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A New Way To Think About Tutorials

CheatCC says - "Think about games you have played that came with a “tutorial” mode. How many of you actually ended up completing it? If you are a completionist you might have, but many gamers simply look over tutorial modes and try to learn by doing. This doesn’t always work out, however, as many games, like fighting games or shooters, require a lot of skill and knowledge for competency. Anyone who has asked, “How do I block?” or “How do I throw grenades?” hasn’t played the tutorial mode. Shame on them!"

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Mobile revenue remained flat across 2025, but PC gaming "sees another record year"

Digital intelligence and analytics firm Sensor Tower has released its State of Gaming 2026 report, revealing flat growth in mobile game revenue, double-digit growth for PC and console gaming, and another record year for PC, with more games sold on Steam than ever before.

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Metacritic Removes Resident Evil 9 Review From Fake AI Writer

Kotaku writes: "A Resident Evil Requiem review published by long-standing UK gaming news site Videogamer has been removed from Metacritic after readers pointed out it was written by a fake AI journalist who doesn’t actually exist. Videogamer‘s human masthead was gutted last week, sources tell Kotaku, and the site has been publishing apparent genAI slop ever since."

1nsomniac16h ago(Edited 16h ago)

Genuinely well done on metacritic for taking such an immediate hard stance. Not often, if at all, you see that these days. Credit where it’s due.

Eonjay15h ago(Edited 14h ago)

This is really sad on so many levels. Not least of all the fact that all the human lost their jobs to a language model. Can we block all content coming from Videogamer site. Can we make a rule that content sumitted to N4G must be greated by a human being.

I'm gonna report every Videogamer article I see on N4G from now on so just putting it out there.

Christopher13h ago

N4G doesn't allow AI-generated content. Please report as you see necessary.

Mr_cheese6h ago

Isnt videogamer one of the N4G owner run sites?

Seems to fit their MO to cut corners and push cheap dribble.

TheColbertinator13h ago

It is amazing but I'm starting to slightly miss the moron gaming press we had in the 2010s because at least they were human.

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UK ad regulator issues Enforcement Notice targeting loot boxes

Game and advertising companies have been told to 'get their houses in order' and be more transparent about the presence of loot boxes in mobile titles.

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