How Lemmings Led to Grand Theft Auto

Before they were known as Rockstar North, the creators of a little game called Grand Theft Auto, the studio was known as DMA Design. A small team that would go on to change the video game industry forever, the beginning of DMA Design was scrappy, fueled by dreams of hitting it big. Despite the massive…

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Bethesda originally thought Fallout 3’s metro system should track to the surface world, then realised running through miles of tunnels was dull as hell: ‘Being realistic sometimes isn’t fun’

We’ve recently had a bonanza of Bethesda interviews to mark… well, it feels like they were all done to mark the end of Fallout season two, which is a bit odd. But nevertheless, among them is Game Informer’s excellent oral history of Fallout, in which the great and good from the studio reminisce about bringing…

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I’m sorry to break it to you, but don’t expect to be able to play an evil pest in Crimson Desert: ‘Would I recommend a full playthrough in that playstyle? Eh, I don’t know’

Crimson Desert, the upcoming open-world action-adventure game made by the devs of the MMO Black Desert (don’t worry, it miraculously avoids non-preorder microtransactions at launch), isn’t an RPG. Despite having oodles of systems, gear, and a large map to explore that might make you think otherwise, the developers are steadfast in avoiding the loaded term….

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‘We don’t have the capacity to support more than 2 colors right now’ is the bizarre excuse X is using to explain why its dimmed theme was just thrown in the bin

While change is inevitable in the world of tech and the Internet, there’s usually a good reason behind the moves. However, when X explained why it reduced the number of themes users could choose, the reactions appear to suggest that not only is it not a good idea, but one that doesn’t make any sense…

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Random: Excited About the Virtual Boy’s Re-Appearance? Why Not Check Out This New Footage Of Its Winter CES Unveiling

The Video Game History Foundation takes back in time to January 1995. The Video Game History Foundation has just published a new video on its YouTube channel, featuring some previously unseen footage of the Virtual Boy’s North American unveiling, just in time for the launch of the Virtual Boy app on Nintendo Switch Online. The…

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‘This is probably what Task Manager would look like (and sound like) if I were still around,’ says ex-Microsoft dev Dave Plummer about his synthwave-pounding AI dashboard

Dave Plummer, the man known for his work with Task Manager and Windows Pinball, has recently taken to Twitter to share what a modern version of his Task Manager would look like, and it’s… interesting. Well, more accurately, he shared the dashboard for his Tempest AI, saying, “This is probably what Task Manager would look…

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TeamSpeak claims an ‘incredible surge of new users’ has maxed out its hosting capacity in multiple regions as many would-be voice chatters seek a Discord alternative

On the one hand, I don’t want kids to see everything I did in the early oughts thanks to unfettered internet access. On the other, I really do not want to give Discord my personal data just to prove I’m old enough to be talking to my favourite weirdos. There’s gotta be a better way—and…

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