In the latest example of ‘I don’t understand business,’ Splash Damage, which just three months ago made major layoffs so it could “remain agile and adaptable in what has been a very challenging market,” has acquired Gamepires, the maker of the open world survival game Scum. The acquisition, backed by Emona Capital and part of…
Find My Frogs was one of my favorite games of 2025, a late-year discovery that absolutely charmed me with what I firmly believe is the most chill, hypnotically relaxing gaming experience I’ve ever had. The sequel, Find My Frogs: Branches, is basically more of the same—a “cozy hidden object game” with hundreds of frogs living…
It’s been a long time since Path of Exile has touched its lauded Atlas of Worlds system, an endgame progression track where you fight through increasingly difficult maps and bosses. Ever since it was introduced 10 years ago, it’s been the main thing that keeps people playing for hundreds of hours every season. It’s been…
My first minutes with the Marathon server slam were less than ideal. Immediately upon seeing a menu, my mouse cursor began to stutter, menus opened and closed randomly on their own, and basic inventory management was impossible without switching to controller. Apparently I’m not the only one, because Bungie has issued a statement on mouse…
Yesterday, New York state attorney general Letitia James announced that the state of New York had opened a lawsuit against Valve, accusing the Steam developer of violating gambling laws by “letting children and adults illegally gamble” via “addictive and harmful” loot box mechanics. Contained within New York’s 52-page court filing detailing its investigation into Valve’s…
It’s a story we’ve seen a lot this decade: An experienced videogame developer becomes fatigued by ballooning team sizes and meetings about monetization strategy, and then strikes out on their own to start a smaller studio with funding from private investors and companies like NetEase. In this case, it’s Christofer Sundberg, co-founder of Just Cause…
Marathon looks pretty groovy, but it’s got one big problem and it goes by the name of Arc Raiders. Embark’s narrative-driven sci-fi extraction shooter is really good, and really popular, and it stole Marathon’s thunder in a big way—to the point that it influenced some of the design changes Bungie made to the game in…
I’ll lay out my tastes straight away. I’m a little more… Garden Warfare than Modern Warfare. A little more Team Fortress than Quake. A little more silly string than regular string. What I love more than any individual, artfully designed videogame is the slapstick party version that inevitably rises in the wake of its success….
Resident Evil’s Umbrella Corporation has filed a fictional copyright infringement lawsuit against Nissin Foods, the Japanese giant best-known for its ramen noodles and the Cup Noodles brand (thanks, Automaton). As per the Japanese Resident Evil social media accounts, the Umbrella Corporation claims that Cup Noodles bear striking similarities to Umbrella Noodles, an in-game Easter egg…
Whether you want them for the unlimited ammo, or to turn Leon into your dress-up doll, getting the cat ears in Resident Evil 4 Remake is a pretty difficult task. You might nope out of the challenge when you hear it involves playing on the Professional difficulty, but it’s not as hard as it initially…