We all need to get better at seeing the big picture. Given the recent furore over Jeff Grubb’s comments on 1980s European gaming being “merely a scene” and the resultant backlash, it seemed prudent to me to take a broader view. Grubb’s comments on the European home computer “scene” got a few people’s backs up…
Less than a minute remains on Steel Hunters‘ countdown clock when the last surviving pair of Hunters lumber into view, rolling over a hilltop toward the same extraction point my own team waits at. Even across a half-mile of desolate wasteland pocked by buildings, I can tell they are Weaver, a mechanical spider armed with…
The Stern of the Union Address, your monthly resource for news, information and highlights on all things Stern Pinball. Without further ado my fellow pinheads: DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: The Tyrant’s Eye: DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: The Tyrant’s Eye continues to roll as games make their way all over the world, including at IGN Fan Fest and…
There’s more to being a Hobbit than fleeing for your life and trying to survive increasingly hostile environments. This is why Wētā Workshop invites you to a taste of adventure that’s a little more… wholesome. I had a cozy chat with Stephen Lambert, Tales of the Shire: A Lord of The Rings Game creative director,…
“We put all our effort into the game”. Creating a brand-new IP can prove risky at the best of times, yet when Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka mentioned that Too Kyo Games’ latest venture, The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, had effectively plunged the studio into debt, it demonstrated just how much he and collaborator Kotaro…
Category: Games March 25, 2025 Designing the Iconic Liquid Metal T-1000 Terminator for Mortal Kombat 1 Joe Epstein, Combat Designer, NetherRealm Studios Do you think there’s a villain cooler than the T-1000? Get out of here, no you don’t. The T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day stands right on the intersection of early ‘90s cool,…
“No one told us to make any kind of game. We wanted to make this game.”. When Sony Computer Entertainment released Legend of Dragoon for the PS1 in the West in the early 2000s, several publications couldn’t help but compare it to Squaresoft’s popular Final Fantasy series. Gamespot’s Peter Bartholow, for example, suggested the game…
After the tantalising tidbit of information that AMD has carved out a 45% market share in Japan comes a much bigger bomb from the company’s CEO. Dr. Lisa Su says that the Radeon RX 9070 XT is bar far the best-selling AMD Radeon GPU ever and by a factor of 10. Yes, really. Is there…
We are once again reminding you to be careful out there, after users found another Steam game acting as a front for malware. This is the second game we’ve seen hiding malicious intent on Steam’s storefront this year, and though both games have been taken down, it’s worth being extra cautious around unknown listings. According…
At this year’s GDC event, Nvidia showcased all its latest RTX technologies, including Ace, its software suite of ‘digital human technologies.’ One of the first games to use it is Inzoi, a Sims-like game, and while chatting to Nvidia about it, I learned that the AI model takes up a surprising amount of VRAM, which…