From his infamously deadpan moon wizard line in the beta onward, the casting of Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones, The Station Agent) as your robot companion in Destiny has been fraught. Developer Bungie has definitely taken note of your complaints, and starting with the upcoming third expansion, The Taken King, the role of your robotic guide Ghost is being taken over by video game voice-acting mainstay Nolan North.
More than simply taking over the role for new content, North is actually going back and rerecording all of Dinklage’s dialogue from the original game, so the Dinklebot will truly be no more. The script will remain otherwise unchanged. The rerecording was done with the aim of creating a consistent experience for new players from start to finish. “We wanted Nolan North’s version of the Ghost to wake you up at the start of the journey at Level 1 and follow you all the way to Level 40,” explained creative director Luke Smith to Game Informer.
North is a veteran of video game voice acting. You may remember him from such roles as Nathan Drake in the Uncharted series, Desmond Miles in the Assassin’s Creed series, and the Black Hand of Sauron in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. In recent years he seems to be in a competition with fellow actor Troy Baker for the title of gaming’s de facto leading man.
“I was really excited to do this role,” North told Game Informer. “You want to give him as much personality as the world will allow, without making it unbelievable. There’s a fine line to walk there, and I think we found it.” Giving Ghost personality while still capturing its artificial nature is a fine line to walk, and one which many feel Peter Dinklage’s performance failed to achieve. By scrapping it, North was given free reign to find the character for himself.
“They really wanted me to put my stamp on it. They let me bring what I wanted to the role. You have to give it your own spin. For that reason, I specifically said I didn’t want to hear anything that someone else had done, so that I didn’t have some preconceived notion of what it has to be. Instead, I just gave it my stamp, and let them direct me accordingly.”
While Ghost has been conspicuously absent from recent expansion content, the tiny flying robot will have a much more prominent role in the story of The Taken King. North is optimistic that he and Ghost will remain with Destiny for some time: “I’m hoping we’re doing this for years. If I get a chance to continue with the role, I think we can evolve Ghost as we move forward over the years. In the same way that the player learns about the game and the world, maybe the Ghost grows with them.”
Farewell, Dinklebot. We always thought you were truly amazing.
Imagine tapping a Zelda icon on your iPhone and jumping straight into Hyrule. A new open-source project called nxnative makes that possible by repackaging Switch games you’ve bought into apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with no emulator in the middle.
Why does this run so well on Apple devices?
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.”