Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek, who left the company in 2017 and whose credits include the Half-Life 2 episodes, Portal, Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, has taken aim at Epic over the latest round of swingeing layoffs imposed by the company. Over 1000 people are out of a job, while…
Whatever else one can say about Elon Musk, the guy employs some incredibly talented engineers, and the latest update from the Neuralink project is like something from the future. A major goal for Neuralink is improving the lives of people with severe disabilities up to full-body paralysis, and now the 18th participant (in what is…
Bit Reactor’s long-rumored Star wars tactics game, Zero Company, finally got a formal reveal last year, but we still didn’t know many details about this Clone Wars-era black ops story—until now. I got about 4.5 hours of hands-on time with Zero Company, plus several interviews with the dev team—you can read my full write up…
The Kickstarter for Annalog only launched on Tuesday, but the NES game has already achieved its initial $7000 goal and then some. The Retro Room Games has confirmed that it has hit its first stretch goal of $10,000 with 28 days left to go in the campaign. Backers are now guaranteed to receive their…
The new project from Ryu Ga Gotoku was given an airing at today’s Xbox Partner Preview showcase. Formerly known as Project Century, part of what attracted me to Stranger than Heaven when it was shown last year was that it seemed to be disconnected from the Yakuza / Like a Dragon series, which is something…
It’s the end of the line for the excellent vampire survival game V Rising: Not quite two years after release, developer Stunlock Studios says “the journey to Dracula is a complete one as it stands,” and no further content updates are planned. The good news is that it’s working on something new instead, set in…
Supergiant isn’t done with Hades 2 yet. In a surprisingly spicy new trailer for the action RPG’s console release, eagle-eyed fans caught a glimpse of a scene they’ve never seen before. That scene will be part of the “bonus content and quality-of-life improvements” update coming to PC alongside the console release on April 14, Supergiant…
Dig it up this August. 2026 is a good year for spooky farm sims, and Perfect Garbage’s Grave Seasons will be bringing a fresh twist to the genre when it launches on Switch on 14th August 2026. Published by Blumhouse Games, Grave Seasons might look like a cute little pixel art farm sim where you…
We’ve seen it happen plenty in Hollywood: two movies released at almost the same time about the same thing. Armageddon and Deep Impact in 1998, The Prestige and The Illusionist in 2006, Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down in 2013, just to name a few. Games aren’t immune to this trend either, I guess:…
It was 31 years ago, somehow, that Bart Simpson uttered his classic Christmas wish: Buy me Bonestorm or go to hell! A lot’s changed since then, including our capacity for interactive violence and ironic hyperbole, which leads me to my point: Rebellion unveiled its new game during today’s Xbox showcase, a first-person sci-fi horror romp…