Before Project 007 was greenlit, the Hitman studio had to convince the James Bond rights-holders to give video game adaptations another shot: "They were not looking for a game"

Venom being Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’s main antagonist was among the bigger reasons the game generated as much excitement in the lead-up to its launch as it did, and with the game now more than a month old, it’s fair to say that the iconic villain lived up expectations. Interestingly, however, it seems only a fraction of the voice recording that voice actor Tony Todd did for Venom made it into the final game.

Alienware Aurora R16 | Core i7 13700F | RTX 4070 Ti | 16GB DDR5-5600 | 1TB SSD | $1,949.99$1,749.99 at Dell (save $200) You can score an RTX 4070 Ti PC for less than this, though usually with an older CPU than the Core i7 13700F here. This Alienware delivers a rather modern package, with a Raptor Lake processor (13th Gen, not 14th Gen, but that's fine), a big enough boot drive at 1TB, and a 1000W PSU. It's also liquid cooled and comes with two sticks of DDR5 memory.

Just when everyone thought that the OpenAI saga was done and dusted, a report brought shocking information to the surface. As per Reuters, right before Sam Altman was fired by the OpenAI board, a team of researchers in the company had sent the directors a letter warning of a powerful artificial intelligence (AI) discovery, that they said could even threaten humanity. This key breakthrough is being considered as artificial general intelligence (AGI), which is otherwise known as superintelligence.

Music streaming giant Spotify said Tuesday it will modify how it pays artists in 2024, introducing a minimum number of times a piece must be streamed before qualifying for royalties.

Dave the Diver's developer is making a zombie PvPvE game, and it's shared 22 minutes of new gameplay ahead of an alpha playtest.

Remember Rockstar’s Agent? Announced in 2007 for the PlayStation 3, it was touted as a stealth action title set during the Cold War. It would receive sporadic updates before the trademark was eventually abandoned and it was removed from the developer’s website. However, new details are available thanks to former Rockstar North technical director Obbe Vermeij, who worked from 1999 to 2009.

Eight years after its release, The Witcher 3 is finally getting mod tools. Announced on Twitter, CD Project announced that modders will finally be able to develop original creations without having to edit content or quests already in the game. The tools are set to drop sometime in 2024, but no further information is available at this time.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth will continue the FFVII remake trilogy with a more open world-like design. To that end, Naoki Hamaguchi, one of the game's directors, admitted he took inspiration from Western games like CD Projekt RED's The Witcher and Guerrilla Games' Horizon.

Sledgehammer Games' studio head, Aaron Halon, has refuted recent reports that Modern Warfare 3 had a rushed development and that the team was forced to make it instead of Advanced Warfare 2.

The failure of Hitman: Absolution meant that when Square Enix chose to divest Project 007 studio IO Interactive, some offers were as low as a single dollar.

It might be strange to recall after Hitman 3's stonking success, but series developer IO Interactive was in a very precarious situation not so long ago. When 2016's Hitman failed to please IOI's owners at Square Enix, the corporation began scrabbling around looking for someone to take the studio of its hands. 

Hitman developer IO Interactive has laid out its Winter roadmap for the World of Assassination trilogy.