Tactical or tacti-cool, that is the real question when it comes to cosmetics in modern FPS games—or, maybe, the secret third answer: completely absurd and silly collaborations or celebrities, like most of the recent ones in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, which is odd considering I thought it was supposed to be a Cold…
Can I have them back please? Of all the horror franchises I’ve subjected myself to over the years, Fatal Frame is the one that sticks in my mind most as properly, actually, scary. It’s the answer I’ll give every single time to the question of what game series has scared me the most, and it’s…
Category: Games October 22, 2025 How Ember Knights was Built from the Ground Up for Co-op Brad Evans, Chief Operating Officer, Doom Turtle Summary Great co-op starts with great combat. That’s why we built Ember Knights around fast-paced, responsive hack-and-slash gameplay from day one. Designing for synergy changes everything. We reworked weapons, skills and relics…
Call me a nerd if you must, but I often think about the Apple Vision Pro. The VR/AR headset was a rare misstep from the company, a device that was subject to immediate ridicule upon its release primarily thanks to the fact it looked like a pair of SCUBA goggles, and came with a ludicrous…
Windows 10 may be essentially an ex-operating system, but that doesn’t mean Microsoft has relinquished its appetite for really ancient code. For proof, look no further than the icons contained within the antediluvian pifmgr.dll file that lives on in Windows 11 to this day. According to this blog post on the Microsoft Dev site by…
I’m sure we have plenty to actually thank AI for, but DDR4 pricing isn’t one of those things. For a long time, DDR4 RAM was cheap enough to be worth consideration if you were looking to build a budget gaming PC. But judging from some recent charts shared by semiconductor analyst Ray Wang, DDR4 pricing…
False start! There’s less than 24 hours to go before we get another 60-minute dose of Kirby Air Riders info from Masahiro Sakurai himself, but someone’s a little keen to get off the start line, it seems, as the legendary game designer has already lifted the lid on some new footage. As shared on the…
Katamari is a perfect example of a series I go through phases of being obsessed with playing, sort of like the Minecraft itch most people get for a few months a year. With that said, the last time I found myself utterly consumed by the story of the Prince and the King of the Cosmos…
James Mielke reflects on the Team Ninja creator who treated him as a brother. Years ago, after knowing each other for over 20 years, Tomonobu Itagaki —of his own accord— updated his Facebook profile and adjusted his relationship to me to be an “older brother.” He meant it in that Vin “I don’t have friends,…
My gosh, has it been a year already? Time just flies when you’ve been playing fantastic games like Citizen Sleeper 2, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and Blue Prince. These are all games our esteemed Council of industry veterans put on the Most Wanted list last year, but they’re old news now, and it’s time to…