Old-school MMO Project: Gorgon launches into 1.0 with an update that adds ‘by far the largest and most complex map we’ve ever made’

The children yearn for the grind. Between projects like World of Warcraft: Classic and Old School RuneScape, alongside new games like Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen there’s clearly a hankering among MMO players for traditional online experiences. Now, players looking to get hopelessly lost in a lo-fi fantasy world before getting kerb-stomped by a level…

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Google’s new AI ‘world model’ has seemingly spooked videogame investors, but it’s hard to know what it will actually lead to

Google launched a new AI product this week, and as Seeking Alpha points out, videogame-related stocks like Unity and Take-Two took a dip. If those share price fluctuations really were a reaction to Project Genie, which was first revealed last year and is said to generate interactive “worlds,” it’s awfully premature—this doesn’t do anything to…

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Dispatch Dev AdHoc Responds To Nintendo’s Statement, Says It Intends To Address Censored Switch Content

“We’re already working with Nintendo on a path forward”. Following an official response from Nintendo yesterday about the censorship in the Switch versions of Dispatch, the developer AdHoc Studio has now shared a lengthy statement. In this update, which follows a comment it made to Nintendo Life earlier this week, the studio explains how the…

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I watched Markiplier play Iron Lung for 45 minutes before watching Markiplier star in the Iron Lung movie for 2+ hours. Which was better?

Another week, another videogame adaptation hits the movie theaters—but this one is a bit different. YouTuber Markiplier (Mark Fischbach) produced, directed, acted in, and even distributed an adaptation of indie horror game Iron Lung, which he first recorded himself playing in 2022. But which is better, watching Markiplier play the game for 45 minutes on…

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