Slay the Spire 2, the sequel to one of the defining PC games of the last decade, is going to be late—and the developers swear it’s not because of Hollow Knight: Silksong. “We got together as a team to determine our new release window before Silksong’s date was announced,” Mega Crit’s community manager wrote in…
The biggest change in Borderlands 4 is undoubtedly the shift towards a full open-world. Long gone are the days of separate zones; now we can walk from end to end with no interruptions—besides killing hordes of bandits, of course. However, this change has always made navigation that much more complicated, as we’re not restricted by…
As reported by TheGamer and Le Parisien, the former French voice of Lara Croft, Françoise Cadol, has reportedly issued a cease and desist to Aspyr over what seem to be AI-generated voice lines imitating her in the remasters of Tomb Raiders 4, 5, and 6. Lara Croft’s Brazilian Portuguese actor for this portion of the…
Borderlands 4 got off to a rough start on Steam today, mostly because of performance and crash problems—you can read more about that in Nick Evanson’s heroic launch-day performance report. As I write this, there’s been no official response from Gearbox about the game’s technical issues, but it has put out a statement on another…
When it comes to the Borderland series, some things never change: The cel-shaded look Gearbox settled on all those years ago, the love-it-or-hate-it humour. And on PC, there’s one more thing you can throw into the mix: every major Borderlands game has run like a bag of frogs juggling bowling balls on release. Which is…
This week, the internet is flush with freshly self-appointed legal experts thanks to emerging news that Nintendo has added more patent weaponry to its ever-growing legal arsenal, including a patent on calling and battling companion characters that was seemingly rubber-stamped without pushback by US patent officials. Yesterday, we published the opinions of videogame IP lawyer…
The US Federal Trade Commission has launched an inquiry into “AI chatbots acting as companions,” seeking to determine how companies including Google, Meta, OpenAI, and X “measure, test, and monitor potentially negative impacts of this technology on children and teens.” The rise of AI-powered chatbots has been accompanied by disturbing and sometimes horrific stories about…
Borderlands 4 just launched and, predictably, players on Steam are already criticizing its PC performance. Meanwhile, the just-released Hollow Knight: Silksong didn’t raise any performance concerns, but gamers in China were dismayed to discover that the Chinese translation was botched. Those are just a couple of the reasons some gamers have chosen to reject launch…
Borderlands 4 is out today, and it’s been very well received critically, at least by those sites who received pre-release code—a list that does not include PC Gamer. It’s a different situation over on Steam, however, where a whole lot of people are playing Borderlands 4, but the overall user rating is an ugly “mostly…
The United States Department of Justice has placed an $11 million bounty on Ukrainian national Volodymyr Viktorovich Tymoshchuk—who also goes by the aliases deadforz, Boba, msfv, and farnetwork—accusing him of being the mastermind behind ransomware that has been used to attack over 250 US companies, as well as others around the world. The DoJ says…