The Edge of Fate marks a landmark shift for Destiny 2. It’s both the launch of a new saga—an attempt to hook players into a bold new direction for the game’s story—and a massive change to Destiny’s most fundamental progression systems. Seasons are gone. Loot has been overhauled. The very structure of the activities you…
We’re in a golden age for incredibly weird games from Eastern Europe. There’s Indika, the one where you play a nun who chats with Satan. There’s Militsioner, the one where you explore a town presided over by a 100-story-tall cop. There’s HROT, the FPS about socialist Czechoslovakia. And now there’s One-Eyed Likho, a horror/puzzle game…
Game director “Soulframe” Liang accidentally started his career by making free games in RPG Maker and releasing them online. Two decades later, he’s making one of the highest profile upcoming games in China, the “kungfupunk” actioner Phantom Blade Zero. I recently flew to Beijing to spend a few hours with the game and have come…
I think unboxing experiences are a little overrated. While it’s nice to open your new purchase and find a level of care and attention paid to the packaging that makes every component feel like a rare gem, I don’t really mind if a product comes in a default, easy-to-recycle cardboard container. It makes me feel…
Data security in this day and age was already a joke. Besides one accurately guessed password putting a 158-year old company out of business, hackers keep finding zero-day flaws in Chrome like it’s going out of fashion. Speaking of, the latest data security punchline involves a zero-day flaw in Lovense, an app designed to remotely…
If the last decade has taught us anything, it’s that live service game development is the industry’s equivalent of high stakes gambling, where publishers ante up millions of dollars in the hopes that their game might hit the jackpot of becoming a lifestyle like Fortnite and Roblox. But as we’ve seen from countless failed launches,…
With mouse controls and 120fps, too! Japanese developer ITL is returning to one of its DSiWare titles, Handy Hockey, and bringing it to the Switch 2 in just two days — on 31st July 2025 — for the bargain price of £5.00 / $7.00. The original game launched as a DSiWare title back in 2010…
When you get to a certain age, birthdays stop being as meaningful as they were when you’re younger, but in the case of a certain Microsoft operating system, this one is very special. That’s because on 29 July 2015, Windows 10 was released to the public, and I’m happy to celebrate its tenth anniversary. I’m…
“This is an insane thing to write about game development”. I’m tired of hearing about AI. You’re tired of hearing about AI. However, no matter how much we get bored of it, just spare a thought for those impacted by the game industry’s current fixation with the tech – a fixation that is costing people…
Hi there, I’m Miki Majka, Game Producer at Rock Square Thunder. Today, I want to give you a first look at the official gameplay trailer for our upcoming game, I Hate This Place, which is coming to PlayStation 5 later this year. It’s a craft-based, isometric survival horror experience all wrapped in bold comic-style visuals…