For years, the developers of Final Fantasy have fretted that a big audience will no longer show up for turn-based games: that to make a flashy, expensive RPG these days, it’s all about the action. Perhaps that’s true when you need a game to sell in the tens of millions, but within the same period…
Nintendo has released an official response after rumors spread online last week that it was lobbying against generative AI with the Japanese government, as reported by Video Games Chronicle. Nintendo stated in a post on X (formerly Twitter): “Contrary to recent discussions on the internet, Nintendo has not had any contact with the Japanese government…
40-year games industry veteran Rebecca Heineman has started a GoFundMe to help deal with an aggressive cancer diagnosis, one whose costs are only partially covered by private insurance. Heineman’s career extends back to the days of Space Invaders, with credits on at least 71 games including The Bard’s Tale 3 and early ports of Doom…
Hey everyone, We’ve been hard at work behind the scenes on the 2026 Midwest Gaming Classic, and I figure it’s time to share some of them with you! First up, tickets are on sale and we’ve had a great response already, with our VIG tickets having already sold more than double than what they did…
A month after launch, Cronos: The New Dawn now has a native Linux build, with devs Bloober Team announcing in a post on Steam, “Today, we’ve released a native build of the game for Steam’s handheld console, which means even better performance on this platform. Enjoy Cronos on Steam, wherever you are!” Cronos: The New…
“Valve added a bunch of new community maps to Counter-Strike 2 on October 2nd,” SteamDB wrote in an October 4 BlueSky post, “and now one of the maps, Transit, has been removed due to potential copyright issues and one of the entity names having a gamer word.” Attached was a picture of a distinctively-shaped building…
I’ve never been a big JRPG person except for Persona, but I fell head over heels for The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel port that came to PC back in 2017. I can’t even remember the exact circumstances that led me to put 50 hours into a game I’d never heard of before,…
Less than a week after OpenAI launched its Sora 2 AI video generation model on September 30, it’s already backtracking to change its policy around copyrighted content, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. In a blog post published on October 3, Sam Altman responded to a wave of copyright concerns surrounding Sora 2 and…
Our picks for the best eShop games on Switch and Switch 2 in Setember! Phew. What a month, hey? It’s time for eShop Selects, and it’s a doozy. As we approach the holiday season, we’re practically drowning in games, with two of the biggest indies of the year hitting within weeks of each other. A…
I reflect fondly on two particular videogame moments that defined the earliest stretches of pandemic lockdowns five years ago. For fans of GTA Online, the alien gang wars of 2020 live long in the memory. For Fortnite aficionados, who could forget Travis Scott’s jaw-dropping in-game Astronomical event? One scripted, one very-much-not, but two watershed moments…