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Because of that experience, I know that new revenge shooter Better Than Dead, out now on Steam, has some of the most realistic-looking gunplay I've ever seen in a game. In fact, it sometimes looks and sounds so real that I almost feel a little gross playing the newly released bodycam FPS. But unlike those videos on LiveLeak, Better Than Dead is a video game featuring faceless, digital baddies. So I can enjoy the action movie amount of carnage and the tense, heart-pounding gunplay found in each level.

You can go on Wikipedia and ask, "What are the most popular stages? What are the best finishing moves," but it's so different to be able to go directly to the horse's mouth, the guy who has been interacting with the fan base for 34 years, and say, "What is the one stage the fans have always asked to see in a movie? What are the finishing moves that would get the theater on its feet and screaming?"

He said this in an interview with Bloomberg, adding, "It's hard to imagine where it's actually helpful in the process. I'm just really unimpressed with it."

Epic has been "exploring different AI tooling that we can use to help support our games." Arnett said she understands that "everyone's biggest fear" is that "AI is going to take all our jobs." "That's not our goal. The goal is to make us more efficient," she said, offering up an example that, with the use of AI, developers might be able to complete tasks more quickly.

May 10 was Uncharted 4: A Thief's End 's 10-year anniversary. The PlayStation 4 sequel effectively caps off the saga of Nathan Drake, even as rumors of some kind of fifth game continue floating around . Less tidy was Uncharted 4 's development, which entailed pretty significant changes after creative director Amy Hennig left Naughty Dog in 2014.

Here we are at was once a great American company. EA, man. They started, they called themselves the Electronic Artists. They don't want to make currency machines. Nah, screw that! They wanted to make art. They put it in their name. Art. The Electronic Artists because they wanted to make something to make people feel something. We're gonna get into it, because that hasn't exactly really gone as planned, has it, y'all? Do you feel like you're surrounded by artists right now? No. Does this look like a studio to you? No. It's just another business. Just another place trying to turn what you love into money.

The second installment will expand the cap to four players while adding new classes and weapons. Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 doesn't appear to reinvent the wheel from its arcade-like predecessor. "Xenomorphs stalk the corridors, ambush from the shadows, and swarm in overwhelming numbers," the shooter's announcement reads. If that isn't (also) a description of the first game, I don't know what is.

Jirsa told PC Gamer that he understands why people hate when art is generated with AI, and that's because he hates it, too. While using AI to generate art that would be released to the public is not something Jirsa is interested in, he said the technology can be "really helpful" during development in other ways. That includes AI-assisted programming efforts and coming up with concept art with genAI.

Helldivers 2 's recent review tally on Steam is currently sitting at Mostly Negative, and the latest wave of negative reviews has also dropped the game's overall ranking down to Mostly Positive. In an attempt to put the fanbase's minds at ease, developers Arrowhead put out a post on Steam, Reddit, and Discord to address some recent complaints...which has somehow only managed to upset fans even further.

But this indecisiveness is precisely what has held back Saros and is evident in nearly all of its systems. This contradiction is most clearly and consistently felt in its gameplay. While Saros' limited level variety and stagnant bosses are weaknesses that go against the spirit of the genre, its stunted build variety is its most egregious fault. Roguelikes typically thrive on throwing variables at the player--be it a cadre of perks, weapons, or, in Balatro's case, Jokers--and spontaneous inte

Luna Standard (the part of the service available to all Amazon Prime subscribers) now includes Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, the Resident Evil 2 remake and Alien: Isolation as part of its rotating library, on top of Luna's growing collection of local multiplayer games.

Ryan Cohen announced that he was selling a bunch of stuff on eBay to try to fund the Funko Pop store's proposed $56 billion bid for the online reseller site. The stunt follows criticisms that the executive doesn't have enough cash to actually make that acquisition. But it appears that at least some of the items being auctioned could be remnants looted from the legendary Game Informer Vault, where the long-running publication housed decades of video game history before GameStop shut down the publication in 2024.

ZA/UM Studio, the company behind Disco Elysium, just dropped a trailer for its upcoming RPG Zero Parades: For Dead Spies. This is the first real footage we are getting of the game, though we got a mysterious teaser last year when it was still being called Project C4. This is a highly stylized sci-fi RPG in the vein of Disco Elysium, but with a unique scrapbook-esque visual style. It's being called a "psychedelic espionage RPG," and the name suggests a heavy emphasis on spycraft.

A movement known as the Players Alliance HQ has announced its intent to "raid" EA's headquarters on May 11 at 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET. The goal is to denounce Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) buyout of the publisher, with cosplaying gamers planning to unravel a 50-foot scroll of over 70,000 petition signatures on the Madden football field at the center of the campus. There appears to be a whole performance involved in the protest as well, with gamers dressing in suits and top hats portraying the "corporate villains" behind the deal.