Former Riot Games vice president Greg Street, who left the company in 2023 and launched a new NetEase-backed studio called Fantastic Pixel Castle, says the partnership with NetEase is coming to an end, and that the studio will likely close if a new publisher can’t be found. Street delivered the bad news in a message…
Sick of Borderlands 4’s chatty characters? Just want to press ahead and get to the shooting? Wish you could hammer a button to speed through their dialogue like you can in most other games? Good news! A courageous modder has created a dialogue-skip mod. Whatever you do, don’t ever use it. That’s not me telling…
You ever thought the Rubik’s Cube needs a 21st-century iPad kid glow up? Me neither, and yet the $299 WowCube is now officially available to preorder. The Rubik’s WowCube comes with 24 LCD screens and an AI-based application that tracks the time you’ve spent playing with it, alongside the number of twists you’ve made. The…
War is hell. Also, war is irresistible. That’s if Battlefield 6’s launch concurrents, which smashed past GTA 5, Among Us, Starfield, and other heavy-hitters to become the 20th most-played game in SteamDB’s records about, uh, 25 minutes after launching. As I write this, the game sits at a current and all-time peak of 521,000 concurrent…
Intel recently spilled the beans on its upcoming Panther Lake CPU architecture, which seems to be an iterative improvement over previous designs, plus the promise of being built on a new process node, 18A. But in case you’ve wondered about some of the broader design choices that went into the last couple of generations plus…
With so much of our personal and professional lives stored in the cloud, it’s easy to forget just how fragile these systems can be. Don’t misunderstand, I enjoy the convenience of my important files being accessible from almost anywhere—but I back up the really important stuff at least twice on physical media nowhere near the…
Josh Sawyer has been making games professionally for 26 years. What started as a hobby, making and playing tabletop RPGs, has grown into a storied career. Sawyer had his first position in 1999 working at Black Isle Studios, and now serves as studio design director at Obsidian, where he led development on games like Fallout:…
Classic RPGs make up some of the most formative examples of late ’90s to early 2000s PC gaming in my memory, but I also remember when they weirdly disappeared. If you loved games like the original Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale, or Planescape, and also wondered why we stopped seeing these kinds of titles for a…
I thought I’d heard every bit of corpo-speak going at this point in my career, but apparently I was wrong. AI code review platform Graphite has published a blog detailing its use of “dogfooding” to help develop its onboarding process, a particularly ugly term that apparently equates to “being forced to eat your own dogfood”….
I don’t know why, but there’s nothing more tactical and cool than an MP5, and in Battlefield 6, that’s the PW5A3. Not to be confused with the much faster firing PW7A2, based on the MP7, the best BF6 PW5A3 loadout is just a tad slower and more methodical. The PW5A3 is certainly a strong early…