2026
Kaboomania – A bomberman clone is coming to the Amiga and PC, Kickstarter soon! [Video Update]
When I was growing up there was a game I used to love playing with friends whereby your task was to drop bombs, and hopefully blow up other players in a maze like game screen. That game was none other than Bomberman also known as Dynablaster. A game which was actually first released way back…
Valheim’s creative director is still ‘dedicated on Valheim every day’ in addition to his new co-op dungeon crawler: ‘We love making games so much that we want to make more games’
Developer Iron Gate Studios released Valheim into early access almost exactly five years ago, and the finish line may finally now be in sight: work on the survival game’s final biome is underway and the launch on PlayStation and Switch 2 is planned for 2026. While there’s been no official word, I wouldn’t be surprised…
Huge new Avowed update adds New Game Plus, playable dwarves and Orlans, and quarterstaffs
It’s been exactly a year since Avowed released, and Obsidian has continued to support it with new classes, new skills, and better optimization. To coincide with the new PS5 edition, Avowed just got its biggest update yet, adding New Game Plus, three new playable races, and a new weapon class. Character creation will now let…
Thanks to Diablo 2, Blizzard might’ve found a way to fix Diablo 4’s loot fatigue in its next expansion
Ever since Blizzard started reworking the clunky parts of Diablo 4, one thing has remained constant: Monsters shower you with more loot than you can carry in your inventory. That might sound like a good thing—and admittedly, it’s fun for a while—but it becomes a real problem the further you progress your character. It doesn’t…
US Department of Homeland Security has reportedly demanded personal information about ICE’s critics from Discord, Reddit, Google, and Meta—and at least 3 of those platforms have complied
In recent months, the US Department of Homeland Security has issued hundreds of administrative subpoenas to Google, Reddit, Discord, and Meta to obtain the identifying information of individuals behind accounts that track or criticize Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, according to New York Times reporting. According to four federal officials and tech industry workers who…
Unity boss who once called out the ‘idiocy’ of the metaverse now says his company’s new AI tech ‘will enable developers to prompt full casual games into existence with natural language only’
Just a couple weeks after Google seemingly spooked game company investors with its AI-powered “world model” Project Genie, engine maker Unity says it’s chasing the same digital dragon, and that “AI-driven authoring” will be one of its major focuses in 2026. “At the Game Developer Conference in March, we’ll be unveiling the beta of the…
Mewgenics sells 1 million copies in just 1 week, far more than its creators expected: ‘We both got a bit blindsided by this’
That sure didn’t take long: Just one week after release, the bizarre cat-breeding simulator Mewgenics has surpassed one million copies sold. Word of the major milestone came from Mewgenics co-creator Tyler Glaiel on X, who posted a simple, to-the-point message that was apparently created by fan artist Whom: (Image credit: Tyler Glaiel (Twitter)) The message…
Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in ‘AI slop’ code contributions: ‘I don’t know how long we can keep it up’
Open-source software development—the open, collaborative contribution of knowledge in the name of problem solving, bug fixing, feature development, and ongoing support—is a borderline utopian idea. But the advent of generative LLMs has forced the maintainers of projects like open-source game engine Godot to face a deluge of AI-generated code from would-be contributors who might not…
The best parts of my favorite World of Warcraft classes are being turned into new heroes for Fellowship’s pre-season 2 update this week
Nobody on the team making Fellowship would deny that World of Warcraft was a massive inspiration for the game—I know, because I’ve asked them about it. It’s not just the art style, but the entire pitch for the game is what would happen if a popular activity in WoW was an entire game. What impresses…