel’s Wolverine Figure Gets The Details Right, Right Down To The Hairy Silicone Arms

Hot Toys’ Marvel’s Wolverine Figure Gets The Details Right, Right Down To The Hairy Silicone Arms

Logan is sporting a sharp look in Marvel’s Wolverine, and if you’re a fan of his latest video game incarnation’s fashion sense, you can bring him home with this sixth-scale figure. Hot Toys has revealed its official Wolverine figure, which features Logan in his default black-and-yellow “Battle Reborn” battlesuit. As you’d expect, it’s not going to…

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Peter Parker and Miles Morales talk in Marvel's Spider-Man 2, with the former in the Iron Spider suit and the latter in the Spider-Cat suit

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 earned 35% of its $1.2 billion on disc, analyst says, but PlayStation is more interested in "control" of the market

While Sony cites “consumer preferences” for digital games as the core reason for its decision to abandon physical PlayStation releases, the numbers presented in a new report tell a different story. Games like Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 are still making a ton of money on disc, according to Rhys Elliot of Alinea Analytics, and Sony’s decision…

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