January 2025

Speaking as someone with a pathological fascination with procedural simulations, following the development of Streets of Fortuna feels like watching as my time and attention are steadily pulled toward the event horizon of a distant black hole. Considering it’s coming from Kitfox Games, who we can thank for ushering Caves of Qud out of early…

One week after revealing that Dragon Age: The Veilguard significantly underperformed by missing its sales expectations by nearly 50%, Electronic Arts has announced that “many” of the studio’s employees have been moved to other EA teams as part of an effort to make the company—you guessed it—”more agile.” “Now that Dragon Age: The Veilguard has…

OpenAI, the company behind the internet-scraping ChatGPT large language model (LLM), has complained that the new Chinese AI assistant DeepSeek has been copying its models. The emergence of DeepSeek, an AI LLM that was apparently developed at a fraction of the cost of other models but boasts comparable performance, has sent shares in AI-focused tech…

There aren’t enough stylish action games like Ninja Gaiden in the world. Nothing draws me in as instantly as a great one: I relish struggling through punishing combat in games that give me the tools to move and battle in a way that’s typically reserved for flashy cutscenes, and demand I use them or die….

The RTX 50-series is now so close it’s practically knocking on the door, with the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 being available to purchase around the world tomorrow, January 30, 2025. We’ve already seen dazzling performance from its bigger sibling, but we’ve now also tried out the lesser-but-still-mighty RTX 5080 to see what it’s capable…

You’re probably familiar with the concept of the carrot and the stick. It’s a metaphor for incentivization: You reward people who do what you want them to, and put a whoopin’ on people who don’t. Sony, having tried the stick to convince PC gamers to sign up for PlayStation Network accounts to access their games…