In what one might say is a remarkable example of understatement, Warner Bros. Discovery said in a letter to shareholders that 2024 was “a disappointing year” for its games business, which suffered a 53% decrease in revenue compared to 2023. Despite that big hit, Warner has high hopes for 2025 thanks to its recent restructuring,…
I’m not really a big fan of survival games, but occasionally one will grab me. Subnautica is probably the best example—I went into it with modest expectations and it quickly became one of the most compelling games I’d played in years. I have my fingers crossed for a similar experience with The Last Caretaker, an…
From the release of SpaceChem in 2011 through to Last Call BBS in 2022, indie developer Zachtronics was a legend in the admittedly small world of puzzle games that are a bit like programming a computer. While the studio made a variety of games, including a prescient visual novel about AI called Eliza, its specialty…
When a trailer for Midnight Murder Club, a lights-out multiplayer party shooter, aired at The Game Awards last December, I clocked the developer logo immediately. It was Velan Studios, the folks behind the dodgeball brawler Knockout City. That game was excellent, but like so many live service games that cultivate a modest audience, it died…
Have you seen the video of the guy who, as Reddit put it, “got folded by an elephant” that’s been going around Instagram? If so, well, whoops, that wasn’t supposed to happen: Meta says an unexpected deluge of blood, guts, animal abuse, and dead bodies that recently turned Instagram feeds into a gory horror show…
As I write this on Friday, more than 1.3 million people are actively playing Monster Hunter Wilds on Steam. So far only around 13,000—or 1%—have stopped playing long enough to review it, but those who have are largely frustrated. Steam reviews sit at a disappointed “mixed,” largely citing performance issues as the reason. And I…
Terminator 2: Judgement Day is the single greatest Hollywood blockbuster of all time. I don’t care about box office receipts or any other criteria other than the fact that this is the most beautifully-paced and spectacular action movie I’ve ever seen. I’ve been watching it on repeat ever since my dad brought home the VHS…
Helldivers 2 has gone a little quiet since the end-of-year blowout that saw the game’s third enemy faction, The Illuminate, storm into the galactic war with their undemocratic mind control tricks and chicanery. The heroes kept a-diving and the fronts of the galactic war have kept a-shifting until yesterday: When all of a sudden the…
The best thing about awards shows is that they give us an opportunity to get mad and argue when the winners are announced. PC Gamer’s Ted Litchfield, for instance, goes blind with fury every time Astro Bot wins another Game of the Year award. But in a nice change of pace, the BAFTAs are giving…
We’re now just one month away from the early access launch of Krafton’s life sim Inzoi. Its game director Hyungjun “Kjun” Kim has been pretty forthcoming about its features already, but there’s still more to come on that front. Inzoi Studio will host a global showcase on March 19, just a couple weeks ahead of…