A Difficult Game About Climbing

One of the new creative directors at Kingdom Come studio Warhorse, Prokop Jirsa, has commented on the hot-button issue of using artificial intelligence in game development. His comments come at a time when Warhorse was accused a firing a translator to help save costs.Jirsa told PC Gamer that he understands why people hate when art is generated with AI, and that's because he hates it, too. While using AI to generate art that would be released to the public is not something Jirsa is interested in, he said the technology can be "really helpful" during development in other ways. That includes AI-a

The Xbox team is continuing its mission to win back fans by implementing some tiny but noteworthy additions and improvements to the Xbox Series X|S interface--and some in the Xbox Insider program can check them out starting today.Last week, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma shared the console's new bootup animation, which select Xbox Insiders can now witness for themselves at startup. The animation emphasizes the Xbox signature color of green a lot more, though the sound is similar to what users are accustomed to.Enthusiastic achievement hunters might enjoy some new vanity badges that will show up on their

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If you’re in the market for a new handset, it’s sometimes hard to judge whether the latest iteration is worthy of the upgrade. If gaming’s a big part of how you use your phone, the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra offers a number of tangible improvements over the previous iteration (S25 Ultra) that can offer real world Quality of Life improvements. Let’s take a look at five of the key ones.01: ProcessorThe Galaxy S26 Ultra has a customised version of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy mobile chipset. At a glance, that might not sound that different, but that “Gen 5” is doing a surprising amount o

For a long time, the common wisdom was that game consoles would usurp PC gaming, leaving it a niche hobby, ignored by the greater gaming community. And indeed, for a long time consoles were the most popular way to play mainstream games. But recently, especially since the release of the current generation of consoles, the very opposite seems to be coming true. PC gaming has been expanding while consoles falter.Looking forward to the next Xbox and PlayStation consoles, analysts are predicting $900 as the low end of possible pricing--and that number is seeming more and more optimistic. That's a l