Sjoerd De Jong, an Unreal Engine expert from its early days who joined Epic Games full-time in 2014—first as “lead evangelist” and most recently as the senior director of an unannounced project—has left the company, he revealed last week in a LinkedIn post. “After 27 years of Unreal Engine, and 12 years at Epic Games…
Morrowind, the gloomiest and mushroomiest of all the Elder Scrolls games, is getting on in years—and it was never the most polished game in town, even upon its release a whopping 24 years ago. If you’re sick of those rough edges, you need look no further than OpenMW, a fanmade open-source engine which makes the…
Obsidian Entertainment, developer of Fallout: New Vegas, Avowed, and The Outer Worlds, is being sued in a class action lawsuit that alleges it “engaged in a systematic pattern of wage and hour violations under the California Labor Code and Industrial Welfare Commission (‘IWC’) Wage Orders.” As reported by GamesRadar, the case has been ongoing since…
Earlier this year, Pen & Sword Books released The History of the Pokémon Games, which I reviewed here. At the same time, they released the much less obviously marketable The History of Silent Hill by Samantha Morris. Similar titles notwithstanding, these are very different books. While the Pokémon volume functions primarily as a sort…
It’s not very often I get to see my love of rock music and my love of videogame music intersect in interesting ways. But almost every single time I do, one game can be found at the core—Final Fantasy 14. Critical Hit (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Critical Hit, where I (or someone else on…
I remember when Klei’s self-explanatory classic Don’t Starve came out, survival-crafting games as we know them now felt new and novel. “Surely this is a passing fad,” I must have thought. Well, my adolescent hot takes aged about as well as a Beefalo steak in the hot sun—Don’t Starve Together is bigger than ever, having…
Since the advent of generative AI and contemporary chatbots, there’s been endless debate about the ethics of using them in gamedev. But how does AI measure up through a purely pragmatic, business-minded lens? According to a blog from Game Oracle written by market data analyst Ross Burton, stigma around the technology can ward off prospective…
Disk Cleanup (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” Bryce Clark, game director on Poppy Playtime,…
Issue #37 – June 2026. Well, hello there. Have you come to see what’s in the Nintendo Life Mailbox this month? Excellent timing. Having survived the first weeks of June and the deluge of gaming announcements — including the first full-fat Nintendo Direct since September last year — we’re all settling down for the summer…
I needed no further incentive to check out this video that explores why a SimCity game set in the United Kingdom wouldn’t work, but even if the idea of comparing metropolitan systems of government isn’t thrilling to you, you’re going to want to watch it just to see who crops up at the end. It’s…