Facepunch demanded that Rust players ‘Pivot or Die’ with its latest update to progression changes this month, and it’s not lookin’ too hot for solo survivors or small groups trying to pivot. Opting out of big clans on official servers has never been the easiest way to play Rust, but recent monument, scrap, and blueprint…
For everyone except Hasbro stockholders, Magic: The Gathering’s crossover era has produced notoriously mixed feelings: On one hand, that Lord of the Rings set was pretty excellent. On the other, there are now six Magic cards of Dwight Schrute from the Office—a truth with a terrible psychic weight. Magic: The Gathering’s next Secret Lair collaboration,…
The Vampire Survivors-like Megabonk is one of the big indie hits of the year, selling a million copies in just two weeks and earning a nomination for best debut indie game in The Game Awards 2025. That sort of exposure is a big deal, especially for a small indie release, but developer vedinad said they’re…
You may recall the sad case of Planet Centauri, an indie 2D sandbox game that spent more than a decade in development, amassed well over 130,000 wishlists, and then struggled to gain traction when the 1.0 release happened earlier this year because a bug in Steam prevented the it’s out announcement email from being sent…
This is an interview done by Galloping Ghost’s superstar and International Video Game Hall of Fame inductee Pete Hahn with World Champion Galaxian player, David Lyne. Pete Hahn: First of all, congrats again on your awesome achievement! How long was your entire entire 2 million+ point run, and how did you maintain concentration for such…
FOV 90 (Image credit: Future) Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every week, I’ll be covering a topic relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new. Project Misriah: Halo Ports, a collection of Counter-Strike 2 custom maps that recreate classic…
To paraphrase a legendary tweet about what FromSoftware games have done to modern videogame narratives: A story can just be some guy with a big sword who says, “Zanzibart… forgive me,” in his dying breath, and a bunch of YouTubers will make hour-long videos about it. And by “a bunch of YouTubers,” they mostly meant…
Today’s games have forgotten the lessons of history, according to veteran RPG developer and Fallout co-creator Tim Cain. In a YouTube video uploaded this week in response to a viewer who asked whether old games could offer any “lost wisdom” for today’s game developers and designers, Cain responded with an emphatic “Yes.” Today’s games, Cain…
We are bearing down on the final weeks of 2025, and somehow—somehow!—Baldur’s Gate 3, a game that released more than two years ago (more than five years ago, if you count the lengthy early access stretch) is still banging the table at The Game Awards. It’s reached the point where even developer Larian Studios seems…
The head of Google parent company Alphabet, Sunder Pichai, has given a new interview to the BBC in which he says fears of the AI bubble bursting may well be justified. “I think no company is going to be immune, including us,” said Pichai. We’ll return to the bubble, but the section of the interview…