Developers at Nightdive Studios will be the first to tell you no two projects are alike. Nowhere is this more true than the soon-to-be-released remaster of System Shock 2. Announced six years ago as System Shock 2: Enhanced Edition, Nightdive reannounced the project under a new name — System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster. Play…
Here’s my confession: I think I prefer System Shock 2 to Deus Ex. Not that I don’t love JC Denton like a son, mind you, it’s just that SS2’s creepy hallways and pitch-perfect antagonists have taken root in my heart forever. So I gotta be honest, of all the whizzbang announcements spilling out of the…
Earlier this week, Wizards of the Coast senior vice president of digital games Dan Ayoub said that we won’t have to wait too long to see what the company has in store for D&D. In an interview with PC Gamer, I asked him just what that meant—did “soon” in fact mean sometime in 2025? “Definitely,”…
“Of the new jokers being added to Balatro, which is your favorite?” This was my incredibly lame attempt to extract a little classified information about the upcoming Balatro 1.1 update while talking to Wout van Halderen, the communications director at Balatro’s publisher, Playstack, when we talked at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this…
You might know Bloober Team for its Silent Hill 2 remake, which everyone was really scared would suck until it turned out to be pretty okay, but the studio’s penchant for polarizing horror goes back a long way. These days, it’s cooking up games under a horror-centric co-development label called Broken Mirror Games—the latest of…
Category: Announcements March 20, 2025 Xbox Joins Partners Across the Industry to Unveil Accessible Games Initiative Team Xbox At Xbox, our goal is to empower as many people as possible to play the games they want, with the people they want, anywhere they want, in a way that works for them. This includes the more…
Just a few months after People Can Fly announced the suspension of work on Project Victoria, it’s sprung back to life as Lost Rift, a survival shooter that blends solo or co-op PvE gameplay and base-building with “intense PvPvE expeditions” across a mysterious archipelago of islands. Revealed during today’s Future Games Show Spring Showcase, Lost…
Charles Zukowski, a game marketing strategist, delivered a talk at Game Developers Conference 2025 on one of the perennial questions for developers big and small: How do you get your game noticed on Steam? There is, of course, no single answer to that question. Beyond the blindingly simple idea of making a great game, there…
The rise of voice chat in online videogames has inevitably led to a growth in bad behavior between players—it is, after all, a lot easier to scream slurs and abuse at other people than it is to stop playing and type them out. Moderating that sort of toxicity is tough, and some companies are turning…
Papers, Please, first released in 2013, was among the vanguard of indie games that felt like they had something to say, turning the simple act of processing paperwork into a pointed commentary on the political brutality of immigration. It was set in a fictional Soviet-esque country in 1982, which creator Lucas Pope used to amplify…