Wayne June, the famed narrator of the Darkest Dungeon games, has died. June’s passing was announced on Bluesky by Darkest Dungeon creative director Chris Bourassa, who described June as “ancestor, academic, artist, and friend.” “Twelve years ago, Tyler [Red Hook co-founder Tyler Sigman] and I reached out to Wayne, humbly asking him to narrate our…
I’m sure I don’t have to tell you if you’ve ever toggled off Steam’s sexual content filters—whether out of curiosity or otherwise is your business—but there’s a lot of porn on Steam. At time of writing, of the roughly 122,000 games on Steam, almost 6,000 are marked as Adult Only. That’s about 1 in 20,…
When you begin your career in Sniper Elite: Resistance, you can hop into almost any mode, whether it be the level-based campaign or the competitive multiplayer. The new Propaganda mode, however, is locked off, and you’re going to have to do some work to unlock it. This mode challenges you to try to kill as…
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…
For eight years, we’ve been building a world-class collection of game history materials. Now we’re turning that into a research tool that anyone can use to study video game history. The Video Game History Foundation Library is the long-term home to our collections of video game history research materials: behind-the-scenes documents, press kits, game magazines,…
Allowed access to Club Switch today. Those who enjoy a little slice of weirdness in their gaming might want to keep an eye on this one. Publisher Crunching Koalas and developer Dexai Arts have today released the first-person bouncer simulator Techno Banter on the Switch eShop and it looks… strange. This is a game all…
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….