Folks, they’re calling it the steal of the century. The unbeatable deal. A throwback to a better time, before the world was ravaged by tariffs, gachaflation and out of control cost of living increases. Could it be true? Could Hollow Knight: Silksong really go on sale next Thursday for a mere 19 dollars and 99…
As Battlefield fans far and wide channel their Battlefield 6 anticipation into revisits of older chapters of the series, only one is offering goodies usable in the new game. Battlefield 2042 is hosting a “Road to Battlefield” event with a free battle pass offering new guns and 24 exclusive cosmetics for Battlefield 6. Good deal,…
T-Minus Zero Entertainment, the NetEase first-party studio founded in 2023 by veteran MMO developer Rich Vogel, has closed its doors just two years after it was founded, and without releasing a single game. NetEase told Game Developer that it has had to “reassess our business priorities,” and has thus ended funding for the studio. The…
Like any good loot-based RPG, Borderlands 4 won’t be over after it drops in a few weeks. Gearbox has a big plan to release a mix of free and paid DLC over the next year to keep the game’s extensive endgame fresh. The first concrete details about the endgame and the next year of updates…
In a 2017 interview about the making of Hollow Knight’s map, designer William Pellen told me that Team Cherry “shied away completely” from describing the game as a metroidvania. Artist Ari Gibson added that they didn’t want to “let a genre dictate” the decisions they made about Hollow Knight’s design while they were making it….
AI company Anthropic says it recently disrupted “a sophisticated cybercriminal operation” that relied heavily upon its Claude code in a “vibe hacking” scheme targeting at least 17 separate organizations, including government agencies. “The actor used AI to what we believe is an unprecedented degree,” Anthropic wrote (via the BBC). “Claude Code was used to automate…
Most Path of Exile players agree that premium cosmetics should carry over between the two games, but they also agree that adding the annoying goblin troupe pet will be a blight on every town and player hideout as soon as today’s update goes live. But just when everyone was dreading having to hear the little…
Surprising absolutely no one, the latest Battlefield 6 Labs playtest was live for just minutes this morning before people started leaking it onto the internet. Players in the test are the first to get to see and try out two of the large maps launching with Battlefield 6: Operation Firestorm (a remake of a Battlefield…
Celebrities: they’re just like us! Except they’re not, usually, because they possess wealth and power and success beyond our mortal imaginings. Occasionally, though, we get to feel like we’ve got a little something in common with movie stars—like when we find out what kind of games they’re into. Take former-Frodo Elijah Wood, for example, who…
During a behind-closed-doors look at Double Fine’s latest game Keeper, I’m struck that this is probably the studio’s strangest game yet. With a back catalogue that includes everything from psychic summer camps to living Russian dolls, that’s really saying something. It stars a living lighthouse—tottering about on tree root legs—who travels through a post-apocalyptic world…