It was a happy ending for Hytale fans, or at least a happy new beginning, when original co-founder Simon Collins-Laflamme acquired the game from Riot in November 2025 and set about getting it ready for launch. But there are other emotions in play as well: In an X post earlier this week, Collins-Laflamme said he…
“I’d like to change my lifestyle and take better care of my health”. Video game developers can be a dedicated and determined bunch, but the cost of that professionalism can often be poor health – as former Castlevania series producer Koji ‘IGA’ Igarashi is aware. Speaking to Famitsu about his aims for 2026, Igarashi –…
Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2025 was “slop,” the catch-all term for machine-generated crapola—or, as Merriam-Webster more prosaically (and politely) defines it, “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.” Hard to argue with the pick: As PC Gamer’s Lincoln Carpenter said, it was “a year…
Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2025 was “slop,” the catch-all term for machine-generated crapola—or, as Merriam-Webster more prosaically (and politely) defines it, “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.” Hard to argue with the pick: As PC Gamer’s Lincoln Carpenter said, it was “a year…
With yesterday’s hangover still in the back of their mind, bleary-eyed engineers and product managers sit down to hash out the details and delivery dates for their upcoming products in 2026. The cycle begins again. New hardware is coming, look busy. Look past the dire news of extended memory shortages through this year and into…
With yesterday’s hangover still in the back of their mind, bleary-eyed engineers and product managers sit down to hash out the details and delivery dates for their upcoming products in 2026. The cycle begins again. New hardware is coming, look busy. Look past the dire news of extended memory shortages through this year and into…
Bloober Team has been on a roll these past couple of years, releasing the very popular and successful remake of Silent Hill 2, announcing a similar do-over of the original, and closing out 2025 with its own horror confection Cronos: The New Dawn. Now it seems to have something new in the works—but what, exactly,…
You may remember the march of Liberty Prime, a set piece from Fallout 3 where the massive communist-hating robot stampedes across the wasteland and terrorizes everything in his path. Even climactic moments like the faceoff against big bad Mehrunes Dagon in Oblivion, which released two years before Fallout 3, seem static compared to Prime; Dagon…
“Dare to peek into the darkness”. Bloober Team has become really bloomin’ prolific in recent years, having released Cronos: The New Dawn and a Switch 2 port of Layers of Fear in 2025, with none other than Silent Hill 2 the year prior. It’s currently hard at work on a remake of the original Silent…
With each passing year, the PC gaming scene grows increasingly fragmented. More games are released, and on average they’re better, too. There’s just not enough time to cover them all, and 2025 was packed with gems you probably haven’t heard of. For those willing to go just a little off the beaten path, the current…