Get To Know Our Team Dean Technical Program Manager February 14, 2024 Hi, everyone! Wynn here. We’re back with another Xbox Insider Team interview. Today we’ll be chatting with Dean—a Technical Program Manager, Xbox Mastercard maestro, and another all-around cat person. How’s it going, Dean? I’m doing well! Happy to be here. Glad we could…
Immortals of Aveum, a singleplayer shooter that released last year, totally flopped, and one person who worked on it reckons that “trying to make a triple-A singleplayer shooter in today’s market was a truly awful idea.” If you also subject yourself to the crucible that is social media discourse, you may have seen one or…
Sorry folks, Valve’s not announcing a new VR headset today—or at least not the Valve Prism, despite the surprise appearance of a website, valveprism.com, that very nearly looks like the real deal. The new site started making the rounds on Wednesday and on first blush very much looks like a Valve production. The page design,…
The Silent Hill 2 remake trailer that appeared during Sony’s State of Play showcase in January did not make the best possible impression. Fans on Reddit described it as “rough,” “wooden,” and “straight out of SH Homecoming, which is a PS3 game.” Among the people who didn’t care for it was, somewhat unexpectedly, Piotr Babieno,…
In Overwatch 2’s newest season, every hero shoots bigger bullets and it’s driving players mad as they watch clips of the most egregious examples. It was hard to visualize just how much Blizzard had increased the size of weapon projectiles in Overwatch 2’s newest season until a bunch of people started firing at a Tracer…
Here are some commonly held beliefs about the videogame industry that aged like milk: Xbox and PlayStation will never allow crossplay with PCPC gaming is niche, and dyingXbox will never release games on PC and console simultaneouslySony will never put PlayStation games on PCMicrosoft will never put Xbox games on PlayStation Hey, I was right…
One week after delaying Homeworld 3 until May, Blackbird Interactive has confirmed that an unspecified number of employees have been laid off from the studio. The layoffs were initially reported by multiple former Blackbird Interactive employees on LinkedIn (via Game Developer). Jacob Van Rooyen, who was working as lead producer on a new project at…
I’ve heard of opening a can of whup-ass, but 2024 has opened up a can of survival-ass. Does that even make sense? Sorry, I’ve been up late every night this week playing a survival game and I can’t really tell. We’re only in February and it’s already been a massive year for survival, first with…
As cozy online games continue to prove that not all MMOs need to be RPGs, I’m always excited to dip into a new world. Islands of Insight is the latest, a “shared-world puzzle game” of chill challenges. After a few hours with it though, I don’t think the concept gels. Islands of Insight has constructed…
Esteemed scholars of expanded universe Halo lore know that the Human Covenant war was primarily a combined arms conflict. Expertly trained UNSC special forces teams carried out near suicidal decapitation attacks on Covenant military and spiritual leadership, military infrastructure, and even wiped out entire fleets before they left drydock. The Halo games rarely actually represent…