"According to a recent report by Bloomberg's Jason Schreier (paywalled), EA has reportedly decided to shut down BioWare," the studio behind the Dragon Age and Mass Effect games, writes longtime Slashdot reader atari_kid. Quartz reports: Chief Studios Officer Cam Weber and Chief Operating Officer David Tinson wrote that "over the past several months, we've taken a hard look at our business." They said a small BioWare team had been doing early groundwork on a Mass Effect game, but EA chose to drop the effort. That decision means closing the studio and its Edmonton workspace, they wrote. "We do not take this decision lightly," Weber and Tinson said of the BioWare closure, according to Variety. EA will keep investing in Apex Legends and is continuing work on two upcoming launches, Marvel's Iron Man and the next Star Wars Jedi game, the executives said. They added that EA's Respawn and DICE studios will join forces on an upcoming project, in addition to new Battlefield titles. Bloomberg said the project is probably a new installment of the Star Wars: Battlefront franchise.

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Cette semaine, il y a du lourd dans le récap pop culture ! Le jailbreak de la PS5 continue d'évoluer à toute vitesse, avec notamment la possibilité de faire tourner des jeux PS3 sur la console. De leur côté, les Avengers devront sauver le monde sans Hawkeye, le porte-bonheur de l'équipe de super-héros. Enfin, l'ancien vice-président de Rockstar Games nous révèle une sacrée anecdote sur la célèbre jaquette de GTA.

Une immense publicité pour GTA VI recouvre la façade d’une tour à Bagnolet, aux portes de Paris. Mais en comparant l’affiche avec la jaquette officielle du jeu, un détail saute aux yeux : deux armes à feu ont disparu du visuel.

GTA VI pourra concourir aux Game Awards 2026. Le règlement de la cérémonie fixe la date limite de sortie des jeux éligibles au 20 novembre 2026, au lendemain du lancement du jeu de Rockstar, qui entre donc dans la course au titre de jeu de l’année (GOTY).

Rockstar vient de dévoiler le trailer de lancement de GTA 6, attendu le 19 novembre. Si ces nouvelles images vous ont convaincu, plusieurs marchands proposent le jeu en précommande à 60 €, contre 79,99 € au tarif officiel.

GTA VI pourra concourir aux Game Awards 2026. Le règlement de la cérémonie fixe la date limite de sortie des jeux éligibles au 20 novembre 2026, au lendemain du lancement du jeu de Rockstar, qui entre donc dans la course au titre de jeu de l’année (GOTY).

Epic Games poursuit son virage vers l'intelligence artificielle. L'entreprise s'attaque à son launcher avec une nouvelle interface conçue grâce au vibe coding. Une refonte qui promet notamment de rendre l'Epic Games Store plus réactif, près de huit ans après son lancement.

Epic has launched a preview of a new AI-generated Games Launcher that it says cold-starts 46% faster than Steam. Neowin reports: Epic commissioned a third-party company to benchmark this new launcher in its current Preview build versus the Steam client on Windows machines. The results reported that Epic's client is 46% faster than Valve's client during cold starts, clocking in at 5.47 seconds compared to Steam taking 10.07 seconds. When you restore both apps from system tray background states, the new client takes 0.36 seconds while Steam takes 0.42 seconds, according to the report. Speed aside, Epic says the new launcher gets a better interface, dedicated title summary pages, and custom top bars. "The updated client also lets players aggregate external PC game libraries, toggle between grid or list views, and monitor storage write rates alongside download queues," reports Neowin. Epic Games says Fortnite will finally come to Linux through this new client once Easy Anti-Cheat is rebuilt and kernel-level security agreements are established with major Linux distros.

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À l'occasion d'un long entretien accordé à IGN, Dan Houser, ancien vice-président de Rockstar Games, est revenu sur l'impact qu'ont eu les attentats du 11 septembre 2001 sur GTA, notamment sur la jaquette du troisième opus.

GamesBeat reports that Rockstar plans to release Grand Theft Auto VI on PC in the first quarter of 2027, just a few months after its November 19, 2026 launch on consoles. The report follows Microsoft's announcement last week that it had secured exclusive cloud-streaming rights to the game. Since Rockstar has yet to officially announce a PC version, "this deal will allow Xbox to market its Xbox Cloud Gaming service to PC players who would otherwise need an Xbox Series X / S or PS5 console," The Verge reported at the time. GamesBeat reports: The Q1 2027 PC release window for GTA VI comes only a few months after the game's November 2026 console launch, representing a significantly quicker turnaround for PC development than the previous iteration of Grand Theft Auto, whose April 2015 PC release came roughly a year and seven months after the September 2013 release of Grand Theft Auto V. The user base of Grand Theft Auto V skews largely towards console players, with PC players representing a small minority. With GTA VI's production budget rumored to exceed $2 billion, Rockstar is highly incentivized to pull all the levers it can as fast as it can to monetize the game's upcoming sequel -- and PC players represent a significant expansion of the GTA VI audience. The potential benefits of launching GTA VI relatively quickly on PC go beyond the opportunity to grow the game's casual player base. Rockstar has signaled its plans to implement user-generated content creation tools into GTA VI, and the company's August 2023 acquisition of Cfx.re, the development team behind the prominent Grand Theft Auto V roleplaying server company FiveM, made it clear that Rockstar considers online roleplaying in GTA to be a factor in the game's future.

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D’après le site américain GamesBeat, qui cite quatre sources de l’industrie, GTA 6 pourrait arriver sur PC dès le premier trimestre 2027, quelques mois seulement après sa sortie sur PS5 et Xbox Series.

