Elliot Gardner

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Elliot Gardner

A standalone spin-off from FromSoftware’s incredibly successful yet mostly single-player dark role-playing game Elden Ring, the multiplayer-oriented Elden Ring Nightreign is a curious beast, often feeling like an amalgamation of several different experiences all at once.

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Elliot Gardner

Another month, another revolutionary generative AI development that will apparently fundamentally alter how an entire industry operates. This time tech giant Microsoft has created a “gameplay ideation” tool, Muse, which it calls the world’s first Wham, or World and Human Action Model. Microsoft claims that Muse will speed up the lengthy and expensive process of game development by allowing designers to play around with AI-generated gameplay videos to see what works.

Jan 20, 2025 | thestack.technology | Elliot Gardner |Ed Targett

From virtual physics engines to virtual reality, the gaming sector has long found itself the proving ground for new technologies before they see wider use. Similarly, while businesses the world over have spent the last couple of years coming to terminology like artificial intelligence and machine learning, and procedural generation, anyone with even a passive knowledge of video games has come face to face with them for decades. This post is for subscribers only

Nov 13, 2024 | theguardian.com | Elliot Gardner

In 2004, Holly Longdale was a game designer on EverQuest, then the champion of a new genre of video game that allowed for multiplayer role-playing on a huge scale. In these online fantasy worlds, players could quest together rather than alone, adding a fascinating new social – and competitive – dimension to the static, offline role-playing that Holly’s generation had grown up with. But whenever she could, Longdale would sneak in a few hours playing EverQuest’s main competitor instead.

Oct 18, 2024 | pcgamesn.com | Elliot Gardner

What is the fastest car in GTA 5? If you want to tear up the asphalt, we’ve ranked all the quickest cars and bikes by their confirmed max in-game kph. Of course, there’s more to a car than its fastest possible speed, but sometimes you just want to upgrade your vehicle to the max and see how far you can push that speedometer.