February 2025

First reported by Ars Technica, a team of Diablo speedrun enthusiasts have decisively proven that a three minute any% world record that has stood since 2009 was faked. The effort required reverse-engineering Diablo’s map generation system, which has 2.2 billion possible legitimate outputs. The offending speedrun was uploaded to Speed Demos Archive by Maciej “groobo”…

As reported by IGN, former EA chief creative officer Bing Gordon revealed on a recent Grit podcast appearance that the company had turned down opportunities to own Call of Duty and Guitar Hero, and even acquire Blizzard. Gordon was speaking to former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, whose company wound up capitalizing on all of those…

As reported by VGC, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is nearing two million units sold across all platforms just under two weeks after it hit one million on its launch day alone. This has apparently “reminded” developer Warhorse’s parent company, The Embracer Group, that selling good games that people like and want to buy is an…

Speaking with GamesRadar, Monster Hunter Wilds producer Ryozo Tsujimoto talked about Capcom’s evolving stance toward PC gamers, and some of what it took to make Monster Hunter Wilds a simultaneous launch on all platforms with crossplay. “There are more players than ever on PC, including in Japan,” Tsujimoto said in response to a question about…

Awoken from a long hibernation, you find the pond abandoned and ruined. Through genetic manipulation of local frogs and plants you must restore your world, solving puzzles across frog generations in order to meet odd little goals—a bit of mad science experimentation along the way is encouraged. It’s not Bloodborne, it’s Mudborne, which is set…

Wanna play an action platformer about a badass ninja named Joe Musashi? Streets of Rage 4 developer Lizardcube is reviving the much-loved and much-hated Shinobi series this year, as announced by Sega at Sony’s recent State of Play. The return of the famous ninja action series will happen this year, on August 29. 2D action…

Lately, I’ve started rewatching old terrestrial TV shows at times of particularly high stress or workload, when my brain is simply too frazzled to risk being disappointed by something new. Last year it was the archaeology show Time Team. This year it’s Robot Wars, the competitive robot battling show that ran on the BBC and,…

Staggering onto Steam, veins bulging, sweat dripping from its elbows, GSC Game World has dropped a vast, humongous, really quite substantial update for Stalker 2. Delivering a whopping 1,700 fixes to its open world survival shooter, patch 1.2 is so gargantuan that the Steam update doesn’t actually list the entire changelog. Described simply as “a…