2025

I had the chance to talk to veteran RPG designer Josh Sawyer (Pentiment, Pillars of Eternity, Fallout: New Vegas) at this year’s Game Developer’s Conference, and alongside other big ticket RPG topics, I had romance on my mind. I don’t want to pigeonhole Sawyer as “the anti-RPG romance guy,” but he’s been a consistent critic…

In what seems like an entirely out-of-nowhere reminder, a surprise message on the Prince of Persia X account has popped up to promise everyone that yes, Ubisoft is still working on The Sands of Time “behind the scenes,” and no, it has nothing more to say about it. It’s all a bit odd, and almost…

Angelos Mako was seven years old when he started playing Dungeon Rampage with his older brother, saving the good guys and slaying hordes of evil minions. A decade later, he also saved the game itself. Dungeon Rampage was a simple Facebook game, a cartoony hack-n-slash that was procedurally generated, so the dungeons were always a…

Lies of P: Overture, the new and impressively lengthy expansion to Neowiz’s “Fairytale of New Yharnam,” is packed with fascinating characters, the juiciest lore, and plenty of glistening abominations covered in a concerning quantity of teeth and eyeballs. But a little feature patched into the main menu during Overture’s release caused a predictable stir: difficulty….

After weeks of hand-wringing, outrage, ill-advised social media posts, and the sturm und drang of online gamer life, Borderlands 4 preorders are finally live and it is not, as some had feared, an $80 game. But if you want to throw nearly double the regular price at it, there’s an on the table for that,…

The founder of Nexus Mods, Robin ‘Dark0ne’ Scott, has announced he’s stepping back from the day-to-day running of the site, a full 24 years after founding it. “I started this project back in 2001, in my bedroom, with a 56k modem, an excitement for the upcoming release of Morrowind and with no grand ambitions or…

Everyone has a different way of going about their work. Some like to plan meticulously, colour code information and have Excel spreadsheets on Excel spreadsheets, and others, well, others have GDocs. As it turns out, throwing ideas into an ever-growing chaotic GDoc for days on end was actually Philipp Weber’s first job at CD Projekt…