CS2’s latest update has certainly put the cat among the pigeons, and feathers are flying. The innocuous-sounding patch “extended functionality of the ‘Trade Up Contract’ to allow exchanging five items of Covert quality as follows: five StatTrak Covert items can be exchanged for one StatTrak Knife from a collection of one of the items provided,…

It’s been a full decade since Fatshark released Vermintide, beginning a journey through the Warhammer worlds that would continue in Vermintide 2 and Darktide. As the stats-laden video above reveals, in that time 8.2 million characters have been killed by the humble skavenslave. It’s always the one you least expect. Both Darktide and Vermintide 2…

An unfortunate consequence of releasing your story-heavy game in early access is the amount of pressure on its final release to satisfy everyone who’s been following along. That’s the trouble Hades 2 ran into when it hit 1.0 earlier this month. As people brought over their progress and finished the game for its “true ending”,…

Roblox has another state-sized headache on its hands, as WTOC/CNN (via Game Developer) reports that Florida has launched a criminal investigation into the company, accusing it of failing to protect children from predators and inappropriate content. The investigation was announced earlier this week by Florida attorney general James Uthmeier. “Today our office will be issuing…

With the flurry of movies and TV shows being adapted from videogames, don’t forget there’s another kind of game out there, one that takes place not on a computer or console… but on a board. I know! It sounds weird, but you heard me right: they’re called board games, and Hollywood is anything but bored…

Provided enough time, all things will inevitably become a roguelike. It is the way of things, a truth of the universal mathematics revealed in countless Steam listings. Everything inevitably becomes Balatro. Slot machines are a Balatro. Mahjong is a Balatro. Chess is a Balatro. And now, thanks to a prototype game from solo developer BadIdeasDigital,…

The Path of Exile 2 Steam page hasn’t aged well since its early access release late last year. At the time, developer Grinding Gear Games wrote that it expected it to be finished in six months. It’s almost been an entire year since then and the promised list of features isn’t all here yet. Even…

Take-Two chairman and CEO Strauss Zelnick has never been shy about sharing his thoughts on artificial intelligence, and he’s been pretty consistent about it over the years, too. While some game industry CEOs see the rise of AI as an imminent revolution in revenue-generation (and yeah, sure, creativity and whatnot), Zelnick has always been a…