Counter-Strike 2 modders surprise drop an excellent Halo 3 multiplayer pack, accidentally proving how badly Valve has squandered Source 2

FOV 90 (Image credit: Future) Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every week, I’ll be covering a topic relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new. Project Misriah: Halo Ports, a collection of Counter-Strike 2 custom maps that recreate classic…

Read More

Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says today’s games suffer from trying ‘to be everything for everyone’ when they should be learning from ’80s games: ‘These games were really focused, because they had to be’

Today’s games have forgotten the lessons of history, according to veteran RPG developer and Fallout co-creator Tim Cain. In a YouTube video uploaded this week in response to a viewer who asked whether old games could offer any “lost wisdom” for today’s game developers and designers, Cain responded with an emphatic “Yes.” Today’s games, Cain…

Read More

Larian Studios responds to 2025 Game Awards nomination for Baldur’s Gate 3, which came out more than 2 years ago: ‘honestly, what the f**k’

We are bearing down on the final weeks of 2025, and somehow—somehow!—Baldur’s Gate 3, a game that released more than two years ago (more than five years ago, if you count the lengthy early access stretch) is still banging the table at The Game Awards. It’s reached the point where even developer Larian Studios seems…

Read More

Everyone knows the AI business model is steal first, ask permission later, and Google’s CEO is clinging to the notion of opt-outs as justifying it: ‘We do give people those rights’

The head of Google parent company Alphabet, Sunder Pichai, has given a new interview to the BBC in which he says fears of the AI bubble bursting may well be justified. “I think no company is going to be immune, including us,” said Pichai. We’ll return to the bubble, but the section of the interview…

Read More

Delta Force devs apologise after Facepunch Studios exec accuses them of stealing assets from Rust: ‘If you wanted to collab, you should have reached out’

Team Jade released a new trailer for its military FPS Delta Force earlier today, kicking off the new ‘Asarah’ Season that introduces a new map for its Battlefield-style Warfare mode and an event for its extraction-themed Operations mode. Soon after the Chinese company came under fire from the COO of Facepunch Studios, Alistair McFarlane, as…

Read More

Stella Montis condenses everything I love about Arc Raiders by cramming it all into a cramped facility of pure chaos

Sean Martin, Senior Guides Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: merrily skipping through the gorgeous scenery of Dam Battlegrounds. This week I’ve been: trying to survive the Raider and Arc packed perils of Stella Montis. I love shouting “Don’t shoot” in Stella Montis in solo—it’s like Raider radar. You’ll hear one person reply…

Read More