Adam Badowski, joint CEO of CD Projekt Red, doesn’t look back fondly on the collectible-card romance options in The Witcher 1. “It was childish in the beginning,” he says when the topic comes up. He’s much more pleased with how things turned out in The Witcher 3, which did justice to what he calls “the…
Deep Rock Galactic developer Ghost Ship Games is hard at work on its next game, Rogue Core, which is coming out next year. Based on the enduring popularity of Deep Rock, it’ll probably be a hit—but that’s not a guarantee in a multiplayer space increasingly squeezed between new games and perennial favorites that have managed…
And it’s expected to be “one of the big drivers of the holiday quarter”. Pokémon Legends: Z-A launched for the Switch and Switch 2 last month, and now some new information has surfaced about the game’s US release. During an interview with Kyle Bosman recently, Circana’s video game industry analyst Mat Piscatella revealed the new…
Rust is home to some of the most creatively antagonistic building designs in any survival crafting game, but that’s mostly out of necessity to deter thieves from stealing precious metals and weaponry. But then there’s another type of base architect, the type who builds a trap base just to lure you in… then kill you….
Nothing about PUBG and Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton’s recent decision to become an “AI-first company” look good. The company plans to drop over 130 billion won ($88 million) into the project, recently stopped hiring new employees, and started a voluntary resignation program for its employees in South Korea this week. Far down the ladder from…
Alien: Earth, the FX prequel series about an alien from Alien (plus a bunch more different kinds of aliens) crash-landing on terra firma, has been picked up for a second season, per Variety. That’s good news for two reasons: I enjoyed the first season (except for one part) and the final episode didn’t really do…
Of the three hardware announcements Valve made yesterday, the Steam Controller is probably the least exciting at face value. It looks a whole lot like the original Steam controller, which hardly set the world ablaze. Also, it’s a gamepad. There are countless PC gamepads on the market, and many are better than what Microsoft or…
The Outer Worlds 2’s main menu is the epitome of “Oh hey, that’s neat!” All of your options are structured as a dialogue with an animatronic Moon Man, the in-game corporate mascot who serves as the series’ own Vault Boy in real life. Things get really interesting, though, when both he and the environment around…
For the third time this year, Tomb Raider studio Crystal Dynamics has laid off employees: The company announced today that it’s making a “difficult but necessary” reorganization of its studios and team, and that as a result nearly 30 people will be put out of work. The cuts will be made “across various departments and…
One of Russia’s first humanoid AI robots was unveiled on-stage in Moscow on Tuesday this week—and after shuffling on-stage to that Soviet-era classic, the Rocky theme tune, it almost immediately faceplanted. But the reason you should watch the below video is not merely the delicious AI schadenfreude: it’s what the humans do. The robot is…