After a tumultuous 7 years, Hytale has ‘officially secured the next two years of development costs’ a day before launch: ‘Thank you all for the support. Hytale is saved. We are almost home’

To say Hytale has had a tumultuous development cycle would be an understatement. Development began in 2015 with funding from Riot Games, which would go on to acquire the Hypixel team entirely in 2020, only to pull the plug on it five years later. It wasn’t until November 2025 that it was revived by its…

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Larian’s learnt a lot from Baldur’s Gate 3 going into Divinity, including the fact that hand-crafted loot is probably better: ‘Randomization did not save us much time’

Larian’s next game, Divinity, is gonna have some big changes to the usual Original Sin formula—and it’s thanks to Baldur’s Gate 3, so sayeth a Larian lead in a recent Reddit AMA. Nick Pechenin, head of design at the studio, said that its take on the Dungeons & Dragons ruleset informed a lot of how…

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The Zelda Adventure Nintendo Would Rather Forget Is Getting A Fan-Made Remaster

Features numerous ‘Quality of Life’ improvements. One of the significant consequences of the collapse of the Sony and Nintendo hardware partnership in the ’90s was the ill-fated Philips CD-i multimedia system receiving a selection of Nintendo-sanctioned titles, including Zelda: Faces of Evil, Zelda: Wand of Gamelon, and Hotel Mario. The CD-i also got 1996’s Zelda’s…

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Steam defies RAM-ageddon and the AI-pocalypse to smash through a new concurrent user record, and I’ll see you back here in like 4 months when it somehow does it again

Chalk up a win for small business! The Seattle offices of Valve Corporation—a plucky upstart company co-founded by Washington businessman Gabe “Gaben” Newell—must have been abuzz recently, when its videogame storefront Steam pipped a steamy milestone in its concurrent user metrics. Sorry, I’ve written so many articles about Steam’s concurrent user records that I decided…

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Nvidia CEO Jensun Huang critiques ‘well respected people who have painted a doomer narrative’ around AI right after saying ‘I guess someday we will have God AI’

You know Nvidia, the AI gaming hardware company that managed to hit a $5 trillion evaluation last year. The AI boom has led to ever-increasing investment into the company, and so it’s really in Nvidia’s interest for the world to be all in on the potential benefits of AI. Huang reflects on the AI naysayers…

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