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Aloy Voice Actor Ashly Burch 'Worried About This Art Form' After Horizon Zero Dawn AI Demo Leaks

By Ethan Gach - Kotaku | Mar 17, 2025 - 16:45

Voice actor Ashly Burch responded to an internal Sony tech demo featuring a generative-AI controlled version of the hero she plays in the Horizon Zero Dawn games, Aloy, saying it’s exactly why she and...

It's a worryingly perfect time to revive Assassin's Creed's old social stealth multiplayer

By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell - Rock Paper Shotgun | Mar 17, 2025 - 16:38

In a post last week about Steam's unhelpfully vague generative AI disclosure policies, Nic touched on "that most insidious side-effect of GenAI", the culture of paranoia it has bred among players w...

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is discounted at Newegg even before launch

By Alice Jovanée - Polygon | Mar 17, 2025 - 16:35

The next installment in the Assassin’s Creed franchise, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, jumps out of an innocuous hay bale on March 20, but you can already save on the Digital Deluxe Edition at Newegg. Norm...

This Pathfinder Humble Bundle lets you level up your TTRPG library and donate to charity at the same time starting at just $5

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 16:32

Support a good cause and snag some new TTRPG books at a huge discount with this Humble Bundle deal.

Inzoi is giving eager life simmers another free taste of its gorgeous character creator, with a bonus build mode demo for the architecture nerds

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 16:26

Inzoi: Creative Studio is launching later this week.

Power up your Gamer Network ID with our Steam Integration

By Craig Munro - Rock Paper Shotgun | Mar 17, 2025 - 16:06

We've been working on something that we hope you'll love -- especially if you're the kind of gamer who has a wishlist longer than a Final Fantasy cutscene (guilty as charged). Read more

Warner Bros. Wipes The Original Looney Tunes From Max

By Kenneth Shepard - Kotaku | Mar 17, 2025 - 16:05

Warner Bros. appears to continue its landmark campaign for Worst Mega Corporation of 2025, following moves like shutting down Shadow of Mordor developer Monolith Productions and killing its deal with...

Power up your Gamer Network ID with our Steam Integration

By Craig Munro - Eurogamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 16:02

We've been working on something that we hope you'll love -- especially if you're the kind of gamer who has a wishlist longer than a Final Fantasy cutscene (guilty as charged). Read more

Assassin’s Creed Shadows and the other new games out this week

By Tyler Colp - Polygon | Mar 17, 2025 - 16:00

The new game releases this week may look a little familiar, but all of them attempt to push their genres or series in new directions. We’ve got a dark game about a plague outbreak where you’re finally...

You can grab Undertale for less than $1, as the genre-defining indie RPG beats its all-time player peak for the first time in 10 years

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 15:56

Undersale.

EA Sports College Football 25 is just $10 right now

By Samit Sarkar - Polygon | Mar 17, 2025 - 15:54

While NFL free agency is in a frenzy at the moment, college football fans don’t have much to do except run mock drafts to see which NFL teams might pick their favorite players in next month’s draft. W...

Mod Pack Hints At Starfield Coming To PlayStation 5 In The Near Future

By Ethan Gach - Kotaku | Mar 17, 2025 - 15:40

It’s felt like only a matter of time until Starfield ends up on PlayStation 5 ever since Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer confirmed that no game is off limits when it comes to the company’s new mult...

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach pre-order guide

By Cameron Faulkner - Polygon | Mar 17, 2025 - 15:33

During a SXSW 2025 event, Hideo Kojima of Kojima Productions showed off a new trailer for Death Stranding 2: On the Beach for PlayStation 5, which included a long-awaited release date. It’ll be washin...

Undertale Sees New Peak For Steam Concurrent Players Nearly A Decade After Launching

By Evan Campbell - Gamespot | Mar 17, 2025 - 15:31

It's hard to comprehend that Undertale will be 10 years old later this year. But new audiences apparently keep finding the RPG, as the game broke its own Steam record for concurrent players on Sunday...

