April 5, 2025

Balatro-focused YouTube channel Balatro University has shared a video describing their personal experience with YouTube age restricting videos about the game, with the given reason being its alleged depiction of gambling. Balatro creator LocalThunk has even commented on the situation, frustrated by the continued mischaracterization of his game. On March 19th, YouTube instituted a TOS…

Bill Petras, a veteran of Blizzard Entertainment with a career spanning over 30 years in the games industry, has died. The news was shared to LinkedIn by Petras’ friend and colleague, former Blizzard cinematics director, Harley D. Huggins II. Petras is survived by his family, who are planning a celebration of life for Petras in…

First reported by Gaming on Linux, backend updates to the yet-to-be officially announced Neverwinter Nights 2 Enhanced Edition recorded by SteamDB show that the remaster of Obsidian’s 2006 classic is already Steam Deck verified. The tags on SteamDB were updated a few days ago on April 3, and SteamDB is also how we became aware…

It’s no secret that Assassin’s Creed has been stuck in a bit of a rut for a while. While the series’ use of wildly different historical time periods helps add a lot of variety, it’s struggled to marry its many disparate systems in a cohesive way. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla makes this more obvious than ever…

This week, Helldivers 2 celebrated the first anniversary of Malevelon Creek, the game’s most famous battle that saw participants holding the line on the jungle planet against a massive automaton incursion. A new robot offensive to take the Creek is currently ongoing. But despite having a war to fight, one errant helldiver chose to commemorate…

Terra Invicta, the space 4X from the creators XCOM’s Long War mod, was already denser than a black hole when it launched into Steam early access back in 2022. But that hasn’t stopped developer Pavonis Interactive from stuffing yet more matter into its strategic singularity where the alien defence of XCOM fuses with the geopolitics…

Ambitious modding projects are a bit like baby fish, in that millions of them spawn, but relatively few survive to adulthood. Hence, it’s always worth celebrating when one makes it through to full release. Such is the case with the Middle-earth Extended Edition, which launches into 1.0 today after 13 years of development. Middle-earth: Extended…