Roblox is to become the first major gaming platform where facial age verification will be mandatory to access any chat features. In 2024, the platform averaged over 80 million players a day, approximately 40% of whom are under 13 years of age. The news was announced by the company’s chief safety officer, Matt Kaufman, who…
Tanks for the memories. Hamster Corporation’s Arcade Archives series is back with another cabinet classic on Switch 2. I got to check out Jet Ski racer Aqua Jet back in August, which was a lovingly crafted port. This time I’m revisiting the destructive tank combat of Namco’s Tokyo Wars, which served as inspiration for The…
Category: Games November 19, 2025 How Friendship and Duality Are at the Heart of SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide Lillian Salvadori, Marketing Manager, SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide Summary SpongeBob and Patrick are longtime BFFs, but strikingly opposite in their approach to challenges. While SpongeBob is an agile karate king, Patrick can manipulate…
Category: Games November 19, 2025 Building a Vibe: The Making of Delta Force’s Newest Map, Monument Joe Meng, PR & Communications Manager, Team Jade Delta Force has been out on Xbox Series X|S for a little more than three months. Available for free, the game provides three distinctive modes for players of various taste palette:…
Half-Life 3 fever has been running hot this week, for reasons—and I use that term loosely—we laid out here, which can very generally be described as “it’s November and we’re all a little bored and restless.” One small bit of pseudo-evidence did catch my eye, though: As PC Gamer’s freest man Tyler Wilde noted, “Geoff…
//Body CD Projekt Red is on a big recruitment push at the moment as it scales up development of its next big RPG projects. Just last week, the Polish developer nabbed one of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2‘s lead designers to lend their quest-crafting skills to The Witcher 4. Now, it’s hired the former narrative lead…
The best guns in Arc Raiders are a surprisingly subjective thing. As objectively powerful as the Anvil is, and I do love it, I won’t hide the fact that I think I actually prefer using the common Ferro instead. My favourite weapon so far, though, has to be the Stitcher; it’s a breeze to use…
Old School RuneScape has been around for, oh, about 12 years now, and in all that time it’s never gotten a new skill. Players have been working with—and making great sport of—the set of skills it inherited from the original RuneScape, which itself last got a new skill (that’d be Hunter) all the way back…
It’s been just under a week since Arc Raiders players were let loose in the claustrophobic corridors of Stella Montis, and what a week it’s been. To celebrate the successful update, Embark Studios gave us a little look into how the action has played out. “Congrats to every Raider who staked their claim on Stella…
The games in the Kitfox publishing stable have a long history of producing beautifully absurd patch notes and bug reports thanks to the absurd intricacies of their systems and simulations. Dwarf Fortress has been responsible for classics like “Undead dwarf contracted were-chameleon curse” and “Cats dying for no reason – alcohol poisoning?” Shortly before its…