The near future plans of many game studios depend on whether or not Grand Theft Auto 6 actually releases this year, and making the wrong guess could be disastrous for some of them, says Ben Porter, director of consulting at games industry intelligence firm Newzoo.

“If you’re a game company who’s holding its breath waiting for GTA 6 to get out, and then it gets delayed by three, four, five, six months, what do you do?” said Porter in an interview with PC Gamer at GDC 2025 this week. “You either have to be able to launch into that big black hole that’s been left open now, or you have to extend your run rate by an additional six months—I’m certain some companies are going to tank as a result of that, right?”



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In the wake of tariffs set by the Trump administration and new factories in the US from world-leading chip foundry TSMC, Nvidia’s CEO says it aims to produce “several hundred billion” dollars worth of electronics in the US in the next four years. That means there’s a growing chance your next GPU will be made in America.

According to a Financial Times interview with Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia will “procure, over the course of the next four years, probably half a trillion dollars worth of electronics in total”. Of that total sum, Huang says “We can easily see ourselves manufacturing several hundred billion of it here in the US.”



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March 2025 | GOG PRESERVATION PROGRAM additions – YouTube March 2025 | GOG PRESERVATION PROGRAM additions - YouTube
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Silent Hill 4: The Room may not be my favorite Silent Hill, but it’s far from the worst and it occupies an important place in the series—it’s the last one Team Silent worked on. So it’s always been a shame the PC version is incomplete, missing stuff that was in the PlayStation 2 version.

Until now, that is. As part of GOG’s Preservation Program, the version of Silent Hill 4 that it’s selling has been updated to include all those missing bits.



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System Shock 2 Remaster Release Date Trailer – Future Games Show Spring Showcase 2025 – YouTube System Shock 2 Remaster Release Date Trailer - Future Games Show Spring Showcase 2025 - YouTube
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Here’s my confession: I think I prefer System Shock 2 to Deus Ex. Not that I don’t love JC Denton like a son, mind you, it’s just that SS2’s creepy hallways and pitch-perfect antagonists have taken root in my heart forever.

So I gotta be honest, of all the whizzbang announcements spilling out of the Future Games Show, the one I’m most excited about is Nightdive’s KEX Engine redo—the System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster, which just got shown off during the show. It’s coming out on June 26 this year on Steam and GOG, a brisk six years after it was originally announced.



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Revolutionary AI: Luna the Robot Dog Learns on Its Own | AI15 – YouTube Revolutionary AI: Luna the Robot Dog Learns on Its Own | AI15 - YouTube
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Move over Spot—aka the Boston Dynamics robot dog doing things like guard Pompei—a new robot dog is in town to make us awwww in fear. Reuters reports the new dog on the block is developed by Swedish start up IntuiCell. The company claims its pup, called Luna, can learn just like a real boy, thanks to its functional digital nervous system.

Most of the robots entertaining us with handstands or traumatising us with fur suits, at the moment are trained by machine learning techniques. This usually requires a tonne of data, and relies on AI to compute through the variables and essentially work through algorithms to sort through uncountable variations and find what works. It often requires some pretraining—like Nvidia is doing for its GR00T N1—or at least a lot of parameter setting, and is a very computational way of doing things.



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For a game so insistent on letting me forge my own narrative, Inzoi makes it weirdly difficult to do so. I’m a real sucker for a meet-cute storyline, so I’ve been making my Zoi chat up a guy she met in the park, Will Stewart—he’s all artsy with pretentiously curly hair and spends his entire day painting at an easel, the exact sort of soft creative that fits the plot I’m conjuring in my head real-time.

I send my Zoi home after hours of bouncing around conversation topics with wildly varying vibes—the rise of AI, the stock prospects of the K-pop industry, my go-to pizza recipe, all perfectly normal stuff to talk to a relative stranger about—ready to continue the conversation with Will over the phone.

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Except, er, I can’t seem to call him. Or invite him round. Or even email him. He’s a total ghost, only existing within the confines of his park easel. Which he insisted on returning to between each interaction, by the way.



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World of Goo 2, sequel to the beloved 2008 physics-puzzler about building towers and bridges out of wibbly wobbly slime balls, will slop onto Steam this spring following almost a year of exclusivity on the Epic Games Store.

“ATTENTION Steam fans! We’ve been quietly readying World of Goo 2 for new platforms”, wrote developers 2DBoy and the Tomorrow Corporation on the latter’s website. “World of Goo 2 is coming to Steam in Spring 2025… so this year… and SOON!”



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However much—or little—help you need with Wednesday’s Wordle, we’ve got something here that can help. Keep things light with our general tips, or get something more specific with our clue for the March 19 (1369) puzzle. Still need more? You’ve got it. The answer to today’s Wordle is never more than a quick click or scroll away.

My first row looked like a waste of time, and my second wasn’t much better. But with so many key letters ruled out early on, and just enough hints to guide me, today’s answer arrived on the very next row. I’m quite pleased with myself for transforming what appeared to be a pile of grey letters into a quick win.

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Wordle today: A hint for Wednesday, March 19



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The latest World of Warcraft world first race, in which teams compete to finish a new Mythic raid faster than the others, has been settled: But the final boss was so anticlimactic that the winners almost surprised themselves (thanks, GR+).

The War Within’s second season started on March 4, and the race to World First focused on the Mythic tier of the Liberation of Undermine raid. The way that the WoW community splits up the World First can be a little confusing, because over the last fortnight various teams have gotten “World First” clears of parts of the raid, but in this case we’re talking about beating the whole thing and the final boss, Chrome King Gallywix.



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It’s been a while since we’ve heard much about Ark 2, the sequel to survival game Ark: Survival Evolved which was announced all the way back in 2020. We started to wonder if the Vin Diesel-powered sequel was still happening (and we aren’t the only ones), but it’s apparently still on: It just got a mention in a press release about upcoming Ark expansion Lost Colony.

Ark: Lost Colony “connects the storylines of Ark’s Extinction and Genesis expansions and leads into the events of Ark 2,” says Studio Wildcard.



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