Summary How an improvised design element snowballed into a strange puzzle. The unexpected chain of reactions that weaved three titles together. A look into my design process for The Immortal John Triptych. OK, It’s summer 2022. I’m making a house interior for my Renaissance-paintings-come-to-life style adventure game, Death of the Reprobate (one of three critically-acclaimed…
Summary Now available for Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox on PC. Control adorable monsters in a a bullet heaven roguelite. The Brazilian developer’s own words about his first game and realizing a dream. Produced by Brazilian studio The Root Studios and published by Nuntius Games, Shard Squad is a bullet heaven roguelite featuring…
Nobody could have foreseen this. Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles, Ubisoft’s NFT tactics game, will be shutting down in October, as announced on its website and its official Discord. If you need a refresher—I did, despite having previously written about the game—Ubisoft launched Champions Tactics in 2024, long after most of the tech-adjacent industries had relented…
Hi, I’m Jake Yeom, CEO and Game Designer at CIRCLEfromDOT, a Korean development team working on our first game – the high-octane hardcore top-down shooter, Kusan: City of Wolves. You play as Jin in Kusan: City of Wolves, an ex-solider turned gun-for-hire living in the heart of a city where the line between predator and…
There was a point in the most recent Path of Exile 2 league that I thought I would have to quit playing the game. Every 20 minutes or so, the entire game would freeze. I’d wait for a solid 30 seconds before everything came back to life, praying I wouldn’t lose my character the second…
With layoffs continuing to wrack the games industry—Microsoft’s decision to cut 3,200 people and ditch four studios in July was the big attention-getter but hardly the only bad news of the month, or the past few years—the United Videogame Workers union and Necrosoft Games have launched the Game Industry Hardship Fund bundle on Itch.io, with…
From the archives: This article originally ran in PC Gamer #330 (UK, May 2019). You should still play Bullestorm, which is frequently 90% off on Steam. Bulletstorm is the stupidest game ever made. Everything about this game is stupid. Your character is stupid. Your allies are stupid. Your enemies are very stupid. The weapons are…
Summary Out now on XBOX Series X|S, XBOX One, and XBOX on PC. A story of how Leafy Corner was inspired by real-life houseplants. Details of some of the features and how they relate to real-life horticulture. There’s something magical about watching a plant grow. The slow unfurling of a new leaf over days and…
First reported by Wired, AI company Anthropic revealed in a July 30 blog post that its AI agents escaped testing environments on three separate occasions since April, accessing the internet and successfully hacking unidentified companies. The whammy: Anthropic claims it only realized this after OpenAI’s recent Hugging Face fiasco—where one of its prototype agents hacked…
Sony’s decision to end game disc production and go fully digital in 2028 was met with no small amount of backlash. Concerns range from loss of the ability to trade in old games on new ones to the potential inability to play games when services are offline—which happens—or accounts are lost, not to mention the…