So it turns out that all-star-caliber athletic talent in a particular sport doesn’t translate to video game success in simulations of that sport. Who knew?!
The dirty truth spilled out when NBA all-stars Kevin Durant, James Harden, Steph Curry, and Anthony Davis sat down on August 19 to chat with sportscaster Ernie Johnson about professional sports, pop culture, and yes, even video games. It was all part of 2K Sports’ NBA 2K15 Uncensored event, meant to hype fans up for both the coming NBA season and the October 7 release of developer Visual Concepts’ NBA 2K15.
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“When you’re playing the game, who do you enjoy being the [most]?” Johnson asked. “Like, when you play, do you go, ‘I want to be Steph Curry because I want to shoot like Steph tonight’?”
Durant’s deadpan response led to a round of agreement, even from Curry himself. “The crazy thing is, I can’t shoot with Steph. I can’t play well… he’s terrible in the game.”
Even better? Curry agreed! “I can’t even figure out my own jump [shot],” he said.
Imagine for a second how that feels. You’re Steph Curry. You just picked up NBA 2K15 and you’ve fired up an exhibition match pitting your own Golden State Warriors against the L.A. Lakers. Virtual Steph Curry gets the ball in the final seconds of a close game… and real-life Steph Curry fumbles the controls, resulting in a loss.
That’s got to be a pretty low moment, right? It’s the kind of thing you repress and don’t talk about until you’re in a shrink’s office 20 years later.
The Call of Duty franchise has held a special place in my heart ever since I played my first Black Ops game back in 2010. That game's campaign was something else, with twists and turns that culminated in a mind-blowing finale. We can all admit that compared to those older campaigns, the recent CODs have been lackluster at best, and a complete and utter disappointment at worst. The reboot of Modern Warfare did give me some hope, as the first two installments were actually quite good, but the third game left such a bad taste in my mouth that I wasn’t exactly expecting much from Modern Warfare 4.
After recently finishing the campaign, I can say that this installment is nothing like the recent releases and instead feels closer to the franchise’s roots. For the first time in a long while, the campaign comes across as well-crafted rather than rushed to hit a release date. It arrives three years after MW3, and you can see exactly where all that time went. It seems the studio finally made listening to player feedback a priority.
Epic Games has just announced the 2026 Epic AI MegaJam, which is looking to see how much game development can be squeezed into a very short window. This is running from November 12 through November 15.
Participants can work alone or in teams of up to five people, build in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and bring along “as many AI agents as you want.” Epic explicitly encourages coding agents, AI-generated assets, audio tools, writing tools, and other AI systems. The official event page literally says "Vibe your way to $50k.”
It’s turning into a pretty good time to be a Monster Hunter fan who plays on a phone. Capcom has confirmed that Monster Hunter Outlanders will launch on Android and iOS on October 29, giving the series a new mobile-first game just as Monster Hunter Rise is also preparing to make the jump to smartphones through Netflix.
Outlanders is being developed by Tencent subsidiary TiMi Studio Group under license and supervision from Capcom. Unlike Rise, which appears to be the full console and PC game adapted for mobile, Outlanders is a free-to-play survival hunting game made specifically for phones.