2025

Jeremiah Leif Johnson, a writer and editor for a number of gaming and tech websites including IGN, Vice Motherboard, Macworld, and PC Gamer, died suddenly of a cardiovascular event last Saturday, May 17. He would have been 46 in June. Leif started writing about games professionally in his 30s, at which point he had already…

10 years after buying White Wolf from CCP Games, and seven years after eliminating it as a “separate entity,” Paradox Interactive is bringing it back as “the official licensing and publishing entity for all its transmedia properties, including Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, and Hunter: The Reckoning.” White Wolf will also serve as co-publisher…

Hang out with a game developer in a casual setting for an hour and the topic of gamedev misconceptions is bound to come up. It’s always fun to explain what people get wrong about your job, especially if it could lead to fewer misguided assumptions and mean comments on the internet. Such was the goal…

Snake Eater is special. And as much as I love Cold War Metal Gear, I’m not talking about the game. I’m talking about the song. From the first drum hits and horn blasts, the Snake Eater theme, sung by vocalist Cynthia Harrell, is in perfect alignment with the game it’s introducing. It’s bombastic; it’s espionage-smooth;…

The Splitgate 2 open beta is not going well—in fact, it’s not going at all. After running headlong into serious technical problems following the launch of the beta test on May 22, developer 1047 Games has taken the servers offline and is now “working around the clock” to get things fixed and back online. “Obviously…

There was a brief surge of excitement a couple days ago when Larian Studios temporarily changed its handle on X from @larianstudios to @divinity. This was a big deal (or at least it appeared to be) because prior to hitting the big big time with Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian was known as the studio behind…