CD Projekt said in January 2024 that AI “can help improve certain processes in game production, but not replace people,” a mushy sort of statement that’s difficult to pin down to any real stance. During today’s FY 2024 financial presentation, however, joint CEO Michał Nowakowski got a little more specific on the topic, saying the…
When you think of the best games of 2022, what springs to mind? Elden Ring. Vampire Survivors. Persona 5 Royal. Marvel’s Midnight Suns, Teardown, Card Shark, Monster Hunter Rise, the list goes on. But the list is wrong. You’re wrong. Our Game of the Year Awards were wrong. All wrong. It’s Placid Plastic Duck Simulator,…
Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. Developer: French-Bread Released: 2004 PCs: Windows 2000 and up (Image credit: French-Bread) Monster Hunter Wilds has got everyone all fired up and eager to swing swords at…
After being tossed to the curb by struggling retail chain GameStop last year, long-running gaming magazine Game Informer has been revived. Last August, the entire Game Informer staff was laid off in the middle of producing the magazine’s next issue, and years of online coverage were wiped from the web. The now nearly 34-year-old magazine,…
Palworld blew up big in 2024, becoming only the second game in Steam history to hit more than 2 million concurrent players (along with PUBG and, later that same year, Black Myth: Wukong). That kind of success put a big target on developer Pocketpair, drawing fraudulent claims of AI use and plagiarism, heaps of abuse…
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The Witcher 4 doesn’t have a release date yet, although it’s a safe assumption that it remains a long way off. The real optimists out there might be hoping that it’ll be out sometime before the end of 2026—that’s nearly two years away, after all—but I’m sorry to say that CD Projekt threw a bucket…
In Dwarf Fortress, aquifers are a scourge. They’re layers of subterranean, water-bearing rock that continually, endlessly leak when breached by dwarven miners. They can be managed and even exploited with careful construction, but in my experience, their main utility is proving that—no matter how competent at Dwarf Fortress I might get—I’m only one overlooked, unsealed…
Spend enough time running errands and beating up thugs in the Like a Dragon (née Yakuza) series, and you’ll likely be able to find your way around Tokyo’s real-life red light district, Kabukichō—that’s how close to the real thing Sega got with its fictional recreation of Kamurochō. Over some 20 years of games Sega has…
I like Pacific Drive an awful lot—87 hours into it so far, so says Steam—but there’s one thing about it that’s always kind of irritated me: The lack of a mid-run save feature. I’m hardly alone in that feeling, as a quick dig through Reddit or the Steam forums will reveal, but the good news…