November 2025

Yoshiro Kimura seems to only be half kidding when he tells me that he “escaped” from Squaresoft in the mid 1990s, where he’d started his career as a game designer on Romancing SaGa 2 for the Super Nintendo. Even back then, when game studios were a fraction of the size of today’s behemoths making Call…

Cheaters are the bane of pretty much every competitive multiplayer videogame in existence. It never really made much sense to me because it doesn’t seem like much fun—it’s a lot of work just to grief some random guy, which when you get right down to it is really all that’s happening—but some people just can’t…

The air of criminal mystique has been dispelled somewhat in the weeks following the October 18 heist that saw $102 million of crown jewels stolen from the Louvre in broad daylight. The suspects fumbled an entire crown during their escape, before trying and failing to light their mechanical lift on fire as a diversionary tactic….

Need to remember the release date for Europa Universalis 5? Just recall this handy rhyme: In two-thousand twenty five, Europa Universalis sailed the ocean… five. Or you could just look below, I guess, because EU5 finally hits on November 4, 2025, 12 years on from the original release of Europa Universalis 4. In other words,…

World of Warcraft is finally adding player housing in the next expansion, a feature I’ve seen people begging for since I started playing back in 2006. According to the players trying it out on the Midnight alpha, it’s designed with almost no caveats to what you can create. There are years and years of decorations…

We’ve seen our share of weird gaming tournaments. Farming Simulator has a yearly competitive tourney (and it’s really good). Excel spreadsheet nerds compete in Vegas for a legit championship belt. So why doesn’t Solitaire have a world championship, too? Just because it’s a game you only ever half-heartedly play while you’re stuck at your desk…

10 years after launch and eight months since the mode’s announcement, Obsidian has revealed more details about Pillars of Eternity’s upcoming turn-based mode, as well as a date for the start of its open beta: This Wednesday, November 5. Pillars of Eternity’s director, Josh Sawyer, explained and introduced the new mode in a new video…

Less than a month after warning that Fantastic Pixel Castle would “likely close” if it couldn’t find a new publisher for its in-development MMO, studio head Greg Street says the worst has come to pass, and the studio will close its doors on November 17. Street said in a message posted to LinkedIn that it’s…

Since Battlefield 6’s first multiplayer beta, a contingent of players have held firmly to a fundamental criticism: The maps are too damn small. Ensuing weeks of heated debate have seen some longtime Battlefield veterans venting frustration with BF6’s tightly-corseted combat corridors, while others have insisted those of us longing for broader battlezones are suffering from…

So I’m minding your own business in Arc Raiders when suddenly, ‘crack, pszzt!’ Another player decided to use my body for target practice, and now my shield’s busted and HP is low. How do I react? Immediately pop a shield recharger of course. Then I take one more shot to the body and die. Turns…