It was another not-great quarter for Xbox, and that’s probably not great news for a division of Microsoft that in the minds of many observers is already up against the wall. But CEO Asha Sharma is having none of that defeatist talk, saying after the company posted its result that she expects Xbox to return…
First reported by 4Gamer (with translation by Automaton), former Sony Interactive Entertainment executive Shuhei Yoshida recently spoke about Sony’s decision not to publish Demon’s Souls in North America, which led FromSoftware to partner with Bandai Namco on its breakout 2011 hit, Dark Souls. Yoshida provided the keynote address at this year’s CEDEC industry conference in…
In a time when the dominant game engines are contorting themselves to accommodate generative AI toolsets and the resurrected specter of NFTs, game developers who might be investigating alternatives should be asking themselves one very important, yet all too often overlooked question: Does this engine’s built-in scripting language allow me to write code using the…
Will anyone ever reminisce fondly about the 2026 Toyota Camry? It seems impossible. Today’s cars are almost all ugly to me, and the exceptions are usually concept cars that mimic the lines of decades past. And yet, on an intellectual level, I know that perspectives on this will change. My first car was a 1990…
After much anticipation, Valve has finally given Deadlock a proper ranked mode, and with it comes a major overhaul to how the game balances each match—a substantial enough change that might make playing it a little chaotic for the next few weeks. Before today’s update, Deadlock’s ranked mode was pretty straightforward as it was the…
For the first time in three years, we’re not getting advance notice on absolutely everything coming in the next Diablo 4 season. Usually, Blizzard spells it all out in the patch notes, but this time it’s keeping its lips sealed until BlizzCon in September. There’s still a good amount of stuff to see in the…
As a former delivery guy, I have a fondness in my heart for videogame trucking. It lets me reclaim the simple satisfaction of moving things where they need to go without needing to endure all the things that make people glad they aren’t a delivery guy. There’s just one problem: Videogame truckin’ isn’t weird enough….
Earlier this week, Synaptic Simulations, a small team of young developers only a few years out of high school, launched their first product on the Microsoft Flight Simulator Marketplace: the A220 Airliner. This is one of the newest and most modern jet airliners operating in the world today, and its release in Microsoft Flight Simulator…
I feel a little bad about spoiling this, but the word is already out and besides, it’s kind of my job: It looks like Frictional Games is working on a new version of its horror masterpiece Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and it might be out later this year. Word of the update slipped out through…
The Coalition is finally talking about the multiplayer half of Gears of War: E-Day, and its pitch is a bit different from other big-budget multiplayer shooters of the moment. As I talked about in my hands-on preview that went up today, E-Day multiplayer is split between Horde Siege (PvE) and Versus (PvP). Both formats were…