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AI's myriad of capabilities offers unique new possibilities for publishers, developers, and even platform-holders to monetize the video games industry.

New forecast date from Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) indicates that console and PC gaming will only comprise 27% of total U.S. games earnings for 2023.

Certain Affinity reveals new tidbits about Halo Infinite's new supposed battle royale mode Tatanka, including that it's been in development since 2020.

AMD's next-gen RDNA 3 will see GPU chiplets enter the race, AMD has a 'big lead' over NVIDIA and 'they'll be forced to do so'.

AMD says 'power consumption is exploding since demand is outstripping gains' and expects GPU to have hungry 600W TDPs in 2025.

Blizzard buys indie studio Proletariat, who now plans to shut down their game Spellbreak to work on new World of Warcraft content.

DICE's new general manager Rebecka Coutaz promises the triumphant return of the Battlefield franchise with EA's new foundation.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is coming in 2023 exclusively for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S systems, won't be on last-gen.

Renowned game dev Warren Spector (Deus Ex, System Shock) thinks that NFTs are 'ridiculous' and has 'no interest' in them.

Electronic Arts confirms it has 3-4 unannounced new projects in a 'deep pipeline of content' slated to release in FY23 period.

NetherRealm senior production manager Jonathan Andersen may have good-naturedly trolled fans with a fake Mortal Kombat 12 leak.

Dark Horse Comics forms a new games division, wants to make AAA video games based on key IPs like Hellboy, Sin City, and more.

Bethesda's new singleplayer space epic Starfield may release in Q1 2022 on Xbox and PC, possibly during the iconic 2/22/22.

Starfield is likely to skip PlayStation consoles and exclusively release on Xbox consoles, Windows 10 PCs and Game Pass sub.

Remedy is working on two games with Epic Games, and reports say a big-budget AAA Alan Wake 2 and a smaller title are in dev.

Social platform Discord is reportedly looking to sell the company in a buyout deal that could be worth as much as $10 billion.

Microsoft and Bethesda will reportedly outline future plans in a presentation this Thursday, may include next-gen upgrades & more.

Leaked Elden Ring footage is popping up on the net, showing open-world gameplay that looks like FromSoft's own Witcher 3.

Intel's new RealSense ID will cost $99 and launch in Q1 2021 with built-in anti-spoofing technology protecting your data.

CES 2021 begins on January 11, 2021 and will be virtual only with an expected 150,000 virtual visitors and 1000 exhibitors.

BioWare's upcoming Mass Effect Legendary Edition trilogy remaster has been rated by the Korean games board, announcement incoming?

BioWare's upcoming Mass Effect Legendary Edition trilogy remaster has been delayed to next year due to issues with the first game.

Under Activision, Blizzard isn't Blizzard any more, so now a bunch of Blizz vets team up with ex-CEO to make their own studio.

Anonymous developers unanimously praise the PS5's uncomplicated and easy-to-use software tools, APIs, and dev architectures.

Treyarch confirms massive optimizations for Black Ops Cold War on PS5 and Xbox SX, including 4K 120FPS, fast loading, and more.

Apex Legends will soon join Fortnite in the land of crossplay battle royale goodness.

Developers continue to praise Sony's next-gen PS5 console behind the scenes.

Sony plans to hold two PS5 events: A game-focused stream in June, and a bit State of Play event in August.

Call of Duty dev Sledgehammer Games is expanding its workforce by 100 devs.

BioWare's next game isn't Dragon Age 4 or Anthem 2.0, but something we've wanted for a long, long time now.

New Messenger users will now be forced into signing up to Facebook to use the messaging service.

Interest in Stadia? Definitely get an unlimited data plan.

AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su confirms next-gen Ryzen 4000 series CPUs for early 2020.

Sony won't beat Microsoft so easily this time around, ex-Sony boss Jack Tretton says.

Blizzard now sees the Switch as a viable platform, and we should expect more ports.

Huawei is reportedly working on the first 5G-capable 8K television, would best Samsung and Apple instantly.

Surprise: it's all about money.

Both Amazon and Comcast are interesting in buying Nexon, likely to spark up powerful game divisions.

Visceral Games had made lots of progress on its Star Wars game before EA killed it.

Crackdown 3's new 'Wrecking Zone' PvP areas will be powered by cloud tech that provides the power of 12 x Xbox One consoles.

NetEase buys stake in Quantic Dream to help fulfill its multi-platform vision.

VLC Media Player has passed 3 billion downloads, possible plans to bring the program to the PS4 and Nintendo Switch.

Just as we predicted, BioWare's next Dragon Age game won't be released for a while.

Jade Raymond leaves EA Motive following an executive shake-up.

Battlefield V may have episodic singleplayer missions just like Battlefield 1.

Treyarch throwing single-player out of COD: Black Ops 4 has the Battlefield V team celebrating.

Battlefield V will reportedly continue Battlefield I's cadence and beat, but with a few changes.

EA and DICE reportedly working on Battlefield V, once again based during WWII.