August 2025

Nate Wells, Epic Games art director and former artist on Looking Glass Studios classics like Thief: The Dark Project and System Shock 2, said in this week’s episode of the Nightdive Studios Deep Dive podcast that the ecosystem of games artists where he started his career is extinct. In its place is a landscape of…

Tyler Wilde, US EIC (Image credit: Future) This week: Had an infuriating audio driver troubleshooting experience, but was soothed by goofy dance music. I have more digital stuff than ever before. My work email account is nearly 20 years old. My personal email is even older. I have gigs and gigs of old photos and…

In a recent interview with Swedish site Dagens industri (via The Guardian), Ulf Kristersson, the Prime Minister of Sweden, said he regularly consults with AI chatbots including ChatGPT and the French service Le Chat to get a “second opinion” on decisions. Unsurprisingly, that turned out to be an admission he probably should have kept to…

Just as the requirements for getting into the two-day early access Battlefield 6 beta appeared set in stone, EA is giving folks another chance to get a 48-hour head start on the fun. “Watch 30 minutes of any creator streaming Battlefield 6 on Twitch during August 7-8 to unlock Open Beta Early Access,” the official…

The Battlefield 6 beta doesn’t properly start for two more days, but that isn’t stopping thousands of eager hill campers from getting in on the action. The beta peaked at over 9,000 concurrent players on Steam yesterday after preloading opened. Presumably most of those people popped in for a few minutes to get some formalities…

Kingmakers, the game that asks ‘What if you brought an M1 Abrams main battle tank to a knife fight,’ is set to enter early access on October 8, and with that date slowly grinding nearer developer Redemption Road has released its debut dev blog—which I’m sorry to say is not about M1 Abrams main battle…