It’s another busy month. We’re still taking in everything that’s recently been announced for the Switch 2 (and Switch 1), but there’s no time to slow down with May just around the corner. If you are wondering what’s up next and haven’t had a chance to investigate it for yourself just yet, Nintendo has now…
Remember NFTs? Essentially JPEGs that cost a lot of money, non-fungible tokens were really big for a brief while among C-tier celebrities, budding criminals, and Ubisoft, until the internet was finally able to bully them out of sight and thus out of mind: Not really gone, but mostly forgotten. But a funny thing recently happened…
The stars aligned last week when I got to play the two biggest extraction shooters of 2025 on the same day: The Marathon alpha began at the same time that Embark held a press session for Arc Raiders. Going in, I was way more interested in Marathon. Not only is it an FPS (the superior…
The Splitgate 2 open alpha test that ran earlier this year was “very fun,” in the opinion of PC Gamer shooter pro Morgan Park, with some significant changes made based on feedback from a playtest that ran in 2024. And there’s good news if you missed it: 1047 Games announced today that a much bigger…
In 2006 Final Fantasy 12 was a brand new PlayStation 2 game, the Xbox 360’s hard drive was at least in spirit still an optional extra, and horse armour DLC was the biggest corporate issue surrounding Oblivion’s launch. I didn’t play the game back then because I thought I didn’t need to—I had Morrowind, a…
Head into Fortnite’s ever-growing library of user-generated game modes and you’ll be inundated with all kinds of AI-generated thumbnails vying for your attention. That won’t be changing anytime soon either, as Epic product management director Dan Walsh and executive vice president Saxs Persson dove into the rise of generative AI usage in Fortnite during a…
Between 300 to 400 people have lost their job. Electronic Arts is reportedly laying off between 300-400 staff, with 100 of those coming from Apex Legends and Star Wars: Jedi developer Respawn, Bloomberg reports. A spokesperson for EA told the publication that the Redwood City, California-based company has “made select changes within our organization that…
Electronic Arts has reportedly laid off 300 and 400 people, according to a new Bloomberg report, including roughly 100 at Apex Legends studio Respawn Entertainment. Respawn has also cancelled at least two early-in-development projects, one of which was reportedly a Titanfall-based extraction shooter. “As part of our continued focus on our long-term strategic priorities, we’ve…