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Crimson Desert Studio Used its Own Engine Over Unreal to Have More Control Over Necessary Features
Lead engineer Jin-hwan Kim spoke about wanting to avoid relying on technology made by external companies for "core competencies".
European studio expenditure on external talent rises 63% in 2025
In 2025, European studios increased spending on external roles by 63%, outpacing the global growth rate of 55%. Read more
Life is Strange studio Don’t Nod says it may have to lay off 90 staff, warns it may not last beyond January
The developer needs to secure external financing soon or it could face closure
Don't Nod warns it may not have enough funding to operate beyond January 2027
Don't Nod has warned there is "material uncertainty" over its ability to continue operating beyond January 31, 2027, unless it secures further external financing. Read more
Sony Reportedly Greenlights Killzone’s Return after over a Decade in the Grave, Even Ahead of Horizon 3
Now, that's something we didn't really have on our bingo cards: Killzone making a return after well over a decade of hiatus. MP1st reports that a remaster or remake is in the early stages of development, with Guerrilla Games working alongside an external team on the project. Originally, the plan...
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"Sometimes you need fresh perspectives" – How external development helped Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis
A hands-off demonstration of Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis at Gamescom last week showed that the game is far from a simple remaster of the 1996 original; it's a complete reworking of Lara Croft's first adventure. Read more
PAX West - MADE IN JAPAN COLLECTION -
This is part of an initiative created by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) to promote Japanese games around the world. We're excited to show off the coolest Japanese games carefully selected from an open call for entries, ranging from AAA titles to games developed by individuals! Visit...
No really, Samsung's USB4 P Series SSDs come in at over $2,000 for the luxury of 4,000 MB/s
Samsung has unveiled its next generation of external drives, and the new P9 and P7 SSDs definitely feel premium. The portable solid-state drives are powered by USB4, a newer USB standard, which helps conjure up impressive read and write speeds of up to 4,000 and 3,800 MB/s (where the P9 is...
Grand Theft Auto 6 Team is “Nervous,” Says Co-Studio Head, “Wants Things To Be Perfect”
"It’s a hard thing. As much pressure as we feel externally, I don’t think it can compare to the pressure we put on ourselves as a team."
12 Japanese Indie Games Head to PAX West 2026 With Special Guest Kingdom Hearts Veteran Yosuke Shiokawa
The MADE IN JAPAN booth will make its PAX West debut this September, bringing 12 playable Japanese indie games to the event alongside LUNAR PULSE Game Director Yosuke Shiokawa. Organized by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), the booth will be open from September 4 through September 7 at...
gamescom - MADE IN JAPAN COLLECTION -
This is part of an initiative created by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) to promote Japanese games around the world. We're excited to show off the coolest Japanese games carefully selected from an open call for entries, ranging from AAA titles to games developed by individuals! Visit...
One Crucial 4TB SSD Customer Stands Ground And Refuses Lousy $200 Refund Offered By Company; Perseverance Finally Results In A “Direct 1:1 Replacement”
As Micron has made plans to exit the consumer SSD and RAM business, its Crucial brand is expected to fade into oblivion, meaning that customers will be left high and dry when seeking warranty replacements for their solid-state drives. One 4TB Crucial X9 external SSD ended up failing, prompting the...
SanDisk is celebrating 30 years of Pokemon with Mew and Mewtwo edition drives, and gaming storage has never looked cuter
SanDisk has unveiled a new addition to its Pokemon storage line-up with the introduction of new Mew and Mewtwo Edition external drives.
An Old Laptop’s Only M.2 Slot Was Used To Hook Up An RX 7900 XT, Achieving 60 Tokens/s In Qwen3.6 27B & 100K Context Window; External Drive Was Used For The OS
The lack of a dedicated GPU on a laptop means you’re fresh out of luck when it comes to running local LLMs on your machine, but an old Lenovo notebook owner didn’t give up because he had one trick up his sleeve; using the available M.2 slot to attach his desktop AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT....
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 on Switch 2 supports mouse mode with Joy-Cons
The official Call of Duty account has revealed that the Nintendo Switch 2 version of the sure-to-be popular Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 won’t have support for an external USB mouse and keyboard mode. However, the fast-paced first person shooter will allow an alternative control scheme with the...
A “Headless” M4 Pro MacBook Pro Owner Avoided $700 In Display Repair Fees By Strapping An M1 MacBook Pro Using Rubber Bands And The Screen As A Live Monitor
A broken MacBook display will be one of the costliest repair jobs you’ll ever have to witness, to the point that users are more than comfortable keeping the bottom half of the portable Mac and attaching it to an external monitor. However, one Redditor took things one step further. Wanting to avoid...
NVIDIA Wants To Turn Your Home Wall Into A Mini Data Center By Packing 16 Blackwell GPUs And 4 server CPUs In A Liquid-Cooled, Wall-Mounted Box At $0 Upfront Cost
NVIDIA is now giving select homeowners the opportunity to share in the ongoing AI-driven gold rush for compute by mounting its Blackwell GPUs onto the external wall of your house, all for $0 upfront cost. SPAN has partnered with NVIDIA and PulteGroup to install free wall-mounted Blackwell GPU nodes...
Sony Accused of Blocking Wolverine Discounts in Brazil, But There May Be More to It
Brazilian retailer Gamer Hut halts Marvel's Wolverine pre-orders on Shopee following external demands to disable platform discount coupons.
Sony Accused of Blocking Marvel's Wolverine Discounts in Brazil
No savings for you, bub. Sony has been accused of blocking sales of Marvel’s Wolverine via a Brazilian website which allows the use of discount codes. Local store The Gamer Hut, which operates within Shopee, claims that an “external” request required it to prevent the use of vouchers or cease...
EA could sell "dormant IPs" like Ultima and Wing Commander after Saudi acquisition, former manager says: "There are plenty of IPs like that at EA that nobody cares about at this moment"
"I think probably they will leverage that either by just selling it or trying to find external studios that can work on that"
A Customer Thought He Struck Gold With Three 32TB External Hard Drive Purchases, But He Found Out The Enclosures Had Nothing But A microSD Card Glued To The PCB
These few months have been exceptionally cruel to consumers because of the AI boom, particularly those who have a need for all kinds of storage, both internal and external. The desperation in the air can cause buyers to make a truckload of mistakes, such as one individual who believed he scored big...
Halo Studios Reportedly Outsourced Campaign Evolved to 15 Studios, as Microsoft Weighs Involving Activision’s Sledgehammer Games in the Process
A new report from insider RebsGaming claims that Halo Studios is increasingly relying on outsourced development for its future projects, following heavy use of external studios on the recently launched Halo: Campaign Evolved, as well as the canceled multiplayer game codenamed Project Ekur....
New Steam Deck Update Bricks an Owner's Screen
A Steam Deck owner says a recent system update has left the handheld's built-in screen unusable, with the device only displaying an image when connected to an external monitor. Valve launched the Steam Deck in 2022 and has continued supporting the handheld through frequent SteamOS updates.
"I'm not interested in bypassing DRM" - Preservationist brings back physical PC games using discs and even mechanical HDD "cartridges"
Preservationists are fighting to keep physical media alive, but it turns out even shiny new PC games can be popped on discs and cartridges. In fact, you can theoretically turn any external storage you've got lying around, like old SD cards and USB sticks, into a game that will then automatically...
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