2026

Amanita Design is one of my long-standing favorites. It was the studio’s 2009 robot adventure Machinarium that hooked me, but Botanicula, the Samorost games, the madcap Chuchel—they’re all brilliantly creative works. So when I saw that a demo for its next game, Phonopolis, had dropped into the Steam Next Fest, I was all over it….

Director Paul W. S. Anderson, who helmed the likes of Mortal Kombat (1995), Resident Evil (2002), and Monster Hunter (2021), has just done a new interview on Chris Plante’s (excellent) podcast Post Games. It’s a lengthy and enjoyable listen, and Anderson speaks at some length about the thought process behind that first Resident Evil movie…

As the AI boom continues to, well, boom, it’s not surprising that some are questioning the viability of rampant AI adoption, and the pace at which the hardware supply chain underneath it has to keep up. One such commenter on the subject is none other than the product lead for Google AI Studio, Logan Kilpatrick….

The new version of Final Fantasy 7 that Square Enix announced in a boldly detail-free post last January hit Steam yesterday and, well, people aren’t happy about it. In an event scientists are (probably) calling “more predictable than the sunrise,” it seems fans rather think Square Enix mucked it all up, so much so that…

Of course, it’s expected that the thing everyone’s talking about in a new content drop in Arc Raiders is… the content. And the Shrouded Sky update delivered on that part, with the Controlled Access Zone on Dam Battlegrounds, five new quests, two new Arc machines (Firefly and Comet), the Weather Monitor project, and the admittedly…

I love a good restaurant management simulator. There’s something oddly satisfying about frantically rushing around trying to complete orders before your customers storm out of the door, muttering something under their breath about you. As much as I love this chaos though, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t keen to find a game…