Massive new data centers are the physical foundation for tech companies’ hopes and dreams for AI. But the rush to expand warehouses full of energy-hungry servers has also kicked up fights across the world over their impact on power grids, utility bills, nearby communities, and the environment. Data centers were a major bipartisan issue ahead… read more

Yesterday, Nier: Automata received a new patch on Steam, adding more language support to the title – it can now be played with Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese options – but this new update also, somehow, inflated the file size of the game on PC from about 50GB to 366GB. D'oh! What's worse is,… read more

The Xbox PC app hasn't had the best track record in recent years, but Microsoft is promising that it's now much faster and easier to use than before. Read more Read Full Article read more

Ananta, the "anime GTA" game from NetEase, has an early 2027 release date, steering clear of Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto 6. Read Full Article read more

Former Rockstar Games North technical director Obbe Vermeij believes that the possibility of AI vibe coded ports of Grand Theft Auto 6 could push Rockstar to create an official PC version sooner than you'd expect. Read more Read Full Article read more

It's been a good year for Nintendo: between Star Fox – the N64 classic with a dazzling facelift on Switch 2 – and the newly-launched and utterly fantastic Ocarina of Time remake, the platform holder is having a good run. And that's before you get to the likes of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, Nintendo Switch… read more

Age of Empires-influenced real-time strategy game The Fertile Crescent 2: Collapse of the Bronze Age leaves early access today, publishers MicroProse have announced, with the 1.0 version adding the final chapters of the singleplayer story. You'll also get your grubby fingers on the very same map editor developers Wield Interactive used to design the campaign.… read more

GTA 6's PC release may come sooner than anticipated, according to former Rockstar North technical director Obbe Vermeij, because Rockstar and publishers Take-Two will be concerned about losing money to unofficial generative AI clones of the PS5 version, once it launches on 19th November. In general, Vermeij thinks that how to avoid having your games… read more

Tripwire Presents, the publishing division of Tripwire Interactive, announced a new initiative to expand support for smaller indie developers and games.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. Read Full Article read more

Ambitious Cyberpunk 2077 multiplayer mod, Open 77, finally has a release date, and a really nifty server browser to boot. Read Full Article read more

World of Warcraft: Forever came out last night. Those who stayed up were prepared for the usual from major WoW releases: long queues, disconnects, and server lag. However, save for a few minor hiccups here and there, things went off without a hitch. Read more Read Full Article read more

It feels like every single week for the past few years has been the infinitely quotable 30 Rock quote on repeat. That feeling struck particularly last month when EA decided to shut down the iconic Mass Effect and Dragon Age developer BioWare. That obviously resulted in the cancellation of Mass Effect 5, of which a… read more