Slack, the cloud-based chat platform used by individuals and companies around the world to communicate, collaborate, and say “holy shit” to each other when interesting or stupid things happen, is down. And yes, for those of you who, like us, use Slack for professional purposes, that means nobody’s watching and you can now safely make…
Category: PC Gaming Undermine(d): How World of Warcraft’s New Update Added Driveable (and Driftable) Vehicles Mark KeladaAssistant Lead Quest Designer, Blizzard Entertainment Published February 26, 2025 Summary One of the lead developers for Undermine(d) joins us to talk about the latest chapter for World of Warcraft. This new city is unlike any we’ve seen before…
“If one day Nintendo wants to knock on our door”. Davide Soliani, the creative mind behind Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle and Sparks of Hope, left Ubisoft last year and formed his own indie studio, Day 4 Night, with the help of Red Dead Redemption’s Christian Cantamessa and composer extraordinaire Grant Kirkhope. Now, in an…
“Our priority remains delivering on past commitments”. With plenty of physical game lovers resisting the shift to digital distribution, the world of boutique, limited-press publishing is booming, with multiple options for anyone desperate to have smaller-scale releases on disc or cartridge rather than a hard drive or SD card. It’s a risky business, though, with…
Category: ID@Xbox February 26, 2025 Indie Selects for February: Fill Your Hearts (and Game Libraries) with Joy Raymond Estrada, Déron Mann, Jessica Ronnell, Diarmuid Murphy – ID@Xbox Matchmakers This February, let the ID@Xbox team set the vibe. In this, the month of Valentine’s Day, indie game developers are competing to be your next love –…
Yesterday, Warner Bros announced it was closing Monolith Productions in a “strategic change of direction”. A studio with a 30-year legacy, Monolith’s games include Blood, No One Lives Forever, Tron 2.0, Condemned: Criminal Origins, and more recently its excellent Middle-earth tie-ins Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War, which introduced the remarkable Nemesis System. Amid…
The Nvidia RTX 50-series has been hobbled by all kinds of problems, least of which being low stocks and resultant high prices. So when there was talk of missing ROPs in some of the new GPUs, it seemed like little more than nasty icing on an under-baked cake. However, if what founder and CEO of…
Includes comic, poster, art cards, and more. A new physical edition of Stardew Valley is available for purchase now via Fangamer, with both standard and deluxe editions on offer. Priced at $35, the standard edition comes with a double-sided cover and a gorgeous 18-page instruction manual, but the $59 deluxe edition is truly something special….
I suspect not many videogames have officially licensed fungus, but it certainly makes sense for Avowed, an RPG where you spend 50 hours in the shoes of a hero who has mushrooms growing out of their face. Thanks to a company called North Spore, you can now own your own little piece of the Dreamscourge,…
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