It’s a normal day in my tavern. A talking skeleton has lurched in and is standing at the bar inquiring about a job. A pale white octopus is swimming through the swamp to deliver my order of potatoes and rat meat. I’m using arcane magic to peer into the future to gain some extremely important…
Words change meaning at lightning speed in the modern memetic internet era; if you’re over the age of 30 and not terminally online, Gen Z / Alpha lingo is probably going to lose you somewhere between “cap” and “six-seven.” Slang may spread faster these days, but on the flip side, here’s a piece of trivia…
Over 100 jobs in the UK are potentially affected. Reports have emerged that Square Enix is the latest video game company to be hit with layoffs today, with job cuts across “nearly all areas” outside of Japan including roles in sales, marketing, and publishing. VGC broke the news earlier today and reports that Square Enix…
With the release of its latest quarterly financial results, Square Enix published a progress report on its “Square Enix Reboots and Awakens” medium-term business plan. Initiated last year, the three-year plan aims to overhaul the company’s game development and publishing strategy. In the progress report, Square Enix announced that, as part of its efforts to…
Grand Theft Auto 6 still hasn’t been confirmed for PC, and Take-Two announced today that it’s going to take longer than expected to come to consoles as well: Instead of launching on May 26, 2026 as planned, the game is now slated for release on November 19 . “Grand Theft Auto 6 will now release…
Starbreeze recently handed Payday 2 off to a new studio, Sidetrack Games, so it can focus its efforts on salvaging the mess that is Payday 3. Whether Payday 3 can be saved is a wide open question, but as a new trailer for an entirely different game makes painfully clear, it sure doesn’t look good…
Just three days after Greg Street confirmed that Fantastic Pixel Castle is closing due to the loss of NetEase funding, yet another NetEase-backed studio says it’s suffered the same fate. Bad Brain Game Studios, founded in 2023 and headed up by former Ubisoft Toronto lead producer Sean Crooks, announced today that it will close its…
What a strange time to be alive: Netflix and production company A24 are reportedly turning messy co-op cooking romp Overcooked into a reality competition, and I’m not going to immediately assume it will be terrible. Videogame adaptations don’t suck now, you may have noticed, and while I’m sure there are still plenty of TV execs…
Category: ID@Xbox November 6, 2025 An Inside Scoop of the Boxes: Lost Fragments Development Process Emil Spasov, Game Designer, Big Loop Studios Summary Come behind the scenes with Big Loop Studios. Focus on intricate mechanical puzzles and beautiful design. Developed over 30 months with major late-stage improvements. What if every puzzle you solved revealed another…
Fantasy management sim Tavern Keeper has only been out on Steam for three days but it goes back a ways—quite a long ways. Developer Greenheart Games, maker of 2013’s Game Dev Tycoon, has been working on its pub sim for more than a decade. Looks like all that hard work has finally paid off: Tavern…