100th Show Aftermath
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It gives me great nerdly joy that the Next Fest demo on Steam’s 100 most-played games list is a shopkeeping sim
As the sicko cartoon goes: “YES… HA HA HA… YES!” That’s how I feel while peering at Steam’s 100 most-played games list and spotting the Next Fest demo for shopkeeping sim Probably Stolen. A singleplayer game about sitting behind a desk and managing inventory doing that well among the other 8,000+ demos that have arrived…
Everyone gets a free ticket to World of Warcraft: Forever today as Blizzard stress tests the servers ahead of launch day
In anticipation of the full launch of World of Warcraft: Forever next month, Blizzard is throwing the gates wide open on the throwback MMO to stress test the servers. Anyone with a World of Warcraft account will be able to play the ‘WoW: Forever – Stress Test” client in the Battle.net launcher later today. You…
With BioWare dead, EA lays out its ‘next chapter,’ and it’s pretty much as predicted: Guns and football are fine, and everything else is under the microscope
Following the shocking closure of legendary RPG studio BioWare, Electronic Arts has posted a lengthy missive laying out its plans for “EA’s next chapter,” which sounds very much like cuts almost across the board. I’ll spare you the corporate gobbledygook about challenging assumptions, confronting assumptions, and imagining new possibilities, and cut straight to the chase:…
Cloud Playtime Now Available to Test with XBOX Insiders
Starting today, XBOX Insiders* can try a new way to stream games by purchasing cloud playtime without a Game Pass subscription. This preview gives XBOX Insiders who do not have an active Game Pass subscription an early look at the new option before it rolls out more broadly in November. During the preview, XBOX Insiders…
RIP BioWare: EA has shut down the legendary RPG developer
BioWare is closing, and the next Mass Effect game is cancelled. The legendary RPG studio was responsible for the original Baldur’s Gate games and, most recently, the Dragon Age and Mass Effect series. The studio was founded in 1995. https://t.co/TicSujMWpsOctober 21, 2026 “What generations of BioWare built together is something to celebrate and remember,” said…
Once Human’s Isles of Abyss expansion launches on PS5 tomorrow
Hey everyone, we have huge news to share with you today. Once Human’s largest free expansion yet, Isles of Abyss, is officially launching tomorrow, October 22 （October 21) on PlayStation 5. We’ve taken the strange worlds survival you know and love, and plunged it into uncharted waters. Starting tomorrow, you can leave the safety of…
Thirty Years of Lara Croft
Few people are better positioned to reflect on three decades of Lara Croft than Meagan Marie. A longtime member of the Tomb Raider team at Crystal Dynamics, author of 20 Years of Tomb Raider, and a fan who has cosplayed the character more than a dozen times, she has spent her career at the intersection…
Nearly $1 million worth of PSA-graded Pokémon and other TCG have been stolen right outside PSA’s headquarters
I don’t send my Pokémon cards off to PSA to get graded. I’m too emotionally attached to my cards to ever sell them, so paying the hefty fee for grading doesn’t really make sense for me, plus I’m a naturally anxious person. So when I heard the latest news of almost $1 million worth of…
GOG taken offline for maintenance in wake of PHP security emergency
The reveal of critical vulnerabilities affecting the PHP scripting language used in web development have led a number of major websites and services to go offline today as a precaution while they apply security fixes. DRM-free game store GOG announced at 8 am Pacific that its site and launcher, GOG Galaxy, would be offline for…
US government leaks the best GTA 6 promo yet: Pißwasser is real
Now this is a marketing campaign I can get behind: It looks very much like Rockstar is teaming up with Florida-based brewery Tripping Animals Brewing to bring a trio of Grand Theft Auto 6-themed beers into the real world. That’s right—Pißwasser is finally real. The discovery was made by Grand Theft Auto site GTAVice.net, which…