Death Stranding 2 Collector's Edition Preorders Are Available Now

By Steven Petite - Gamespot | Mar 17, 2025 - 15:12

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach preorders opened today, March 17, at major retailers and PlayStation Direct. Three different editions of the highly anticipated sequel will be available on PS5 at launc...

Here's The Very Best Cosplay From Katsucon 2025

By John Walker - Kotaku | Mar 17, 2025 - 15:05

With last month’s Katsucon in Washington D.C., the cosplay year is officially begun. As ever, Kotaku’s roving photographer Mineralblu was at the event to capture the most impressive fits, as well as m...

M. Night Shyamalan's Weirdest Twists, Ranked From Unnecessary to Unbelievable

By Keith Nelson Jr - Kotaku | Mar 17, 2025 - 14:55

I don’t blame you if you believe all M. Night Shyamalan movies are just 90-minute setups for a twist you never saw coming (and probably didn’t want to see). I wouldn’t blame you because the man has re...

Age of Empires 2 team continues to cook while delivering 'legendarily long' 8,000-word patch notes about 'the biggest updates' the 26-year-old game has ever had

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 14:55

Five new civilisations arrive in mid-April.

Backyard Baseball Coming To Mobile With No Ads

By Eddie Makuch - Gamespot | Mar 17, 2025 - 14:49

Backyard Baseball is coming to mobile, and it won't have ads. That's according to posts from the game's official social media account, which point to some kind of announcement on March 27.The official...

Life is Strange: Double Exposure reportedly a 'large loss' for Square Enix, says analyst, who adds: 'The company's IP fundamentally varies too much between good and bad'

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 14:43

Double-dipping.

Would you like to taste fish soup in VR? Me neither, but this electronic tongue does it anyway

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 14:38

It can also replicate cake, lemonade, and fried egg. Mmmm.

'REPO is fun': Lethal Company creator recants their criticism of the new co-op horror game after trying to move a grand piano through a mansion

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 14:22

You heard it here first, folks.

MSI RTX 5090 Suprim SOC review

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 14:09

The biggest, most powerful consumer graphics card I've ever jammed into our test rig, but not the RTX 5090 I would recommend.

Your Discord friends list may soon appear directly in the games you play

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 14:00

The new Discord Social SDK offers free friends lists, text and voice chat, and Discord client integration to game developers.

Fallout and Obsidian veterans ditch open-world game plans as team shrinks to a "skeleton crew"

By Tom Phillips - Eurogamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 13:56

Wyrdsong, the next game from a team of former Bethesda and Obsidian RPG veterans, is struggling on with a "skeleton crew" after further departures from its team and a rescoping of the game. Read...

Sony's making a new Starship Troopers film, separately from its Helldivers 2 movie

By Victoria Kennedy - Eurogamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 13:52

Sony Pictures is working on a new Starship Troopers movie with Gran Turismo filmmaker Neill Blomkamp - and to be clear, this is completely separate from Sony Pictures' Helldivers film, which was anno...

KOTOR remake returns for annual tradition of reminding you it's still alive, but no you can't hear anything more about it until it comes back next year to say it again

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 13:31

An old Jedi ritual.

Pokémon TCG Scalping Is So Bad That Official Stores Are Removing Packaging

By John Walker - Kotaku | Mar 17, 2025 - 13:30

As we approach the release of Pokémon TCG’s next set, Journey Together, the card game is in a really weird place. The sealed cards, bought either for playing the table-top game or for collecting, are...

Bulletstorm developer People Can Fly working on mystery PlayStation franchise

By Victoria Kennedy - Eurogamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 13:14

People Can Fly - the developer of Outriders and Bulletstorm - has signed a deal with PlayStation to work on a new project based on an existing Sony series. Read more

A rather pleasing Windows 11 update bug automatically uninstalls Copilot and unpins it from the taskbar, which is jolly nice of it

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 12:38

Ah, the eternal developer debate: Bug, or feature?

Valorant dev accepts there's too much random crap cluttering up the screen: 'The balance team generally agrees with this take'

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 12:25

"Good luck seeing your screen some rounds."

