Heart Machine, the developer of the Hyper Light games and Possessor(s), has laid off “nearly everyone at the studio” following the collapse of a deal with an unnamed publisher for funding of its next project. “I have very difficult news today,” studio founder Alx Preston wrote on LinkedIn. “We had been working on an unannounced…
Have you heard the rumor that Bungie is looking to somehow merge Destiny and Marathon into a single series? I’ll admit that I hadn’t, until Marathon creative director Julia Nardin took to X to say flat-out that it’s not true. “As someone who’s worked on both Destiny and Marathon, I can confirm that the ‘leak’…
Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil movie comes out this week on September 18, and the early reviews have just dropped. It’s good news for games and horror fans: it sounds like just about everyone likes it, with more than one reviewer calling it the best videogame adaptation ever made. (That’s a pretty low bar, but still.)…
MindsEye developer Build a Rocket Boy (BARB) appears to have undergone another round of layoffs, and these latest cuts could be fatal, as multiple people have indicated that all remaining employees are being let go. BARB has been struggling since the release of its startlingly bad (yet still strangely entertaining) action-thriller MindsEye in 2025, a…
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World of Warcraft: Forever is a new branch of the MMO that’s making its debut this week in a month-long beta before the whole thing drops in November. It will be the first opportunity to experience some of the new quests, dungeons, and class abilities that Blizzard has added to a version of the MMO…
My name is Kristina, I work at the indie studio Hyper Games. We’re based in Norway, so you can be sure we know a lot about snow, which is great with our upcoming cozy adventure game, Moomintroll: Winter’s Warmth. It is our second Moomin game and it is coming to PlayStation 5 on September 18….
Which do you prefer? It’s almost been a week, and we’re still thinking about that Ocarina of Time deep dive Direct. The new details are one thing (hello, Goggles of Truth!), but it’s the visuals that are stuck in our minds. It all looks so shiny, so crisp, so… different. Of course, it’s hardly a…
Los Santos Customs I’m modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I’ve done to Rockstar’s baby, or check out what I got up to earlier. You might have heard…
I’m just not sure about that ‘Extreme Green’ colour… Retro Fighters has iterated on its core range of controllers so many times I’m honestly in danger of losing track; when the Brawler64 Pro ($69.99) sample arrived in the office, I was certain I’d covered a similar pad not so long ago (and I had –…