The Forgotten Realms is the default setting of Dungeons & Dragons for a lot of players. It’s the world that gave us Pool of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds, Drizzt and Elminster, and also one quite good DC comic from the early ’90s that only I seem to remember. More recently it gave…
In a recent episode of Nightdive Studios’ Deep Dive podcast, legendary developer John Romero casually revealed a surprising road not taken in both his own career, and gaming history writ large: Looking Glass Studios (System Shock, Thief) founder Paul Neurath asked Romero to co-found the company with him, but Romero had a prior commitment. Both…
Young people are so strapped for cash that even video games are getting too expensive for them. A June study by Circana, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, found that spending among 18-to-24-year-olds dropped by 13% from January to April 2025 compared to last year. Video game purchases were hit particularly hard, falling nearly…
If you’re dreading the end of Windows 10 in October, you’re not alone. One man from San Diego is taking Microsoft to court over its choice to discontinue Windows 10, claiming that Microsoft is forcing people to buy new devices and attempting to “monopolize the generative AI market.” The plaintiff, Lawrence Klein, argues that Microsoft…
AMD quietly released a new GPU this weekend, but there wasn’t much fanfare for it. As reported by Tom’s Hardware, the humble Radeon RX 7400 is the latest addition to AMD’s 7000 series GPU line-up which first launched three years ago. It runs on the last-gen RDNA3 architecture with 8GB of GDDR6 RAM. Those specs…
One of the first American videogame magazines is now available for anyone to read, enjoy, and remix thanks to the Video Game History Foundation. Computer Entertainer, which ran from 1982 to 1990, surviving even the dark age of the videogame industry collapse, is now completely digitized and available to the public under a Creative Commons…
For the Melody Motorway. Ohhhhh, Zeebraaaa, Zeebraaaaa, ZEEBRAAAAA!~ Here I am, tapping out once again to the Zebra Bananza theme. It’s a song fit for Carnival, a blend of styles from all across Latin America — the Brazilian Samba, the Cuban Salsa, the Argentinian Tango. Every time DK beats his chest and transforms into the…
Doom: The Dark Ages is definitely one of my favourite games from this year, even if it didn’t quite match the dizzying heights of Doom Eternal. But with its latest update, id Software’s action-packed prequel may have taken two thundering steps toward the quality of its predecessor. Update 2 brings one massive new mode to…
