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Thief designer says the graphics arms race should have stopped at Alan Wake
Posted on Monday September 14, 2026
Randy Smith knows a thing or two about game design. The developer worked extensively on the Thief series before funding indie studio Tiger Style in 2008. Most recently, Smith shared his thoughts on how studios should approach graphics fidelity in games. Spending increasingly enormous sums of money chasing extreme photorealism...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Apple's secret iPhone game controllers could launch under the Beats brand
Posted on Monday September 14, 2026
According to the well-connected Gurman, Apple has been working on in-house game controllers for the iPhone for over a year now. The main goal is to enter what Apple has identified as a growing market and compete with the slew of third-party options that already exist.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Sony says gamers don't own their digital purchases, but 44 examples of its own wording suggest otherwise
Posted on Monday September 14, 2026
The collection spans PlayStation support pages, store listings, and official blog posts, with live links, archived snapshots, and highlighted screenshots showing exactly where Sony uses ownership language.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Micron offered its Taiwan workers up to 68 months' pay. They turned it down within hours
Posted on Monday September 14, 2026
Following up on our report last month, Micron has now made its offer to employees demanding AI boom bonuses. Every Taiwan-based employee hired on or before August 29, 2025 gets a one-time cash bonus of NT$1 million, about $31,650, with prorated amounts for anyone who joined afterwards.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Anthropic CEO warns AI botnet swarms could soon take over the internet as Musk and Altman back slowdown
Posted on Monday September 14, 2026
Amodei wrote his warning in a lengthy open letter. He said his theoretical botnet swarm could be here in under a year because of the accelerating rate of AI capability development.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Blizzard just announced Diablo V, and this time Diablo actually won
Posted on Monday September 14, 2026
Three years after releasing Diablo IV, Blizzard is already hard at work on a new entry in the popular ARPG franchise. Diablo V will be built exclusively around the titular villain, who was conspicuously absent from the previous game, while players will reportedly face a much darker world where the...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4 with a new race, over 1,000 new quests, and 9 dungeons
Posted on Monday September 14, 2026
The new MMORPG is Blizzard's answer to WoW fans who've been clamoring for a Classic+ version of the original title, and it will serve as the third permanent version of the game alongside Modern (Retail) and Classic.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
StarCraft is coming back as an open-world shooter, but you'll have to wait until 2030
Posted on Monday September 14, 2026
Rumors of a new StarCraft game have been circling for a while now. Its existence was confirmed during the opening ceremony of BlizzCon with a three-minute cinematic video.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
New Bernie Sanders bill would ban superintelligent AI and threaten developers with 20 years in prison
Posted on Monday September 14, 2026
The first paragraph of the announcement states that the Act would stop AI oligarchs from building machines humans cannot control.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
The iPhone Duo's best feature isn't the fold, it's the software built around it
Posted on Saturday September 12, 2026
Sometimes it really is the details that matter.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »