Bryan Ansell, photographed with his Chaos army for Warhammer Fantasy Battle 3rd edition. (Image credit: Games Workshop) The Instagram account shared by miniatures game designer Bryan Ansell and his wife Diane announced that he died at home with his family on December 30, 2023. He was 68 years old. Ansell is known as the founder…
The usual suspects. Nintendo recently shared a list via the Switch news channel featuring the system’s ‘most played’ games in Europe last year. As you might have already guessed, a lot of major first-party releases are included along with some of the biggest third-party and free-to-play titles. This includes games like Zelda, Super Mario, Fortnite,…
The Finals, the newest competitive FPS on the block, has gotten lots of praise for its gunplay and movement, but its carousel of physics objects and dynamic destruction is what truly sets it apart from the pack. Under its sweaty game modes and leaderboard chasing is the spirit and toolset of an immersive sim, and…
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Jason Newman, who is displayed on card number 2589, from the Superstars of 2016 Collection. Jason is a multiple Ridge Racer world record holder on multiple platforms including the arcade version. His love for the game keeps him busy and going for more records each day. With over 100 records…
UK police are investigating the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl in a VR metaverse, in what seems like the first criminal investigation of its kind. The chair of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, Donna Jones, told the BBC that the complaint was made in 2023 and the inquiry is ongoing. The…
A report from the Korean Economic Daily says Nexon has been slapped with a fine of ₩11.6 billion ($8.85 million) by Korea’s Fair Trade Commission for changing the drop rates of items in MapleStory and Bubble Fighter “multiple times” between the years 2010 and 2021, without telling anyone that the changes had been made. Cubes,…
It’s been a long time coming, but the big day is finally here: Daggerfall Unity, the best version of Bethesda’s nearly 30-year-old open-world RPG, has now hit version 1.0 and is “considered complete.” We all talk about Skyrim and Morrowind and Fallout 4, but I would argue that none of them were as influential as…
One of the things I really don’t get about Starfield is the whole mech situation. Mechs are everywhere. There’s a bunch of lore about mechs being used in the Colony Wars that took place decades earlier. There are mechs you can look at in factories and junkyards and museums. There was even a shot of…
On January 1, Valve ended support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, which means that users on those older versions of Microsoft’s OS will eventually not be able to use the gaming platform. “We expect the Steam client and games on these older operating systems to continue running for some time without updates after January…
In December, Twitch relaxed its rules to allow for “artistic depictions of nudity” in streams—things like “content that ‘deliberately highlighted breasts, buttocks or pelvic region,’”—as long as it was labelled as containing “sexual themes.” Two days later, following “community concern,” it chickened out and walked the changes back: “Moving forward, depictions of real or fictional…