September 2025

Game developers, generally speaking, don’t like leaks. Infinity Nikki studio Infold, for instance, recently described leaks as “poison to all creation.” That’s maybe a bit much, but it does capture the broad sentiment: When you’re working on something that’s meant to be a surprise, and someone blows that surprise, it sucks. Developers do what they…

Borderlands 4 has had a complicated launch. Initial critical response was fairly positive, but some sites—including PC Gamer—didn’t receive pre-release code and were unable to offer their own opinions at launch. And once the clock hit go time, early Steam reviews were dominated by reports of performance issues and crashes that we experienced in our…

The vibe shift on goofy cosmetics in live service games is impossible to ignore at this point. Call of Duty has issued a full reversal on its plans to allow fantastical skins in Black Ops 7 after heavy backlash, and today, Battlefield 6 developers reaffirmed their commitment to not ending up like Fortnite. “We want…

Star Citizen may not be the most famously overdue videogame of all time, but it has to be a top-five contender, especially given that it is now just shy of $865 million (and no, there’s not an errant zero in there, that’s eight-hundred and sixty-five million smackeroos) raised in crowdfunding. Developer Cloud Imperium Games recently…

In what feels like a common occurrence these days, some new DLC for a game came out and was quickly followed up with an apology from the developer. Paradox did it earlier this week for Crusader Kings 3, and now it’s Funcom’s turn with Dune: Awakening, which just released its first post-launch DLC, Lost Harvest….

Activision’s anti-cheat team has published an update on Call of Duty and Ricochet, claiming that with Black Ops 6 “we’ve made real progress.” Over the month of August “over 55,000 cheaters were disrupted by Call of Duty’s mitigations” and the Ricochet team even allow themselves a bit of a chuckle about how doltish some of…