Coffee Stain Studios has announced some contents of the upcoming 1.1 update for Satisfactory, the first update for the popular and genre-defining sandbox factory game since its quite successful 1.0 release last year. It’s a doozy, combining a ton of quality-of-life and design features that players have been modding in on their own since Satisfactory…
Soap company Dr Squatch and Activision have released a line of soaps based on characters from the Call of Duty series of first person shooters. Characters who to be frank I cannot imagine ever being properly clean because they spend all their time rolling in gun grease and powersliding through back alleys and wearing ghillie…
Out next week. Square Enix has announced it will be releasing a two-in-one physical Switch collection for Octopath Traveler and Octopath Traveler II. According to Square Enix Asia’s Facebook page, this bundle will be made available on 2nd April 2025. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
When I spoke to Obsidian region director Berto Ritger about Avowed earlier this month, the conversation mostly focused on the game’s excellent level design and exploration. But he also touched on how drastically Avowed’s early game changed in development. While that was probably for the best, a great Elder Scrolls gag in Avowed was originally…
The European Commission is stepping up its efforts to balance the scales in big tech with two new interoperability requirements that may force Apple to finally open the gates of its walled garden. On March 18, the European Commission announced two new decisions regarding its Digital Markets Act (DMA), which is designed to make the…
In a March 29 appearance on left wing streamer Hasan Piker‘s Twitch channel, Elon Musk’s estranged daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson, offered her opinion on Musk’s prior claims of world-class performance in Diablo 4 and Path of Exile 2. Musk has since admitted to paid account boosting in both games. “When I was 12, he was…
I can’t quite put my finger on it, but something has been missing from Monster Hunter Wilds’ kaiju-carving action—in fact, that’s exactly it: I can’t whip out a cartoonishly large and stomach-turningly realistic finger and poke the monsters to death with it. As always, mods take a woefully unfinished game to the finish line. The…
SAG-AFTRA is making a move to support student game developers amidst its ongoing strike with a new exception that will allow striking video game actors to work on student projects and game jams. On Friday, SAG-AFTRA announced the Student Interactive Waiver Agreement and the Game Jam Waiver Agreement, which open the door for actors who…
Less than a year after releasing its acclaimed Riven remake, Cyan Worlds announced last week that twelve of its employees were laid off in a statement on Bluesky. That represents around half of the studio according to the statement, which adds: “We are having to weigh the future health of our studio against the month-to-month…
Amanita Design, the Czech studio best known for Machinarium and the Samorost trilogy, is currently offering up to 85% off all its games, with money from all sales going to humanitarian aid in Ukraine. “From March 26 to April 2, we’re donating 100% of the proceeds from all our games and DLC to People in…