“Performance optimization for Switch” and more. Following its December release, Nightdive Studios has now rolled out a new update for The Thing: Remastered on Switch and multiple other platforms. Here’s the full rundown, courtesy of the studio’s official website. As you can see, there’s even some “optimized performance” for the Switch version of the game:…
Microsoft has announced that it is getting out of the Kill-O-Vision headset business, more formally known as the US Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program. While the company’s “advanced cloud infrastructure and AI capabilities will continue to provide a robust backbone for the program,” responsibility for actually making the headsets and the software that…
Late last year, I played in a closed alpha playtest of Legacy: Steel & Sorcery, an upcoming extraction game pairing World of Warcraft-style high fantasy with third-person action combat. Over a couple of hours, I got an early taste of stringing together longbow headshots on skeletons, smashing wolves with maces, and panicked escapes as a…
As Benjamin Franklin famously wrote in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy in 1789, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death, taxes, and a bunch of Mortal Kombat reboots.” Benny Franks (as he was commonly called around the Continental Congress) wasn’t wrong: The Mortal Kombat game series has been rebooted…
The post-Disco Elysium world we live in is… complicated. Following the release of one of the biggest and most acclaimed RPGs to come along in years, developer ZA/UM imploded, and left its wake are splinters of the shell, each claiming they’re making a Disco Elysium “spiritual successor” and putting in some real effort to discredit…
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Doug Cockle is your favorite Geralt’s favorite Geralt. He’s been Mr. Rivia’s voice in all three of CD Projekt Red’s Witcher games and some spinoffs, becoming iconic enough through the trilogy that when Netflix’s first live action show was getting ready to air, then star Henry Cavill said he’d accidentally imitated Cockle’s version of Geralt…
A year after laying off 25% of its workforce in what it called “a company reset,” engine maker Unity has reportedly put even more people out of work. The layoffs were reported by multiple Unity employees on LinkedIn (via Game Developer) and while the number of people let go is currently unknown, a post on…
Category: Games Sid Meier’s Civilization VII on Xbox Reignites That ‘Just One More Turn’ Feeling Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Published February 11, 2025 I can’t remember the last time I was able to get started in a grand strategy game this quickly, but that’s what Sid Meier’s Civilization VII on Xbox Series X|S has…
Summary Undying is available today. Help Anling and Cody survive the zombie apocalypse. A unique blend of heartfelt narrative, survival, and RPG gameplay. A Journey of Love and Survival Comes to Xbox Hello, Xbox players! I’m David Brevik, President and Executive Producer at Skystone Games. As someone who has spent decades creating and supporting games…