Life is Strange: Double Exposure was a "large loss" for Square Enix - report

By Tom Phillips - Eurogamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 12:24

The latest Life is Strange game did not perform well for publisher Square Enix, it's been claimed. Read more

PlayStation logo on Starfield website ignites PS5 launch speculation

By Victoria Kennedy - Eurogamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 12:09

It now seems even more likely that Bethesda's current Xbox console exclusive Starfield will launch on PlayStation 5. Read more

‘inCARceration’ Sees Players Driving Through Absurd Minigames

By Joel Couture - Indie Games | Mar 17, 2025 - 12:00

inCARceration finds you in a heap of trouble that you can only escape by taking on some really odd jobs while trapped in your car. While following the tutorial for an innocent... The post ‘inCARcerati...

Star Wars: Hunters shutdown confirmed

By Victoria Kennedy - Eurogamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 11:28

The twin suns are setting on Star Wars: Hunters. Read more

R.E.P.O. is Steam's latest viral horror despite its high mate requirement - but the devs are working on matchmaking

By Nic Reuben - Rock Paper Shotgun | Mar 17, 2025 - 11:24

R.E.P.O is a six player co-op extraction spooper that currently sits atop Steam's best seller charts, having amassed around 70k players the week following early access launch on Feb 26, and another 1...

Total War: Warhammer 3's next updates will tackle "anti-player bias" and self-destructive AI

By Nic Reuben - Rock Paper Shotgun | Mar 17, 2025 - 11:15

Back in Total FebWar, the Total War: Warhammer III team penned a desperate missive in entrail fluids, full of scrawled warnings about the changes coming to the strategy game's AI. With their last oun...

New headset reads minds and uses AR, AI and machine learning to help people with locked-in-syndrome communicate with loved ones again

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 11:11

No brain surgery required.

9 Kings is a roguelike city builder that's actually just an excuse to launch rocks at people

By Nic Reuben - Rock Paper Shotgun | Mar 17, 2025 - 11:09

I very much recommend the Steam demo for strategy game 9 Kings, so it's with no shade I say that I'm using 'strategy' here the same way a tube passenger might use a hardback of Ulysses to envelop the...

92% of Nvidia users turn on DLSS... if they've been lucky enough to bag an RTX 50-series card at launch AND have the Nvidia App installed

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 11:03

60% of the time, it works, every time.

This palm-sized PC has removably memory, a flip up screen, and a Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 10:44

Phenomenal processing power. Itty bitty screen space.

The Maw: what's new in PC games this week?

By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell - Rock Paper Shotgun | Mar 17, 2025 - 10:29

Good day to ye, reader! I'm not sure what the weather's like in other regions, but here in London we're approaching the unhallowed time of year when grown men are overtaken by the urge to wear shor...

Today's Wordle answer for Monday, March 17

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 05:00

Get all the help you need with today's Wordle.

Deconstructeam's next game is about training to shoot a single fireball at an impossible target

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 04:15

An Olympian task.

We asked two parkour athletes to rate the realism of Assassin's Creed's acrobatics, and a surprising 'crime against parkour' might actually be one of the most realistic things they saw

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 02:47

You won't be surprised to learn that the leap of faith is a little too Hollywood, though.

Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 17, 2025)

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 01:39

Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.

MechWarrior 5: Clans is getting DLC with playable Elementals and a fight on the outside of a spaceship

By PC Gamer | Mar 17, 2025 - 01:38

Ghost Bear: Flash Storm is due in April.

'I feel worried about this art form:' Unsurprisingly, the real Aloy from Horizon isn't a fan of AI Aloy

By PC Gamer | Mar 16, 2025 - 22:24

Horizon voice actor Ashly Burch speaks out about leaked AI tech demo of her character and calls for AI protection for game actors.

REPO's first update will add a new map and a 'duck bucket' so we can finally give that pesky quacker a time out

By PC Gamer | Mar 16, 2025 - 17:20

Tired of dying to that duck in REPO? Its first update promises a fix, plus a new map and more.

What's on your bookshelf? 80 Days, Heavens Vault, and A Highland Song's Jon Ingold

By Nic Reuben - Rock Paper Shotgun | Mar 16, 2025 - 17:00

Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! Three weeks! Three weeks is all it took befor...