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Yuichiro Chino/Getty ImagesCorporate boardrooms must be better coordinated and urgent when they address cybersecurity issues, as threat actors turn to artificial intelligence (AI) to improve their game. A board's primary role is to grow and safeguard the company's interests alongside its management team. With digital so integral in many organizations today, Sanjiv Misra, chairman of Clifford Capital, said cybersecurity must form part of a board's growth strategy.Also: Cybersecurity 101: Everything on how to protect…

Remedy Entertainment has shared updates on a number of projects including a potential Alan Wake 3 and the planned Max Payne remakes. Speaking alongside the release of Remedy’s 2023-2024 financial results, CEO Tero Virtala said “2023 was a challenging yet remarkable year for Remedy,” with the studio finally releasing a sequel to 2010’s Alan Wake and gaining full ownership of the Control franchise. However, the company did report operating losses of £24.4million (via VGC). Virtala added that the studio was “thrilled” with…

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Bafta has announced the nominations for the 20th Bafta games awards, which will take place in London on April 11.Leading the pack this year are Larian Studios’ Baldur’s Gate 3 with 10 nominations; Spider-Man 2 with nine; Alan Wake 2 with eight; and six apiece for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Star Wars: Jedi Survivor. Hi-Fi Rush, a colourful music-based action game from Japan’s Tango Gameworks, picked up five nominations, as did Mintrocket’s breakout hit Dave the Diver.Bafta has been celebrating video…

On Petri Alanko’s website, where the ​​Bafta-nominated Finnish musician offers his services as a composer for video games and film, the artist and performer makes a bold claim: “No deadlines missed since 1990”. If you’re a creative of any flavour, you’re likely to read that with a mixture of awe, suspicion and incredulity. Deadlines are flexible, right? Right?“It’s not a boast, it’s a service promise, more or less,” laughs Alanko. “I’m really good at scheduling my own work, but I am very careful when dealing with someone…

The nominations have been announced for this year's BAFTA Games Awards. Taking place in London's Southbank on April 11, the BAFTA Games Awards celebrates the best video games of the past year, including one award for Best British Game. Baldur's Gate 3 leads the list with ten nominations, followed by nine nominations for Marvel's Spider-Man, eight nominations for Alan Wake 2, and just six nominations for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Star Wars Jedi Survivor also receives six nominations, while the unique and…

After Alan Wake 2 launched last year with a demanding set of PC requirements, the team at Remedy Entertainment have put some work into optimizing the title so more computers will be able to run it. The new requirements are in effect now, as of Alan Wake 2's latest update 1.0.16.1.Running Alan Wake 2 on minimum settings, which will run the game on the low graphics preset at 1080p and 30fps now only require a Geforce GTX 1070, Radeon RX 5600 XT, or better card. The patch notes for the update note that the…

Remedy is lowering the official minimum system requirements for Alan Wake 2 on PC. The sequel launched in October without full support for Nvidia’s GTX 10-series of GPUs because Remedy opted for mesh shading that’s part of DirectX 12 Ultimate and not supported by GPUs like Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1070 or AMD’s RX 5600 XT.Now, Remedy has “optimized rendering for GPU’s that don’t support mesh shaders,” meaning the minimum GPU requirements now include the GeForce GTX 1070 and Radeon RX 5600 XT instead of the more powerful…

When it launched last October, Alan Wake 2 was noted as a superb follow-up to its cult Xbox 360 predecessor. Visually, it was something to behold. However, being quite a graphically demanding game meant people with older hardware were left out—until now. Recently, Eurogamer was given exclusive access to an upcoming patch for Alan Wake 2 which aims to optimize the sequel for previous-gen graphics cards. Specifically, the update will put focus on making the game compatible with Nvidia GTX 10-series GPUs, powered by the…

After 13 long years, Remedy’s Alan Wake finally received a sequel, and it has been a success, managing to sell a million units by December 2023. Unlike its predecessor, Alan Wake 2 is a survival horror title with a mind-bending narrative and settings that are downright psychedelic at times. The creators of the game answered questions from fans in a Reddit AMA on February 27, and as one might expect, plenty wanted to know more about Initiation 4: We Sing. They got their answers from Nathalie Jankie, Marko Muikku, and…