New York state attorney general Letitia James announced on X and Bluesky today that the state of New York is opening a lawsuit against Valve for violating the state’s gambling laws through its games. In the brief post, James says Valve has “made billions of dollars by letting children and adults illegally gamble for the…
The leadership overhaul at Ubisoft appears to have claimed another Assassin’s Creed stalwart, as Ubisoft has confirmed a VGC report that longtime veteran Clint Hocking, who was heading up the Assassin’s Creed Hexe project, has left the company. “Clint Hocking, creative director on Assassin’s Creed Codename Hexe, will be departing Ubisoft,” a spokesperson said in…
Reactions to large game updates always come in two phases: the “wow cool” phase that plays out as folks try out the major new stuff, and the “hey wait a minute” phase that follows once players realize the consequences of the patch notes’ fine print. The “hey wait a minute” moment for Arc Raiders’ Shrouded…
Far Far West sounds like videogame premise Mad Libs: You play as a posse of gunslinging cowboy wizards who deploy from a flying train to complete randomized missions with objectives like firing a nuclear missile at a giant spectral necromancer while blasting ranks of skeletons. It’s a shooter imagined through free association, but Far Far…
Remaking one of the most influential games of all time? Capcom’s a bold one. But I guess fortune really does favor the bold, as the Resident Evil 4 Remake was the fastest game in the series to sell 10 million copies. Oh, and it’s also pretty dang good. So good, I forgive it for cutting…
Just five months after the early access release of the Skate reboot, Electronic Arts is “transforming” development studio Full Circle so it can “better support Skate’s long-term future and focus the team on the things that matter most to you.” And yes, let there be no doubt, that means layoffs. “These shifts mean making changes…
Every cozy gamer’s got one: that one little indie game that you fall in love with at first sight and immediately decide to not shut up about because you believe not nearly enough people have discovered it yet. I found my new darling in this week’s Steam Next Fest: an adorable sandbox crafting game full…
Another Re9uiem out of RequiTEN? Capcom is truly treating us Switch 2 owners this week, as it releases not only Resident Evil Biohazard and Village on the new hardware, but also the brand new Requiem. Yep, that’s on the same day as other platforms! All of these launch on 27th February (a Pokémon Day surprise,…
Amanita Design is one of my long-standing favorites. It was the studio’s 2009 robot adventure Machinarium that hooked me, but Botanicula, the Samorost games, the madcap Chuchel—they’re all brilliantly creative works. So when I saw that a demo for its next game, Phonopolis, had dropped into the Steam Next Fest, I was all over it….
Director Paul W. S. Anderson, who helmed the likes of Mortal Kombat (1995), Resident Evil (2002), and Monster Hunter (2021), has just done a new interview on Chris Plante’s (excellent) podcast Post Games. It’s a lengthy and enjoyable listen, and Anderson speaks at some length about the thought process behind that first Resident Evil movie…