2025

Krafton has confirmed another round of layoffs at Callisto Protocol developer Striking Distance Studios, but says it remains operational and that the cuts will not impact any projects currently in the works. The layoffs were first reported late last week by multiple former employees on LinkedIn: One said “most of the devs were laid off,”…

Now that The Sims 2 is kinda-sorta playable again on modern machines, you might expect it to be perfect right out of the digital box; its rich simulation of the modern day-to-day (circa 2004, anyway) is among the best you can find. But let’s just lay it out there: these sims are a bunch of…

Just last week, it was discovered that Nvidia’s shiny new RTX 50 series cards had axed support entirely for 32-bit software, which hit old-school physics engine software PhysX. Now, in order to run some games better, gamers are taking to installing secondary graphics cards to get a healthy fps boost (and in one case, just…

Inzoi is looming ever closer, and with it the first real competition The Sims has had, well, ever. Krafton’s take on the life sim genre looks like it’ll be the closest we get to EA’s scope and scale for a good while. Despite that, director Hyungjun Kim doesn’t view his game as a rival. “We…

I’ve always had a hope, ever since I was little—that I would, someday, be able to run really fast and hit a rock and break all of my bones. Okay, that’s not the exact dream, but as a mentally hyperactive kid with a strong imagination, I did spend a lot of my car journeys running…

Microsoft has announced a delay to the Playground-developed Fable reboot, which had been scheduled for this year but will now arrive at an unspecified date in 2026. The publisher did provide a sweetener of sorts by also releasing a brief new look at the game, which Xbox Game Studios head Craig Duncan says will be…

Last night, Marvel Rivals’ servers went down. After confirming the issue, NetEase took a bit of time to figure things out and implement a fix. After all was said and done, it took less than an hour, but even still, players have been given some Marvel bux for the inconvenience. “As a token of our…

Not long after mentioning how much I needed more good spy games in my life, I was given a heads up (via a dead drop, naturally) about the Spy Video Game Rendezvous, a dev-organised Steam festival showcasing spy-themed games, kicking off on May 23. Hosted by There’s Always a Madman solo dev Sunny Demeanor Games,…

The Asus ROG Destrier Core is one of the latest products to hit the premium gaming chair market, with the company offering a core and premium version of the gaming chair. For review purposes, the company sent me the core version of the chair to test. Retailing at $630/£500, the Asus ROG Destrier Core is…