May 20, 2025

The Witcher 3 at 10 (Image credit: CD Projekt RED) To celebrate its 10th anniversary, all this week we’re looking back on The Witcher 3—and looking ahead to its upcoming sequel, too. Keep checking back for more features and retrospectives, as well as in-depth interviews with the developers who brought the game to life. Let’s…

We’ve gotten our first look at Nicolas Cage as John Madden in the upcoming movie Madden, and I’m stoked. Not for the story or subject: I don’t care much about football, I honestly haven’t played much of the Madden games, and I mostly only know John Madden himself from the TV commercials he did for…

Microsoft is facing more pushback over its dealings with the Israeli military, as The Verge reports that the company’s Build developer conference has been interrupted twice by protesters. The first incident occurred shortly after the start of CEO Satya Nadella’s keynote on May 19, when firmware engineer and No Azure for Apartheid organizer Joe Lopez…

There’s a boss fight near the midpoint of Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny that I genuinely did not think I’d be able to get through. Not due to any intended challenge or a jarring difficulty spike, but due to its 2002-ass design: fixed camera angles suddenly switching and changing my directional input mid fight; a huge…

It’s been a while since Subnautica 2 first pinged the radar back in 2022, but we know there’s a return voyage from developer Unknown Worlds in the works, and it’s out sometime this year. We’ve seen a slow and steady trickle of details on the next dive—teasers from showcases, Discord updates, and even screenshots hidden…

Despite what the daily millions of PR blunders, bad faith readings, knee-jerk hostilities, and people generally posting through it might indicate, choosing not to tweet is often the wiser decision. That wisdom was ignored last week by Gearbox CEO, former magician, and terminal poster Randy Pitchford, who chose of his own volition to tell a…

After nearly 12 years at Obsidian Entertainment, Avowed game director Carrie Patel has left the studio to take on a similar position at Night School, the Netflix-owned developer of the Oxenfree games. Patel announced her departure and new role in a very brief message posted on LinkedIn (via Insider Gaming): “I’m happy to share that…