Despite AI-generated textures, audio, and music, Steam users shower hotly anticipated survival game in 11,000 95% positive reviews in just a few days

January 6, 2026 / admin / retro news

Gen AI was demonstrably not a deal-breaker in this case

2019

“Steam Charts don’t measure fun”: Splitgate dev says don’t sweat the player count after messy Splitgate Arena Reloaded rollout, sitting at 720 players on Steam

January 6, 2026 / admin / retro news

“We rebuilt Splitgate from the ground up”

2019

A week before BioWare’s worst game meets its final end, Anthem players gather to mourn what might have been: “One last flight”

January 6, 2026 / admin / retro news

It’s time to say goodbye

2019

The Last of Us star Troy Baker says “we don’t need to demonize” gen AI because it’s just going to drive people to “authentic” experiences “as opposed to the gruel that gets distilled to me through a black mirror”

January 6, 2026 / admin / retro news

“I think it’s a good thing”

2019

Marvel star Sebastian Stan may be making the jump to DC for a mystery role in The Batman 2

January 6, 2026 / admin / retro news

Winter Solider actor Sebastian Stan is reportedly in talks for a role in The Batman Part II

2019

It’s nice that Nvidia’s DLSS 4.5 is coming to all RTX GPU owners, but that isn’t the quality-of-life update I was hoping for from CES

January 6, 2026 / admin / retro news

If you were hoping for Nvidia Reflex 2 to come out of this year’s CES, the only thing you’ll be left with is DLSS 4.5 and a 6x multiplier for your frame rate.

2019