I had high hopes for Nvidia’s DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Gen, but it’s not quite what I expected

Nvidia DLSS 4.5 has just landed via the beta version of Nvidia App, bringing with it the ability to try out the company’s latest and greatest version of DLSS frame generation. Along with yet another improvement to upscaling image quality and the ability to deliver up to five “fake frames” with its 6x frame generation…

Take-Two Reshuffles Its AI Team: ‘It’s Truly Disappointing’

The head of Take-Two Interactive‘s AI team has seemingly been laid off, along with an undisclosed number of other employees working on leveraging AI at the company that owns Rockstar Games, 2K, and Zynga. The reorg comes despite CEO Strauss Zelnick saying the parent-publisher is “actively embracing generative AI.” “It’s truly disappointing that I have…

Marvel Maximum Collection Review – The Good And Bad Of History

Collecting and celebrating older video games can be a challenging pursuit. Compilations that do so must balance the desire to preserve the original intent and structure of the games presented, while making them palatable and enjoyable to experience today. Marvel Maximum Collection mostly hits the mark, supplying fans a look at some of the most…

A former GameStop exec thought building its Steam competitor would be his ‘forever job,’ but the retailer bet the house on digital distribution being ‘a passing phase’

Before a career second act at Nightdive Studios, the recently-retired Larry Kuperman‘s big project was Impulse. It was to be GameStop’s answer to Steam, but it went the way of the dodo in 2014. Kuperman went into his personal history building up Impulse’s catalogue when we spoke at this year’s Game Developers Conference. Kuperman came…

Octopath Traveler TTRPG rulebook finally being translated into English

Link copied to clipboard Published Apr 2, 2026, 4:08 PM EDT Explore Orsterra with friends Image: Dark Horse Books Square Enix’s Octopath Traveler is a role-playing game masterpiece, weaving together the stories of eight heroes with big personalities and complicated backstories as they try to correct past wrongs and make a mark on the world. Designer…

MechWarrior studio Piranha Games lays off 30% of its employees

Russ Bullock, the CEO of MechWarrior developer Piranha Games, has confirmed that the studio has imposed layoffs, saying that roughly 30% of its employees have been let go. The layoffs first came to light on LinkedIn (via GamesIndustry), where multiple employees reported being let go; at least two of them said the layoffs came as…

More Games Need To Be Honest About Not Being Finished Yet

We are shy of two weeks out from the launch of Crimson Desert, and while I personally have been enjoying my time with the game, I feel it has been one of the more egregious examples of a modern trend in gaming: titles releasing as 1.0 when they should be releasing as Early Access. Since…

Meetup in Bellabel Park hides some of 2D Mario’s best moments

I wasn’t expecting much when I started playing Super Mario Bros. Wonder’s new Meetup in Bellabel Park DLC. Considering my pre-launch preview centered around the add-on’s Mario Party-like multiplayer minigames, I knew better than to expect a slew of wild new levels that took the base game’s creative Wonder Effects to new heights. I figured…

‘Any update is a bonus not a right’: Peak devs snap back at ungrateful players demanding more updates, ‘Neither us or Aggro Crab are live service studios’

Peak was one of the surprise successes of last year. What was originally meant as just a simple game jam project turned into a huge hit as hundreds of thousands of players gathered around the foot of the mountain with their friends with the aspirations of scaling it and escaping the deserted island. Since then…

‘What’s your salary? I told him, and he said no problem, we’ll double. And those days are gone:’ Listening to game dev legends reminiscing in 1989 about the ‘golden days of computer games’ already being over is a trip

Recently uncovered cassette tape recordings of the 1989 Computer Game Developers Conference reveal how much has changed in the games industry in the last 40 years, as well as how much has stayed the same. Decades ago, Origin Systems’ Robert Garriott was already worried about the PC gaming market being oversaturated, even when a mere…