January 10, 2025

Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney had some biting words on Friday for tech executives who are fawning over US president-elect Donald Trump, accusing them of playing nice to push anti-competitive policy to the detriment of the rest of us. “After years of pretending to be Democrats, Big Tech leaders are now pretending to…

CES is an exciting event because it’s always packed with weird, wild, and often dubious tech stuff, like cyberprisons for tiny anime girls (what?), VR racing rigs that blow wind in your face (huh?), and keyboards where every key is bread (which?). Naturally, since the past year in tech has mostly been about stuffing AI…

Square Enix has announced a new “group customer harassment policy” aimed at protecting its employees and partners from harmful behavior and actions taken by its followers and fans. “Square Enix believes that the feedback, comments and requests received from our customers are essential to the advancement of our group’s products and services,” the new policy…

The Sims series is turning 25 in February, but Maxis is kicking the party off early with a Behind The Sims episode next Tuesday, January 14. The video premiere on YouTube is scheduled for 9am Pacific / 5 pm GMT. Maxis told players back in September that we could expect an event in January to…

Path of Exile 2 players grew increasingly desperate while developer Grinding Gear Games was away for the holidays, even resorting to apocryphal rites in hopes of summoning patches to address their early access woes. But for YouTuber Slipperyjim8, the interregnum provided just enough time to descend into a 16-day spite-fueled mania of data collection and…

Rasheed Abueideh, a Palestinian game developer whose previous release Liyla and The Shadows of War followed a young girl trying to survive amidst the horrors of the 2014 Gaza War, has raised more than $200,000 to support a new project called Dreams on a Pillow, “a pseudo-3D stealth adventure” based on a Palestinian folk tale…

Among many FromSoftware signatures, the Dark Souls developer’s NPCs always seem to talk, you know, like that. They’re cryptic and brittle, giving the minimum amount of information and surrendering zero context while they laugh, chuckle, or even chortle in the most unsettling way possible. Then you do a few quests, forget them for a while,…

Players are dropping out of World of Warcraft’s hardest dungeon mode in droves, and Blizzard is changing everything from class balance to dungeon mechanics to try and stop the bleeding. Public testing of the next Mythic Plus dungeon season is underway this week, with the first versions of many of those changes in play. That…

Enad Global 7 has announced that 38 employees at its Piranha Games studio will be laid off after the most recent game in its Mechwarrior series, Mechwarrior 5: Clans, “performed below expectations.” Separately, the company also announced that Toadman, whose most recent release is the 2024 shooter EvilVEvil, is being closed entirely. “The team at…

First reported by IGN, it appears that Marvel Rivals’ season one update has disabled mods in the game. Until now, there was actually a surprisingly lively scene of modders creating skins and other cosmetic additions for the NetEase hero shooter. Users in the Marvel Rivals Discord have said that the update has introduced asset hash…