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Konami AI stance: why its president doubts AI will reshape games
Konami Digital Entertainment president Hideki Hayakawa says game engines already opened the door, and people, not AI tools, still make games worth playing.
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PlayStation Plus Extra adds nine games in October, led by Mafia
Sony's October Game Catalog adds the latest Mafia, Horizon Forbidden West and seven more, with most arriving Oct. 20 and a second wave on Oct. 27.
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Assassin’s Creed Destiny: leaked clips show the lost China game
Prototype clips from a scrapped Tencent and Ubisoft project show a female assassin, a warlord boss fight and a spinning umbrella weapon set in 206 BCE.
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Street Fighter 6 welcomes Arjun as a new fighter with fresh arcade content
Arjun, a framed Indian police officer who fights with breath and pillars of earth, is live in Street Fighter 6. Here is how to unlock him and what else arrived.
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PS5 jailbreaking AI speeds up hacks that run PS2 and PS3 games
AI coding tools are speeding up PS5 hacks and game decompilation. Sony has answered with two firmware updates in October, and GTA 6 is raising the stakes.
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WoW Forever skips Goblins and Vulpera to honor original lore
Vulpera, Goblins and Haranir are off the table. The only new race at launch is the Skyborne, and Blizzard says Forever will tell its own, smaller-scale stories.
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This Minesweeper parody outfits the game with voice banter and brands
Triple-A Minesweeper is a free browser joke that buries the classic Windows puzzle under engine logos, chatty characters and markers that play the game for you.
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Indie studio sold $560K on Steam but founders kept $15K a year
Northend Games co-founder Omer Develioğlu shows how refunds, Steam's 30% cut, taxes and a publisher shrank $560,000 in sales to about $15,000 a year each.
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Indie games roundup spotlights short, low-cost stories and puzzles
A three-hour road trip about grief, a Traitors game for your phone and a wave of demos lead this indie roundup, with dates for what comes next.
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Valor Mortis PS5 release brings Napoleonic soulslike on Oct 13
The Ghostrunner studio's first-person soulslike launched October 13 on PS5, Xbox and PC for $39.99, with a free PS Plus trial and day-one Game Pass access.
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Monster Hunter Rise arrives on phones via Netflix Games
The full Capcom hit runs natively on phones with rebuilt touch controls and no ads, but for now it is a soft launch limited to a few countries.
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Neon Abyss 2 lands on PS5 with neon-soaked roguelike runs
The run-and-gun sequel left Steam Early Access on October 8 and arrived on PS5, Xbox and Switch the same day, with four-player online co-op and more than 600 new items.