For the third time this year, Tomb Raider studio Crystal Dynamics has laid off employees: The company announced today that it’s making a “difficult but necessary” reorganization of its studios and team, and that as a result nearly 30 people will be put out of work. The cuts will be made “across various departments and…

One of Russia’s first humanoid AI robots was unveiled on-stage in Moscow on Tuesday this week—and after shuffling on-stage to that Soviet-era classic, the Rocky theme tune, it almost immediately faceplanted. But the reason you should watch the below video is not merely the delicious AI schadenfreude: it’s what the humans do. The robot is…

Hi, reader’s boss. Yes, I can confirm as an authority on all things Steam that the service does distribute software other than games. Your honest and hardworking employee has a good reason to have installed it on their office machine. I swear Bongo Cat is great for their productivity. Really though. Steam isn’t just for…

Rockstar employees may be “scared, hurt, and feel uncertain” following the sudden dismissal of more than 30 people last week, but they’re not so frightened that they’re unwilling to speak out. The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain says more than 200 workers at the company have signed a letter to senior management demanding the…

As World of Warcraft’s next expansion nears release, players are preparing for the first time in the MMO’s history where combat mods, or addons, won’t offer much help. The most popular ones simply won’t work when Midnight arrives as part of Blizzard’s plan to level the playing field for all players. Unsurprisingly, this hasn’t gone…

FPS legend John Romero is on record as regretting, and apologizing for, the famous Daikatana magazine ad that stated he was about to make you his bitch. But in recent years, a Photoshop of the ad has taken on a second life as the perfect memey encapsulation of Romero’s social media interactions with former id…

I like strategy games, but they start to lose me as they grow increasingly complex to the point of near-impenetrability. That’s largely kept me away from grand strategy and 4X games, which tend to offer the richest sandboxes to the most committed players, occasionally at the cost of accessibility to newcomers. The only series in…

Well, this is a strange one. Just minutes before it was set to deliver its financial results for the first half of its 2025-26 fiscal year, Ubisoft mashed the brakes on the whole thing, postponing the release of its results to an unspecified future date. The company also requested that European exchange Euronext halt trading…