Among the myriad scourges that make playing games in 2024 so tiresome, the need for multiple different accounts to various services ranks high. Helldivers 2 players have just been told by Sony that come next week, they’ll have to link their Steam account with a PlayStation
Minecraft has unleashed armadillos into the mix, and here's everything you need to know about them.
The latest data indicates DEI policies aren't being adequately enforced and suggests crediting practices need formalizing.
As a lesson in and reminder of what's philosophically important to my studios' games, inspirational posters have been a useful tool. This post features some 'here's what's important to me' concepts and asks you to come up with your own.
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"Does anyone want a go? Just me? I'll put it back in the box"
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Imperfectly balanced, as all things should be.
Revolution Software co-founder Charles Cecil explains how the studio ditched '90s design conventions to reinvent Broken Sword for modern audiences.
Maybe keep that one for 'Celebrating the next 55 years of AMD innovation.'
Human or Not is a gamified Turing test.
I'm sure this'll go down smooth.
What, exactly, is an AI PC?
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A friend of mine owns a pickup truck, would that do?
A lightweight wired gaming mouse with zero drag and a superb polling rate, but a price that doesn't quite sit right.
Yuzu's code is out there for good, but Nintendo can certainly make it harder to develop.
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The one thing Morrowind was missing.
After multiple delays, Ubisoft's free-to-play shooter is ready to go.
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As if the big rework to items wasn't enough.
Starfield , Bethesda’s large open-world space RPG released last year, is set to receive a big new update later this month. One of the big features being added is 3D surface and city maps, something the game has needed since its launch. But these new maps also reveal that
The extra development time will enable developers to "ensure we deliver a well-functioning game."
Arrowhead is changing the Helldivers 2 galaxy before our eyes.
Hero of the universe Gordon Freeman? Not this time. In Abiotic Factor, you're one of the lab-coat-wearing nerds in the background.
Hero of the universe Gordon Freeman? No, you're just one of the lab-coat-wearing nerds in the background.
All signs point to this being the monster expansion of my dreams.
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While recent big-budget, $60+ games like Suicide Squad and Immortals of Aveum seem unable to find success, many smaller and weirder titles are exploding on Steam and developing large communities around them. Games like Helldivers 2 , Palworld, Lethal Company, and Sons of the
No, I don't know what any of that means, but it's live now on Steam.
Another Crab’s Treasure is a bright and wonderfully challenging soulslike that’s out now. In it, you can learn multiple techniques that make combat a touch easier, and some of these are super moves called Adaptations. While you’ll collect most of the game’s Adaptations by
Months after it shutdown the popular Switch emulator Yuzu over copyright infringement and piracy concerns, Nintendo has initiated a mass takedown of related backups and apparent clones on the Microsoft-owned platform Github. Over 8,000 repositories were removed as the Zelda
"Literally shocks Helldivers back into action."
We're finally getting our hands on Tiny Glade, at least for a tiny while.
To inspire moral reflection, we as game designers have to go against players' inherent instinct to make strategic decisions and break a few fundamental game design principles along the way.
Are you playing Another Crab’s Treasure and wondering which shell is the best one? They all have their utilities , so there isn’t a one-size-fits-all shell, but Another Crab’s Treasure does have one that comes pretty damn close, and you can unlock it relatively early on if you
In celebration of the seminal sci-fi horror movie Alien ’s 45th anniversary, Ridley Scott’s film is back in movie theaters. I saw it over the weekend, and even though it’s a movie I’ve seen countless times—on a laptop, on a plane, on TV—but this was my first time seeing it on
Players were excited at the prospect that Redfall might combine the fun co-op loot mechanics of a Borderlands with the bespoke environmental storytelling of a Dishonored. Ultimately, though, the day-one Game Pass blockbuster didn’t quite accomplish either of these things , and
Despite promises from Private Division, the Kerbal community is worried that KSP2 has been abandoned.
Stepping into the world of game programming can be daunting. This article explains the basics of game programming, as well as what tools and resources you can use to get started.
Amazon Prime has announced its free games for May, revealing that Fallout 3 (and all of its DLC) will be one of the PC games subscribers can grab at no additional cost later this month. Read more...
