It's a shame Gray Zone Warfare is a performance nightmare, because it fixes so many problems I have with Escape From Tarkov
Gray Zone Warfare might be a little too early access right now.
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Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy has the strongest moral arc in superhero movies
Photo: Sony Pictures With all eight live-action Spider-Man movies coming through theaters, it’s the perfect time for a comparison Continue reading…
'New Vegas is a very, very important game to us,' says mildly exasperated Todd Howard, who will never stop getting grilled about New Vegas
As for whether another Obsidian Fallout could happen, he won't say.
Dragon’s Dogma 2, One Month Later
Fans of the original Dragon’s Dogma never dreamed the wonky fantasy RPG might get a sequel. Over a decade later, Capcom delivered a successor that improved on the flaws of the first without shaving off the sharp edges that earned it a cult following to begin with. Read more...
New Funko Fusion Trailer Cramming Even More Franchises Into This Nightmare
A new trailer is here for Funko Fusion , a game that looks more and more like a fever-dream mess of giant-headed characters from popular movies and shows. The game is out this September, so get excited, because our monoculture future is getting closer and closer! Read more...
What to do about Game Engines with Rez Graham and Bryant Francis: Game Developer Podcast Ep. 42
On today's podcast, we discuss a few hot topics in game engines: including Unity's bid to rebuilt trust with developers and the case for rolling one's own tech.
Fallout 76's latest update nerfs one of its most powerful weapons, but don't worry, it buffs it too
Depending on your setup, the Cremator may now be a little bit worse, or it may be a little bit better.
Ex-Lego game devs formed a new studio to explore a completely different genre: Funko Pops
Funko Fusion will be out this fall, and features "over 60 characters" from movies like Jurassic World, Hot Fuzz, and Back to the Future.
Fallout 76’s Great Community Makes It The Next Logical Step For Fans Of The Show
If you’re anything like me, you went looking for a Fallout game to play the second you were done with watching the well-received Amazon show. Despite the fact that the ending tees up a second season that will assuredly expound on New Vegas , a settlement from a similarly titled
An Xbox Games Showcase is coming in June and it sure looks like the next Call of Duty is going to be there
This isn't the most subtle tease I've ever seen.
Priest Allegedly Spent $40,000 On Candy Crush Using Church's Credit Card
A Catholic priest in Pottstown, Pennsylvania allegedly used a church credit card to spend over $40,000 on “power-ups” in mobile games Mario Kart Tour and Candy Crush over a three-year span. Read more...
Postmortem: Go! Make Your First Game!
My Experience Developing a Game and Why You Should Too!
Beautiful upcoming Sims competitor Inzoi reveals tons of weird features like sleepwalking, custom crime rates, and relationship hard mode
Inzoi's developers have shared another deep dive video on features in the upcoming life sim.
Stellar Blade's 'Secret Request' Side Quest, Explained
There are over 30 side missions for you to accept in Stellar Blade , the new PS5-exclusive character action game from South Korean developer Shift Up, each with their own outcomes and rewards. Some are simple fetch quests, while others are multi-part affairs that see Eve
I’m Tired Of Dragging Big Boxes Around In Video Games
Over the weekend I spent a fair bit of time playing Stellar Blade, enjoying the action while doing my best to ignore the Discourse™ . But that fun was killed when the game asked me to start moving around random boxes to complete elementary school math puzzles. And not just
Call of Duty makes its return to the Xbox Showcase stage
Image: Treyarch/Raven Software/Activision The Xbox livestream on June 9 has chosen the subject of its deep dive Continue reading…
Sea of Thieves’ newest update includes 7 hilarious tools
Image: Rare / Microsoft Game Studios New ways to sail — and fight other pirates Continue reading…
5 beginner's tips for Echoes of the Plum Grove to help you survive your first season in Honeywood
Five tips to help you survive and thrive in this consequential farming sim.
