Pete Hines retired from Bethesda in 2023 after nearly a quarter-century at the company, where he did everything from writing game manuals and stuffing boxes to hosting E3 conferences and guiding the company’s global marketing and PR strategies. Three years down the road, though, he’s still one of the studio’s most staunch defenders. In a…
Pour one out for all the people who can’t stand playing Overwatch’s most popular maps, because the next season is going to make it even harder to play on anything else. Whenever a classic Overwatch map shows up as an option on the map voting screen, you know you’re probably stuck with it. Most players…
An individual threw an “incendiary device” at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman early on Friday morning, according to police and an OpenAI spokesperson. The attack damaged an “exterior gate” and caused no injuries. Less than an hour after the incident, a 20-year-old man who police say matched a description of the…
UFOooooohhh. Mossmouth’s excellent retro compilation UFO 50 was one of our games of the year when it finally arrived on Switch back in August 2025. The 50 games of the fictional LX system have gobbled up hours (and hours) of our time in the months since, and just when we thought we were free from…
PC Gamer’s Mollie Taylor had some very nice things to say about the Starsand Island demo she played in December 2025, and fellow cozy-knower Lauren Morton shared even stronger feelings in February, declaring Starsand Island “the first can’t-miss cozy game of 2026.” Yet if you head over to Steam right now, you will miss it,…
Email us at PSPodcast@sony.com! Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or download here Hey, everybody! Tim and I are back this week to talk about the games they are playing, a busy news week, and some big contenders that are releasing soon. This week also features an interview with Darren Bridges, Lead Designer, Sucker Punch, for…
Teases “old-school” challenge & plenty of throwables. The last year was a great one for fans of ’90s ninja-themed action games, with Game Kitchen’s excellent Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound and Lizardcube’s Shinobi: Art of Vengeance doing a superb job of paying tribute to their respective franchises. Interestingly, though, as we recently learned, these don’t seem to…
I’m fairly completionist with my RPGs: I only just beat New Vegas for the first time after 300 hours, 15 years, and I don’t know how many abortive playthroughs because I refuse to wrap one up until I’ve done everything—and I often get tired or distracted before I can finish everything. I thought I did…
Layton! Inazuma! Snack World?? Level-5 has returned to the livestreamed showcase scene with its first ‘Vision’ showcase of 2026, providing an updated look at all the titles it is currently working on. Overall, the details were kept pretty vague in this one — more than a few games had a noncommittal “in development” label attached…
As part of its 14,000 layoffs in October 2025, Amazon made major cuts to its gaming division, claiming that it was shifting its strategy away from ill-advised attempts at competing with Steam through mismanaged AAA projects and focusing instead on its Luna cloud gaming service. Despite that supposed refocusing, Luna just got smaller. As of…