As if Elden Ring character stats weren’t confusing enough, FromSoftware further obfuscated their purpose in Elden Ring Nightreign. Each Nightfarer has letter ratings instead of numbers to denote their relative proficiency with each stat, but the real values are hidden. You just have to trust they’re going up a meaningful amount each time you level…
After an ugly launch that saw its Steam rating crater to “mostly negative,” briefly climb to “mixed,” and then biff it back to “mostly negative,” MindsEye developer Build a Rocket Boy says it’s working “around the clock” on performance improvements, and that the first in a series of planned patches is slated to arrive on…
A day after reaching a tentative agreement with major game companies over “critical AI protections” for voice actors, the SAG-AFTRA union has suspended the strike that’s been ongoing since July 2024 and given its members the green light to return to work. That the strike is “suspended” and not ended is meaningful, as the new…
Mecha Break hit some turbulence when its open beta period started earlier this year. The mecha battler’s online beta dropped in late February and thousands of Chinese players couldn’t access the game due to server issues. Their response was a Steam review bomb. Hundreds of reviews trashed developer Amazing Seasun for not being more prepared…
Space is the final frontier, and for Supermassive Games, it’s also a new one. With Directive 8020, the latest entry in The Dark Pictures anthology, the studio finally takes to the stars. But even as it grapples with a shape-shifting alien and the constant, imposing doom posed by the void of space, Supermassive is finding…
This past Summer Game Fest weekend was so turgid with reveal trailers I had trouble keeping track of it all. Earlier this week, we took stock of what we saw with a list of our favorite games at Summer Game Fest 2025, and now here’s a list of the biggest games that weren’t at Summer…
Squeezed in between his controversial appearance at the Summer Game Fest wearing a MAGA-style “Make FPS Great Again” hat and his subsequent apology for it, Splitgate 2 boss Ian Proulx couldn’t help himself from slipping a quick knock against a former Call of Duty developer—and former Splitgate 2 developer—in a video on X. It was…
AI image generator Midjourney could be facing some serious legal headaches, as The Verge reports that the company is being sued by Hollywood powerhouses Disney and Universal, who say the company’s unauthorized use of its characters make it a “bottomless pit of plagiarism.” Midjourney is a generative AI service that yacks up images based on…
2 the max. One pleasant surprise of the Switch 2 launch, beyond the advertised upgrades — free and otherwise — to various Switch games, has been seeing how some Switch games that once struggled to hit their frame rate targets have gotten a nice boost on the new console. It seems that Switch 1 games…
Troleu is perhaps the most specific job simulator game I’ve played. Inspired (loosely, I assume, but who can say) by developer andrground’s experience of Moldovan public transit, it’s a frenzy of change-counting, validating trolley passes, and hurling passengers at a demonic ticket inspector so you don’t lose your day’s wages. In my time with the…