Tyler Wilde, US EIC (Image credit: Future) Tyler just wants RAM to be a normal price again, please. “They think that we are mentally ill,” says a ChatGPT user in one of many Reddit threads lamenting OpenAI’s decision to retire its GPT-4o chatbot. The replacement model, GPT-5.2, is “abusive,” says another. They want their old…
I hope you own some heavy boots, because hurricanes are coming to an Arc Raiders map near you. As part of the Shrouded Sky update coming February 24, the new map condition will send thrashing winds and low cloud cover across existing maps. Similar to the Cold Snap condition, hurricanes will challenge players to limit…
Stop Killing Games has come a long way in the two years since YouTuber Ross Scott got mad about Ubisoft’s destruction of The Crew in 2024. The short version is, he won: 1.3 million people signed the group’s petition, mandating its consideration by the European Union, and while Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot reminded us all…
Throughout 2024 I’ve been keeping you up to date about Golden Code’s awesome looking Danmaku shooter of ‘MEGA MILV’. A game that doesn’t just feature decent graphics, but more bullets and lasers than you can handle all running on a stock A1200 or above. As in the words of the creator “Real bullet hell on…
As the Trump administration works to strain every one of America’s diplomatic relationships, its European allies are being forced to reevaluate their reliance on American military aid and equipment—equipment like the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II multi-role strike fighter that’s currently or planned to be operated by 14 European militaries who will, theoretically, be relying…
Opus Magnum, a stellar 2017 puzzle game about building alchemical devices, is getting a surprise new DLC campaign. Opus Magnum: De Re Metallica will release on March 17, and adds three prequel chapters to the game with a total of 17 new puzzles, new cutscenes and music, and new glyphs (machine components). It’s “around half…
Nerial is the French indie studio behind Card Shark and the Reigns series, and not immediately the team you would pick for a Witcher game—unless it was a singleplayer Gwent story like Thronebreaker perhaps. Instead, Nerial is adapting the Reigns series to Geralt’s adventures, having had what they call “great success” with a Game of…
Category: ID@Xbox February 19, 2026 How Soulslinger’s Indie Team Brought Custom Mocap to Xbox Ede Tarsoly, Founder of Elder Games Summary Hungarian indie studio, Elder Games, employed an at-home mocap setup. Hundreds of animations performed by the studio’s founder and his wife. Arrives today on Xbox Series X|S. Hey, I’m Ede Tarsoly, the Founder of…
A little over a week into Diablo 2’s first expansion in 25 years and people have already figured out how to break the new warlock class. By most accounts, warlocks are easily the strongest class in the game for how easy it is to put together a devastating build, but YouTuber Coooley wanted something better…
Did you feel that? The echoing reverberation of thousands of collective hours of roguelike deckbuilding thudding into place ahead of us on the timestream? That’s because Slay the Spire 2 just locked in its early access release on March 5, and—surprise—it’s bringing four player co-op on launch day. I’ll give you a moment to rotate…