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15 discouraging hours with the new Onimusha, and 10 brilliant ones with He Who Watches
2+ hour, 33+ min ago (1789+ words) In the last few weeks, while playing some video games that I might review, I emailed two cries for help. I sent the first to a rep for Capcom, confessing that the company’s samurai game Onimusha Way of the Sword…...
Facing lawsuit, Sony argues it’s already obvious that digital games aren’t owned by consumers
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (230+ words) Sony says its current disclosures around digital purchases on PlayStation are clear enough that “reasonable consumers would not be misled” into thinking they actually own the digital games they pay to play. Sony made the argument on August 21 in a…...
A compressed look at GTA VI
1+ week, 1+ day ago (288+ words) It’s August 27, the day we finally got to see official Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay, which debuted on Netflix at 3pm ET. And it’s a day of previews, testing the bounds of the English language, such that IGN could publish what…...
China flexes at GamesCom
1+ week, 3+ day ago (837+ words) A two-hour showcase for upcoming games in Germany today may have ended with segments dedicated to works from top studios in Japan (Final Fantasy VII Retribution out next spring) and Poland (A remaster of Witcher 3 out September 29; an expansion out…...
GTA VI’s week of leaks
2+ week, 2+ hour ago (1227+ words) Big upcoming video games often leak, but not quite the way it’s been happening to Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto VI for the past several days. Earlier this week, a person or group going by the online handle CyberLeek posted…...
Game File 23% off sale - ends today
3+ week, 7+ hour ago (198+ words) That’s $77 a year, down from the standard $100, to get full access to my reporting for the next 12 months. Maybe you’ve never read my double-feature investigation into a wild false advertising lawsuit that revolved around a Star Wars video game, which…...
BREAKING: Netflix to shut down two more game studios
3+ week, 1+ day ago (544+ words) Netflix is sticking with video games but once again reducing the number of studios it owns making games. The streaming giant is closing Los Angeles-based Night School studio, which it acquired in 2021 and plans to close Helsinki-based Moonloot, which was…...
Saber, accused of replacing a writer with ChatGPT, explains how AI was used to help write upcoming video game
3+ week, 1+ day ago (717+ words) Writers working on Saber Interactive’s upcoming driving game Rideshare Stimulator are using AI prompts to generate driver-passenger dialogues that they then edit for the game’s “experimental” side mode, the company’s CEO Matt Karch tells Game File. This is in addition…...
Mario Kart World can't quite shake Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Nintendo sales reports show
3+ week, 2+ day ago (450+ words) Nintendo’s nine-year-old Mario Kart 8 Deluxe remains a strong seller for the company, so much so that it just might be eating into the sales of its Switch 2 sequel, according to a Game File analysis of recent Nintendo sales data. The…...
My visits to Rockstar Games
3+ week, 3+ day ago (757+ words) In today’s video, I’m going back 20 years to talk about what it used to be like to check out Rockstar’s games ahead of release. Why? Because of GTA VI being in the news and because, as I noted last week,…...