August 2025

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…

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…

The runaway success of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been exhaustively documented by this point. But the game’s ecstatic reception by players came as a surprise not only because the game was made by a small (though not that small) team, but also because it’s a turn-based RPG at a time when the market is…