July 2025

Sometimes all you can do is take a struggling project back to the drawing board. Unfortunately for Dead Island 2 publisher Deep Silver, that’s a decision that meant adding eight years and millions of dollars to the sequel’s development time (via GamesIndustry.biz). In a talk at British game dev conference Develop:Brighton, former Deep Silver head…

Reports of job losses at Intel are reaching critical mass. In the past week, layoffs totalling around 4,000 people are reported to have hit Intel sites across California, Oregon, Texas and Arizona. As bad as these losses are, according to Intel’s own plans for the company they could just be the beginning. It started last…

All parents of Minecraft-obsessed children have learned a new song by heart this year. “LA-LA-LA-LAVA CHI-CHI-CHI-CHICKEN” booms Jack Black from the treacherous Alexa for the thirtieth time that day, and I quietly put my head in my hands and weep. The 34-second earworm Lava Chicken is the shortest song ever to crack the Billboard top…

The Edge of Fate kicks off the next era of Destiny 2 with a trippy campaign premise all about the Nine, and that’s going to be further expanded upon once the The Desert Perpetual release time rolls around. From the brief glimpse we’ve had so far, it looks to give us more of a look…

Iron Galaxy, the studio that made the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 remake, says it is investigating how an amusing, some might say slightly edgy, reference to Guitar Hero and developer Neversoft ended up in the game. It also committed to removing the image in question, even though players are now asking the…

Sometimes in this job, my decisions are easy. I see a game called COP BASTARD has released a demo, of course I download and play that demo. Simple. The question, then, is whether there’s anything to it beyond a very good name. The answer: sort of? (Image credit: Targim) Set in ’90s Japan, but seemingly…

If you needed further evidence we live in a dystopia an editor would chuck out for being too on-the-nose, try this: per sources spoken to by MobileGamer.biz, laid-off staff at social-game dev King (as in Activision Blizzard King) are being replaced by AI. The AI they helped build, in fact. If you can cast your…

We like the Ayaneo Flip DS. So much so, it sits as our top recommendation for the best compact handheld gaming PC, with our Jacob being a particularly big fan. So you can imagine the cooing and cawing in the PC Gamer office this morning when Ayaneo launched its two new clamshell models, the Flip…