July 2025
A Wolfenstein TV series is in development by the Fallout TV series people: ‘The story of killing Nazis is evergreen’
Variety reports that Amazon is developing a Wolfenstein TV series with Patrick Somerville, who made post-apocalyptic miniseries Station Eleven and wrote some of HBO’s The Leftovers (a show with a genuinely good twist), and Kilter Films, the production company behind Amazon’s Fallout TV show. Variety says that the show’s being pitched with the one-sentence description:…
Poll: So, Will You Be Getting Super Mario Party Jamboree For Switch 2?
Go on, tell us. Nintendo bolstered the Switch 2 library this week with the release of Super Mario Party Jamboree – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Jamboree TV. Now that the reviews have been released, and everyone has had some time to check them out, we’re curious to know if you’re planning on getting the…
Fans claim Blizzard’s new Diablo Immortal x Hearthstone art was made with generative AI
The ear is the most convincing part of Reddit user Ipyreable’s post that claims artwork posted by official Diablo Immortal social media accounts was created with generative AI. Human ears simply do not look like that, even in the fantasy universes of Warcraft and Diablo. The art, which depicts a Warcraft character playing Hearthstone against…
Gabe Newell on the difference between billionaires and the rest of us: ‘an awful lot of luck’
In a lengthy interview with YouTuber Zalkar Saliev (TikTok, Instagram), Valve co-founder Gabe Newell attributed his billions to “luck” and “being surrounded by great people.” Asked whether there’s a difference between enormously wealthy entrepreneurs and everyone else, Newell said that the only reason to think so comes from “unsound” analysis. (The topic comes up around…
A 21-second video of a hand ignites a sizzling debate over the FPS ‘tac sprint’
“Walking. Sprinting. That’s all we need,” declared the prophet JoovYT, a YouTuber with a bone to pick with how we sprint in shooters these days. In the 21-second video captioned “My Battlefield 6 wishlist,” Joov makes a fierce case that Battlefield 6, and any other FPS for that matter, need not offer two different sprint…
Dune: Awakening ‘temporarily’ disables Steam Family Sharing, potentially through the end of 2025: ‘We have unfortunately seen this feature abused frequently’
Survival MMO Dune: Awakening got off to a strong start in June, but here at the tail end of July it’s gotten stuck in a bit of quicksand. Even making changes to the controversial chopper-heavy endgame hasn’t stopped recent Steam reviews from sliding to “Mixed,” and despite several patches to squash exploits and hackers, cheating…
After selling to Krafton, Last Epoch dev says fans shouldn’t be worried about the Subnautica 2 dispute: ‘Krafton isn’t looking to change us’
Fans of action RPG Last Epoch are understandably worried about today’s news that the studio behind it has been acquired by the publisher that’s currently being sued by a group of recently-ousted Subnautica 2 developers. Judd Cobler, founder of Eleventh Hour Games, said there’s nothing to worry about in a series of posts on the…
How Mycopunk’s devs turned a school project with zero funding into a ‘Very Positive’ Steam launch: ‘We wanted to make our own dream version of Deep Rock or Helldivers’
“It’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission,” modeler Ryan Yan said, recounting his team’s mantra going into GDC 2024. Yan and creative director Liam Cribbs were in San Francisco to pitch publishers on a school project they’d been plugging away at for nine months with a handful of friends at NYU. Mycopunk, which released…
The first ‘real videogame’ Gabe Newell played was Star Trek, where you made your choices via punch cards before running over to the printer: ‘It usually takes about 15 minutes to do a move’
Valve co-founder and yacht-loving billionaire Gabe Newell has granted a new interview to the YouTuber Zalkar Saliev (TikTok, IG). The chat covers everything from Newell’s current daily routine (“get up, work, go scuba diving“) to his earliest days as a programmer: and how he ended up at Microsoft. One particularly interesting digression comes when Newell…