January 30, 2025

Just months after laying off a “significant” number of employees in the face of “unexpected challenges,” Midnight Society, the studio co-founded in 2021 by Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm, former Call of Duty creative strategist Robert Bowling, and Halo 5 multiplayer designer Quinn Delhoyo, has announced that it’s closing completely. “Today we are announcing Midnight Society…

The Elder Scrolls: Legends players are sharing commiserations online as the digital card game they’ve been playing for years has gone dark once and for all. The Elder Scrolls: Legends launched in 2017 and despite the art being a little underwhelming in places, quickly proved to be “a deep and potentially rewarding alternative to Hearthstone.”…

Keeping track of the planned features for upcoming life sim Inzoi is nearly a full-time job—for me and probably for several project managers at Krafton—because its game director just won’t stop promising more player-requested additions. Every week I nervously look at the calendar as Hyungjun “Kjun” Kim makes new lists of features coming in time…

Calvin Robinson is a far right political commentator and former games journalist who founded and still owns the gaming website God is a Geek. He was also a priest until Wednesday, when the Anglican Catholic Church revoked his status over behavior it deemed “incompatible with a priestly vocation.” On Thursday, the entire editorial staff of…

For a group on a quest to save the world, the Final Fantasy 7 crew sure knows how to take it easy. Hardly an hour goes by in Rebirth without a new minigame popping up, Cloud and co. constantly taking a break to ride dolphins or work out at the gym or play some cards….

Electronic Arts announced a downsizing of BioWare yesterday that saw “many” employees being moved to other studios within the company while “a core team” continues work on the next Mass Effect. EA declined to comment on whether the restructuring would also result in layoffs, but to absolutely no one’s surprise, it has, including some serious…

A recent video from retro tech YouTuber Clint “LGR” Basinger dives into an aspect of personal computing you probably haven’t put much thought into⁠—or at least I sure didn’t until now. After being impressed by an aquatic screensaver on a TV at a local bar, LGR did some research into the history of the SereneScreen…

It’s rare, but occasionally a bit of videogame or movie news breaks not with a well-manicured trailer or a press release emailed to a media outlet. Like, sometimes a gamer will just ask a movie star a direct question on Twitter and the movie star honestly answers. Rarely. Very rarely. But it happens. Like today,…