July 22, 2025
Guy with 35,000 hours in Ark: Survival Evolved gives it a negative Steam review: ‘How do I get a refund!!’
Ark: Survival Evolved left early access on August 27, 2017. That’s nearly 70,000 hours ago… which means if a player has logged 35,202 hours in Ark, they’ve essentially been playing the dino-survival game for half its lifespan. Not only has one player actually done that, they just gave Ark a negative review on Steam. After…
6 years of hushed development later, Riot’s League of Legends fighting game has finally resurfaced and it’s going to be playable very soon
Six years ago, Riot announced it was working on a 2v2 fighting game based on League of Legends called Project L and it’s been relatively tight-lipped about it ever since. It wasn’t until last year that there were some signs of life when it got renamed to 2XKO and a series of YouTube videos gave…
Stop Killing Games is facing a complaint in the EU that uses nonsense logic to accuse the movement’s founder of failing to disclose financial contributions he never made: ‘It’s not paranoia if they really are out to get you’
Yesterday, after a prolonged series of hurdles and setbacks, the Stop Killing Games movement had amassed 1.4 million signatures for its European Citizens’ Initiative. If at least a million of those signatures are validated, the European Commission will have to consider the initiative’s goal of requiring game publishers looking to end support for a game…
Twitch’s most popular vtuber leads a mass exodus from her agency, claiming it withheld over $500K in charity funds: ‘This entire situation has broken me’
Withholding serious amounts of money from the most popular vtubers on Twitch isn’t a great idea, it turns out. Ironmouse, who is probably the biggest vtuber on the streaming platform, published a video Monday in which she alleges that her former agency, VShojo, withheld a $515,000 donation to charity along with “a significant amount of…
Stunning Retro Throwback ‘Terminator 2D: No Fate’ Suffers Minor Delay
It will be back soon though. Reef Entertainment and Bitmap Bureau’s Terminator 2D: NO FATE has been delayed due to coordination and manufacturing issues with the physical release. Now coming on 31st October 2025 — as opposed to its original 5th September release date — publisher Reef apologised for the delay and thanked fans “for…
RIP, Prince of Darkness: Ozzy Osbourne has died at age 76
Founding Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne has died, his family reports. The extremely influential metal singer and reality TV star was 76, and had recently performed at a benefit concert with Black Sabbath’s original members. He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2019. Osbourne’s most direct connection to gaming is his appearance in Double Fine’s…
Dwarf Fortress just made it easier for modders to add their own procedural creatures, items, curses, and more: ‘All of these things have been hard-coded in Dwarf Fortress, inaccessible to modders. Now the algorithms and data are available’
For years, Dwarf Fortress co-creator Tarn Adams has been planning a more mythical turn for the notoriously dense fantasy sim—which, by his own admission, has been a little lacking on the fantastical front. Today, thanks in large part to the efforts of programmer Putnam, who joined Bay 12 Games in 2022, Dwarf Fortress makes its…
Abiotic Factor guide: Tips for exploring the Office Sector, making soup, and feeding your coworker
This meeting could have been an email, or better yet, it could be an Abiotic Factor guide. We’ve poured countless hours into combating the Half-Life horrors found in developer Deep Field’s survival crafting parody, and documented plenty of Office Sector do’s and don’ts along the way. With the Abiotic Factor 1.0 update finally live and…
Splitgate 2 is going back into beta: 1047 will keep the floundering FPS online and lay off more staff as it goes back to the drawing board
I think this sufficiently checks all the boxes for a complete disaster: 1047 Games has announced that it will revert portal FPS Splitgate 2 back to beta, lay off an unspecified number of employees, and will shut down the Splitgate 1 servers next month. The sequel launched not even two months ago on June 6,…