Chris Roberts sent his yearly note to Star Citizen backers, giving another update on Squadron 42. The single-player game, now aiming for a 2026 release, is reportedly still on track for its beta next year. Roberts claims the campaign will last over forty hours, boasting about its writing, performance capture with major Hollywood actors, and overall polish. The plot follows a rookie pilot in the 42nd Squadron, fighting pirates and the alien Vanduul from the capital ship UEES Stanton. The studio used a 4D scanning process with Clear Angle Studios to create digital versions of actors like Gary Oldman, Mark Hamill, and Henry Cavill.
Roberts also mentioned a shift in marketing strategy, stating they will not run a prolonged campaign before...
ASRock dropped new BIOS files for their AMD and Intel boards, prepping for next-gen chips. Their 600 and 800 series AM5 motherboards got a stable update with AGESA 1.2.7.1. This paves the way for coming AMD processors, probably those Ryzen 9000X3D models and new Zen 5 APUs. A handful of specific boards received it, like the X870 Nova WiFi and the B650 Pro RS. Over on Team Blue, ASRock pushed version 2.12 for two Intel 800 series models, the B860M-X Gen5 boards. That update adds microcode for upcoming Intel Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs, expected to be chips like the Core Ultra 9 290K Plus.
The move suggests new hardware announcements are approaching. More AM5 models from ASRock will likely get the same stable BIOS soon. For now, support is...
A former Rockstar technical director spilled that Grand Theft Auto could have been set in Tokyo, Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, or Moscow. Obbe Vermeij, who worked on GTA III, Vice City, San Andreas, and the next major installment, said a Tokyo version almost got made by another studio. The series famously sticks to fictional American cities like Liberty City for New York, because parodying U.S. culture is its core identity. Vermeij noted the insane financial stakes make risky locations unlikely.
He explained the safe bet is always the United States, serving as the familiar epicenter of global culture. Players recognize these places even without visiting. With development cycles now spanning over a decade and budgets ballooning...
The upcoming James Bond game from IO Interactive has been pushed back by two months. Titled 007 First Light, the project will now launch in late May instead of late March next year. The developer stated the delay provides necessary time for final polishing and refinement, emphasizing that the game is already fully playable from start to finish. As an independent studio, they framed the decision as crucial for delivering the quality experience players expect at release.
This move follows the recent reveal of musician Lenny Kravitz voicing a key villain named Bawma, alongside confirmation that Bond's iconic Aston Martin Valhalla will be featured. The team plans to share more updates through a behind-the-scenes series early next year...
A lead developer for ARK: Survival Ascended says an upcoming engine upgrade will deliver major performance gains. Jeremy Stieglitz confirmed the team is internally testing Unreal Engine 5.7 for a planned release next March. He described the update as a near-magic bullet, expecting a thirty to forty percent improvement in both processor and graphics card performance. The biggest boost comes from new systems for rendering foliage more efficiently, a feature demonstrated recently in a tech demo for another high-profile game.
Stieglitz acknowledged that the game's notorious stuttering issues, common in many Unreal Engine titles, would improve but likely not disappear completely. He explained two core causes specific to ARK. One stems from...
A financial analyst in Poland predicts a major new expansion for The Witcher 3 will launch next year. This rumored thirty-dollar downloadable content could arrive around the game's eleventh anniversary in May 2026. The report suggests this add-on would serve as a narrative bridge to the next mainline Witcher game, potentially providing more story details about the character Ciri's journey.
This is not the first rumor about additional content for the aging role-playing game. A Polish industry commentator previously claimed a new story expansion was in development at Fool's Theory, a studio staffed by series veterans. The studio is already working on a remake of the original Witcher title for CD Projekt Red. The speculation indicates...
A new 5K gaming monitor from ASUS demonstrates how demanding that resolution is, even for top-tier hardware. The display offers a high refresh rate, but a recent test showed NVIDIA's flagship RTX 5090 D GPU struggling to maintain smooth performance. In a graphically intense game like Cyberpunk 2077 with ray tracing enabled, the card averaged only about fifty-one frames per second at native 5K resolution, despite using DLSS upscaling on a balanced setting.
Switching the same game to 4K resolution provided a roughly fifty percent performance boost, pushing the average frame rate into the seventy seven range. This highlights the massive pixel count increase from 4K to 5K, which is nearly seventy-seven percent more demanding. Even in a...
The long stalled live action Assassin's Creed series for Netflix is finally moving forward with key hires. Johan Renck, the director behind the acclaimed Chernobyl miniseries, has been chosen to helm the adaptation. Casting is also underway, with actors Toby Wallace, Lola Petticrew, Zachary Hart, and Laura Marcus confirmed for regular roles, though their specific characters remain unknown.
Production is scheduled to begin in Italy during 2026, with the country also serving as the primary setting for the story. The official description mentions the eternal secret war between two factions fighting over humanity's future, a premise central to the video game franchise since its inception. Beyond this basic conflict, plot details about...
Electronic Arts shareholders have voted to approve the company's sale to a private investment group. The consortium includes major stakeholders like the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund and a firm linked to Jared Kushner. This decision represents the first major step in a process that will now face intense scrutiny from government regulators across several countries, a review expected to last well over a year.
Political opposition is already forming, with United States senators expressing national security concerns about foreign influence over a major American entertainment company. Canadian labor unions have also petitioned regulators, fearing the deal's massive debt load could lead to significant job losses at EA studios in that...
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