Inzoi‘s early access launch last week was surrounded by a fair amount of skepticism, and that’s not without reason — it’s hard to compete with a series as massive in scope as The Sims. Now, after a busy launch weekend and multiple hotfixes, the game’s director wants to let hesitant players know that he’s committed…
At time of writing, SteamDB’s concurrent player ranking is led by the usual suspects: Counter-Strike 2 is commanding its expected lead with more than a million players while Dota 2 and the breakout drug-selling sim Schedule 1 follow behind. A bit farther down the list, however, is an unexpected title that hit its all-time peak…
The ZeniMax Workers United-CWA union has voted “overwhelmingly” to authorize union leadership to call for a strike if contract negotiations with Microsoft continue to drag on without resolution. ZeniMax Workers United, a part of the Communications Workers of America, was formed in January 2023 and was at the time the largest videogame union in the…
To the masses, April 1 is April Fools’ Day. To the studio behind Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, Clustertruck, and last year’s viral hit Content Warning, today is Landfall Day. Every Landfall Day, Landfall Games does something big, like put out a new DLC pack for TABS or surprise drop a totally new game. Last year’s…
Our quest to track down the developers of Jet Force Gemini’s cancelled Game Boy Color port. Jet Force Gemini may not be quite as popular as other Rare classic N64 titles like Banjo Kazooie or GoldenEye 007, but that hasn’t stopped it from developing something of a cult following online among those who have grown…
I wasn’t sure what to expect from my GDC 2025 preview appointment for Honor of Kings: World. It’s an upcoming action RPG MMO, a spinoff of Tencent’s mobile MOBA Honor of Kings—a game I’ve never played and rarely see mentioned in western games media, despite it being one of the best-grossing games of all time…
The Steam concurrents record for 25-year-old Valve game Ricochet has been blown out of the water by a group of players brought together by Half-Life fansite LambdaGeneration. Valve has made some of the most influential games of all time, but Ricochet probably can’t be put in that category. The arena combat game is best-known today…
Today sees the publication of Henk Rogers’ memoir, The Perfect Game—Tetris: From Russia With Love. Rogers has had a long and storied career in the games industry, but he will undoubtedly always be best-known for his association with Tetris, and in particular his leading role in extricating it from the Soviet bureaucracy and getting the…
Often dubbed as the “realistic Sims competitor” or even a potential “Sims killer,” in the weeks leading up to Inzoi‘s early access launch, quite a few life sim players made the game out to be a natural enemy of The Sims. Thanks to a recent interaction between the two games on social media, though, it…
I didn’t have a PSP when the original Patapon came out in 2007 but I did have access to one at my back-then job, which afforded me the opportunity to play around with it a bit. I don’t remember much about it except that it was quite good (and of course the relentless, rhythmic pata-pata-pata-pon…