It’s hard to believe I’m writing this in the year 2025 CE, but I’ve double-checked and it sure seems to be right so here we go: The Epic Games Store now supports preloading. “Preloading is now available for PC pre-purchase products on the Epic Games Store!” developer Local Bald wrote in the Epic Games Store…
NetherRealm audio director Dan Forden has left the studio after 15 years, where he’s worked since its founding in April 2010—although since NetherRealm was a rebadged Midway Chicago, it’s perhaps more accurate to say that he’s left after 36 years. Forden’s first game credit, for sound, is on the 1989 Midway arcade basketball game Arch…
Meta has announced Vibes, a new feed of AI-created videos that will sit “at the centre of the Meta AI app” and force endless AI slop videos into your eyes until you can take no more. I just scrolled through it for a few minutes and saw meaningless junk including a toddler getting chased by…
There is, I think, no greater faux pas in our image-obsessed society than trying too hard. Anything too obviously keen to impress, too overbearing in its affect, is intolerable whether quality or not. We want sprezzatura, elegance, and honesty, not to be hit over the head by someone very clearly trying to extract some very…
Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM has unionized. In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, representatives of the studio’s new Workers’ Alliance, as well as company president Ed Tomaszewski, announced the formation of the union and its voluntary recognition by studio management. The announcement comes as ZA/UM has finally started showing off its second game, the upcoming spy RPG…
September sure was chock full o’ city builders, but wait, there’s more! October has a treat in store for all you aspiring mayors, too: survival city builder Farthest Frontier is busting out of early access and going full version 1.0 later this month. This is excellent news for two reasons. First, even from its earliest…
Frictional Games, the videogame horrorsmiths responsible for the Penumbra, Amnesia, and SOMA games, is teasing something new—and yes, as you might expect, it looks creepy as hell. The clip that appeared yesterday on YouTube, entitled Frictional_Next_Project.mp4, is actually the culmination of an ARG that, as laid out by Polygon, began last week with a small…
Crawl through dungeons and learn Japanese in Shujinkou. 2025 has been an absolutely stacked year for video games — Hades II, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Clair Obscur, Donkey Kong Bananza, and Split Fiction are just a few games that have picked up over a 90 average on OpenCritic. But until Hades II arrived, there was a…
And it’s coming to Switch this month. Onion Games has shared the Western release date for Stray Children, a childlike RPG where a young boy is transported into the world of a retro RPG and encounters a world where only children live. And it’s finally coming out in the West on 30th October 2025. If…
As reported by GamesRadar, Larian studio head and Baldur’s Gate 3 director Swen Vincke has taken to Twitter to remark on the state of the industry following Microsoft’s Game Pass price hike and EA’s purchase by private equity and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, a deal that seems destined to bury Baldur’s Gate…