Honkai: Star Rail’s Sentient Capybara Is Everything To Me
During Honkai: Star Rail ’s Cosmodessy event, players were treated to a little personality test . Over the course of the minigame you’d be asked a series of questions, and in the end, based on your answers, you’d be assigned a personality linked to a game character. But the
Do not let anyone spoil Sugar’s big twist for you
Image: Apple TV Plus But do try to guess it ahead of time Continue reading…
How to get sheep in Manor Lords
Image: Slavic Magic/Hooded Horse via Polygon Herd sheep to fertilize farmland and make yarn Continue reading…
Please, don’t pay more than $325 for a Nintendo Switch OLED
Photo: Russ Frushtick/Polygon Pick up the Switch OLED for $325 or the standard model for $275 Continue reading…
Deliver Us Mars studio lays off all staff after funding efforts fall through
KeokeN Interactive says it has "exhausted all our possible options for publishing, work for hire, and co-development."
Another Crab's Treasure ends opening weekend with 100K units sold
Little crab, big sales.
Dave & Buster's Will Soon Let You Place Bets On Arcade Games
Starting later this year, popular family entertainment restaurant chain Dave & Buster’s will offer its customers (who are 18 years or older) the ability to place “friendly wagers” on various games using the company’s app. Read more...
Five Years Ago, The First Sonic Movie Trailer Broke The Internet
Looking at the original trailer for the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie is like looking into a portal to a different timeline, one where the film itself likely doesn’t herald the arrival of a massively successful film franchise that eventually spawns a bad Paramount+
Yaoi would save a repressed Edwardian schoolboy — just ask Dead Boy Detectives
Photo: Ed Araquel/Netflix What if we evaded Death so we could stay with each other for all of eternity... and we were both boys? Continue reading…
Blizzard 'learned a lot of lessons' from having to emergency fix Diablo 4 season 3's vault dungeons, but says they'd need more work before bringing them back permanently
Vaults won't return in season 4, but Blizzard knows how much players ended up liking them.
Diablo 4 season 4 'Loot Reborn' will change almost everything you know about the action RPG
A sequel's worth of changes are coming permanently to the game next month.
Blizzard plans to make Diablo 4 boss farming better for solo players
The changes won't arrive in season 4, but they're in the works.
'The rule of cool' is Blizzard's solution to Diablo 4's barbarian problem and it's going to 'juice up the other classes' to compensate
Necromancers are first on the list.
Manor Lords dev has 'grand plans' for castle siege warfare but still thinks non-combat is 'a viable way to play'
This calls for a trebuchet.
Rise of the Ronin already outselling the Nioh series, says Koei Tecmo
Koei Tecmo claims the historical fantasy action-RPG has managed to outdo its predecessor, the two-game Nioh franchise.
Todd Howard is a good boy after all—warned his mum that the Fallout show's full of 'sex, violence, and bad words'
"I do give a mature warning to like my family."
Hey Atlus, Let Us Upgrade To Definitive Editions
The video game industry has habitually repackaged things and put them on store shelves. Remakes and remasters are one side of the conversation, but Atlus, it seems, prefers to release “enhanced editions” like Persona 5 Royal and now Shin Megami Tensei V : Vengeance. These add
Classic PC games modded with RTX Remix just received support for one of Nvidia's newest features: Ray Reconstruction
Should help deliver some slick-looking scenes, even in older titles.
This Stardew Valley-like farms while you work
Image: Mister Morris Games Super cute, idle farming simulator Continue reading…
The Fall Guy was its stunt team’s explosive dream come true
Photo: Eric Laciste/Universal Pictures ‘I’ve never been in a situation where I can go up to the director and ask him for advice on how to get hit by a car’ Continue reading…
The Art of the Spiral: Failure Cascades in Simulation Games
Exploring how failure cascades shape gameplay in simulation games like Songs of Syx and Rimworld, balancing dramatic stories with player recovery opportunities.
Deep Dive: Creating an asynchronous multiplayer in Solium Infernum
How going below the waist with above-the-table gameplay creates complexity in this turn-based strategy game.