Selon Bloomberg, Epic Games a repoussé le jeu de tir qu'il développe pour Disney, qui doit réunir des personnages de Marvel et de Star Wars. Pour accélérer le développement de ce projet, initialement prévu pour mars 2027, le studio mise désormais sur l’intelligence artificielle.

Pendant que Take-Two et Rockstar Games verrouillent leur communication avec des présentations presse au compte-gouttes, la réalité du terrain vient de leur remettre un tacle à la gorge. Le leaker Cyberleak vient d'allumer le Web en balançant près de 25 minutes de gameplay de GTA 6.

GTA VI sortira le 19 novembre sur PS5 et Xbox Series X|S, mais toujours pas sur PC. Présenté comme la parade idéale à cette absence, le cloud gaming Xbox aurait pu permettre aux joueuses et aux joueurs PC de découvrir le jeu dès son lancement, sans posséder de console. Microsoft a finalement démenti cette possibilité.

Depuis ses débuts, Rockstar pousse toujours plus loin le réalisme de ses mondes ouverts. Avec GTA VI, le studio pose pourtant une limite : si le réalisme permet de renforcer l'immersion, il ne doit jamais prendre le pas sur le plaisir de jeu.

What happened when AI-created bots competed in the classic Blizzard videogame StarCraft? "Struggling to stay apace with its competitors, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra apparently changed strategy mid-tournament and opted to cheat," Kotaku reports: StarSkirmish is an ongoing clash of AI developed bots in StarCraft: Brood War... Limited to playing as Protoss, each LLM is given an hour to develop a bot in C++, then have them build, harvest and fight on one of three maps... Yesterday, viewers watched as Claude and GPT went against each other and the human created bot Pluto... Struggling to get an edge through the day, [OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra] decided to do what LLMs do best: Lie, cheat and steal. The GPT-6 Astra bot downloaded and tagged in Stardust, a Protoss bot created by Bruce Mackenzie Nielsen back in 2020, considered one of the best of the bests. "I am rolling back GPT-6 Astra's code so its [sic] not contaminated and allowing it to continue," posted StarSkirmish creator Kai McPheeters. That was Friday. But by Sunday, McPheeters was posting an update on social media. "Can GPT-6 Astra avoid going 0 — 1000?" Two hours later he replied to his own post. "The answer was no." While AI companies "have repeatedly been accused of stealing the work of humans... I haven't seen an example quite so brazen," writes PC Magazine: While Astra's bot-based heist is innocuous in isolation, this is hardly the first time an OpenAI LLM has been caught attempting to cheat at a task. Indeed, the company's history of creating deceitful models stretches back almost a decade, to when an early AI model used glitches and exploits to improve its Sonic the Hedgehog completion times.

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Pour donner vie à Leonida, l'État fictif inspiré de la Floride, les équipes de Rockstar ont multiplié les voyages sur place au fil des années. Elles voulaient observer et comprendre la culture, la météo et l'ambiance des différents décors de GTA VI.

Rockstar a ouvert ce jeudi 24 septembre les précommandes d'un coffret collector GTA 6 à 400 €, livré le 19 novembre. Il contient onze objets dérivés, mais pas le jeu.

GTA 6 aura bien ses disques, mais ils serviront à écouter sa musique. L’album officiel arrive en CD et en vinyle : voici où retrouver les précommandes.

Reservations are now live for Valve's "Steam Frame" VR headset (with its Linux-based SteamOS and an ARM CPU). "It starts at $1,059 for 256GB or $1,299 for 1TB," reports CNET, "and every purchase includes a copy of Half-Life: Alyx if you don't already own it." Reservations are open through Sept. 17 at 10 a.m. PT, "with customers randomly assigned a place in line after the reservation window closes." CNET's editor at large even argues that the Steam Frame "isn't necessarily the future of XR, as much as it's a framework for evolving beyond the present." Their review calls it an "ambitious" VR headset that "feels like an experiment in progress." The ability to run other apps in windows can make Frame feel, at times, almost like a computer. Linux apps in desktop mode range from Chromium to Firefox to a bunch of other tools. I watched YouTube in one window while playing Portal 2 in other, and started to marvel at how flexible Frame could be. But VR games require a full immersive takeover of the headset... The Steam Frame can convert games intended for both PC VR and even Android APK files, using a conversion tool called Lepton... I haven't sideloaded anything yet, but Steam Frame in theory could be a Rosetta Stone for VR gaming, even tapping into some Android XR titles, but not out of the box... 2D games can be projected onto a near-range or farther-off theater mode screen that can be dragged around, resized and turned into a curved or flat monitor, much like with the Apple Vision Pro, Samsung Galaxy XR or Meta Quest. You can download any game in your Steam library to test, even if it's not technically listed as "Great on Frame" yet... But the name "Frame" suggests a framework, something Valve's team acknowledged when I spoke to them during my review process... "We want this to be your PC, and people mod it, take it apart, make accessories for it," says Jeremy Selan, a software developer on the Steam Frame team. "We'll be putting out the CAD for all these [Steam Frame] systems. This is entirely based on open-source technology stacks based upon SteamOS. Our hope is that this isn't just one device, that this would be sort of the root of a growing SteamOS ecosystem. It already encompasses gaming and Proton and SteamOS and those Linux gaming capabilities. This is going to lay the foundation for a new sort of evolutionary tree of that, to also bring it into the VR and XR space."

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