Alice creator American McGee has been in something of a chatty mood lately. Just a couple days after relating a tale about how he drew inspiration from a Valve demo he saw while working on Quake 2 at id, he shared another story about Alice: Madness Returns, offering a fun glimpse into game dev financing,…
A little while back, I decided to make some shorts that show parts of a cover, backside and the game and see if you can guess what it is before the reveal at the end. I never thought I would ever do 100 of them. I finally posted the 100th video (see below). It has…
I think I broke Vampire Crawlers. And I don’t mean that in the tee-hee, I’m exaggerating just a little bit way. I know that Vampire Crawlers is all about making crazy builds with stacking stat buffs and strong synergies that can clear encounters in seconds, just like Vampire Survivors. But I think I’ve cracked the…
I last played now-beloved MMO Final Fantasy 14 in 2014, when it was only a few months old—not counting those first few aborted years prior to its relaunch as A Realm Reborn. I thought it was okay at the time, but it cemented itself as one of the genre’s all-time greats with its next few…
If you needed any further proof of the terrifying cultural potency of Leon S. Kennedy, here it is: Resident Evil Requiem has sold over 7 million copies in just under two months. The latest in a string of Capcom sales successes, the milestone makes Requiem the fastest-selling Resident Evil game to date. While Capcom hasn’t…
One of the biggest surprises of Steam’s most recent Next Fest was Far Far West, a robot wizard cowboy co-op FPS with some yeehaw-worthy gunslinging and spellcasting that earned it a place among the event’s top five most-played demos. Far Far West is now days away from its early access launch after its demo earned…
The mouse has gone gold. Yacht Club Games has been pretty tight-lipped about its upcoming Game Boy-inspired, Zelda-style adventure Mina the Hollower, which is due to launch in spring 2026. But the developer has revealed today that the game has finally gone Gold. So while we’re approaching the end of that spring 2026 window, it…
Sometimes I think I would be better off if I was one of those people who only likes one action RPG. But, sadly, I’m cursed to enjoy both Path of Exile 2 and Diablo 4, which means I’m forced to juggle both when they drop new stuff in the same month. Diablo 4’s shadow-dropp of…
I have to issue a mea culpa: Almost exactly three years ago, I reported on a performance improvement update for the excellent indie RPG Dread Delusion. The performance was improved, but it was not improved enough. After my initial excitement, I found the game’s inconsistent framerates unbearably brutal, and I exclusively played on desktop. But…
The Fable reboot in development at Playground Games is, understandably, going to usher in some changes to the series that was last seen in 2010. One of the most notable is an overhaul of the game’s morality system. In the Fable of old, doing good would eventually result in a halo hovering over your head,…