Godot has been suffering from a slop problem. In February, the maintainers of the open source game engine, which powers games like Slay the Spire 2 and The Case of the Golden Idol, said they were deliberating how to address a rising tide of AI slop pull requests, which had become “increasingly draining and demoralizing”…
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Visionary artist Viktor Antonov defined a small but unforgettable selection of games with his unmistakably bold visual style, including Half-Life 2, Dishonored, Wolfenstein: The New Order, and Weird West. (He also did Redneck Rampage, but that was way back when.) He died in 2025 at just 52 years old, but before his tragic passing he…
Arm chips are making increasing inroads into the realm of PC gaming. Valve is already all over the chip architecture, and is planning to launch an Arm-specific version of SteamOS alongside its Snapdragon-based VR headset, the Steam Frame, later this year. But what about the Steam Machine? We asked Valve engineers Yazan Aldehayyat and Pierre-Loup…
AMD and Nvidia’s GPUs are currently built on 4 nm-class silicon by TSMC. And they’re not exactly cheap. Meanwhile, TSMC has indicated that it would like to put the prices it charges to chip designers up. In that context, the prospect of IBM’s newly announced sub-1 nm silicon is both very exciting and totally terrifying….
What did you (th)ink? Not content with multiple trailers and two Treehouse appearances, Nintendo showcased even more of the upcoming Splatoon spin-off, Splatoon Raiders, in a Direct presentation of its own. This 15-minute Direct ran through a bunch of the game’s features, and we have listed them all below so you can make sure you’re…
Players Are Looking for Challenge Without Frustration The best games need to balance challenge and accessibility; if a game is too easy, players get bored. If it is too difficult, they can become frustrated and disengage entirely. The entire debate on Elden Ring’s difficulty level is what led players to review-bomb the latest title for…
If there is one thing that is common across all devices that natively run SteamOS, it’s that the graphics chips inside them don’t have access to a great deal of VRAM. That’s a bit of a problem with some games, but thanks to the genius of a handful of coders, a solution has been rolled…
“Hi Sandy, hope you’re well”. John Romero, the co-founder of id Software, has responded to a recent social media post by Sandy Petersen, the DOOM, DOOM II, and Quake level designer, in which the latter criticised video game piracy for indirectly gutting id Software, claiming the situation with DOOM is a lot more “complicated” than…
It feels like the whole world is on tenterhooks for the release of Grand Theft Auto 6, if not because they are excited for a videogame then because it feels like Rockstar is propping up that part of the global economy not propped up by AI. But I’ll tell you one guy who isn’t going…