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Neon Giant, the studio behind The Ascent, has finally given us our first proper look at NO LAW gameplay, and I’m already intrigued. The first-person cyber-noir shooter is set in the lawless port city of Port Desire, where you play veteran Grey Harker and can apparently approach problems with stealth, shooting, hacking and a healthy disregard for other people’s property. The game is coming to PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. It’s giving Cyberpunk, Thief and Deus Ex — and I’m not complaining The new footage makes the game’s influences pretty obvious. Cyberpunk 2077 is the most immediate comparison, from…

We got a good new look at Ontos in today’s Opening Night Live presentation. The new game from Frictional, the makers of Amnesia and Soma, seems to follow in suit with some of the disturbing psychological horror that helped define its earlier projects. Actor Stellan Skarsgård helps lead the voice cast in the game, which sees an engineer exploring an abandoned hotel on the moon. The game focuses on puzzles and moral narrative choices that shape the game’s outcome.In the newly revealed gameplay sequence, players encounter a horrifying experiment in which a human’s mind has been uploaded onto a server made…

Fantasy games have given us plenty of medieval Europe, Norse mythology, and Japanese-inspired worlds. 1001 Threads of Mizan is taking a rather different route. MBC Game Studio’s debut action game draws heavily from Arabic folklore and One Thousand and One Nights, wrapping that inspiration around a gorgeous-looking fantasy world. And honestly, after seeing what the game is going for, I’m quite happy to see someone finally explore this side of fantasy at this scale. This is Arabic folklore with a serious visual upgrade The game’s world is packed with deserts, fantastical architecture, mythical creatures and enormous bosses, but it’s the…

Exodus, the debut game from Archetype Entertainment, is officially dropping on April 7, 2027, according to a new trailer. This new information comes courtesy of Gamescom’s Opening Night Live stream, one of the year’s three Geoff Keighley-hosted showcases of new trailers and reveals from the video game industry. Exodus was first revealed at The Game Awards in 2023, so it’s fitting that Keighley would reveal the game’s release date a few years later. You can check the trailer out for yourself right here. The new trailer mostly focuses on Salt, one of Exodus’ crew of companions. She’s an awakened octopus (meaning…

After what feels like an eternity of trailers, teases, and people trying to figure out exactly what Ananta will be, we finally have a date. The open-world urban action RPG now has an official January 15, 2027, global release date, and developer Naked Rain dropped a new story trailer that gives us another look at its ambitious world. Two cities, one very busy protagonist The new trailer expands Ananta’s world beyond Nova City, introducing Chongxiao’s Lingyun City as the game’s second major location. While Nova City is the sprawling urban playground we’ve seen before, Chongxiao offers a distinctly different setting…

The Pikmin-inspired platformer Tinykin was my favorite surprise of 2022, and I’ve eagerly awaited the next project from its developer, Splashteam. My wait came to an end in April when I attended an event hosted by publisher Dotemu in Paris, France, where I not only learned what Splashteam is cooking up next, but also played what is decidedly not Tinykin 2.Acornia: Mirror Worlds shares the same visual aesthetic as Tinykin; it places beautiful, personality-filled 2D characters in a fully 3D world. The game also retains the “little person, big world” design, as it is set inside a snowglobe sitting in…

Xbox’s handheld ambitions are getting more expensive – much more expensive. After already pushing into premium territory with the ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X, Microsoft and Asus are preparing another version that could make even the PlayStation 5 Pro look like a relative bargain. According to an X post from Asus, the new ROG Xbox Ally X20 Anniversary Bundle will launch in October for $2,499. The limited-edition handheld marks 20 years of the ROG brand and combines upgraded hardware with a distinctive anniversary design. Still, the asking price puts it in a category far beyond the usual portable gaming…

Every time you ask ChatGPT a question, a chip somewhere is racing to send back an answer. OpenAI just shared fresh benchmark results claiming its custom Jalapeño chip, co-developed with Broadcom, does that job significantly faster and more efficiently than rival chips in the market right now. We’ve designed and built our first AI chip: Jalapeño.Designed from the ground up by OpenAI and brought to production with @Broadcom, Jalapeño is purpose-built for the LLM workloads powering ChatGPT, Codex, the API, and future agentic products.Chips are foundational to the AI… pic.twitter.com/mHU7DaMMTi— OpenAI (@OpenAI) June 24, 2026 How much faster is Jalapeno,…

In the upcoming issue of Game Informer magazine (subscribe here), we have a feature about the finale of the Talos Principle trilogy, The Talos Principle III. We got feedback from creative director Davor Hunski about what to expect in the final entry in the series, but we also spoke with writers and narrative designers Jonas Kyratzes and Verena Kyratzes, who had many thoughts on AI, both the fictional general intelligence kind and the modern generative AI kind.Since the original Talos Principle in 2014, the series has thoughtfully considered the nature of what it means to have consciousness, to be a…

Apple has quietly refreshed its Magic Keyboard lineup, and if you look closely, you’ll notice something different about the keys. Nope, it’s not a redesign. It’s just new labels. What exactly changed on the new Magic Keyboard? On the updated keyboards, keys like Tab, Caps Lock, Shift, Return, and Delete now show glyphs instead of text. If you look at the full-size models with a numeric keypad, the change goes even further. Keys like Home, Page Up, Page Down, End, Clear, and Enter also ditch their text for symbols now. Apple has updated four models, including the standard Magic Keyboard,…