Since its reveal I’ve been asking myself if you can iterate on something like PowerWash Simulator enough to reasonably justify a sequel, and I don’t know why I’m so surprised the answer is yes, absolutely you can. It’s great, and I’m obsessed with some of the new toys FuturLab has given us in PowerWash Simulator…

The Sims development team has posted a message on X reassuring fans that its “mission, values, and commitment remain the same,” and that “The Sims will always be a space where you can express your authentic self.” The message comes one day after three of The Sims 4’s biggest content creators removed themselves from EA’s…

Electronic Arts has signed a deal with Stability AI, the company behind the Stable Diffusion generative AI image maker, to—deep breath—”co-develop transformative AI models, tools, and workflows that empower our artists, designers, and developers to reimagine how content is built.” “For more than 40 years, EA has led through technological shifts across interactive entertainment, redefining…

We’ve known for ages now that, for Microsoft, the age of platform exclusive games is over. Xbox president Sarah Bond called exclusives “antiquated” just this week. But to me, it didn’t really feel over until I saw a PS5 logo in the trailer for Halo: Campaign Evolved, a remake of the most legendary Xbox game…

Every year we pick 100 games to hail as the best PC games that you can play today. It’s an inherently fraught endeavor. 100 is quite a large number if you’re talking about how many creepy Victorian dolls someone owns, but it’s not all that many PC games. Nearly 20,000 games released on Steam last…

On an almost daily basis, a terminally tech-brained individual insists that AI will determine the future of human creativity if we simply believe hard enough. Today, that soothsayer is Matt Shumer, an investor who offered a demonstration of his vision for AI’s videogame development potential—and was quickly blasted for it, because the vision sucks to…

Content warning: This article includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts, help is available from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (US), Crisis Services Canada (CA), Samaritans (UK), Lifeline (AUS), and other hotlines. Earlier this week news broke of the death of Daniel ‘Danya’ Naroditsky, a 29 year-old chess…

During Friday’s Halo World Championship esports tournament on Friday, Halo Studios was meant to unveil its next project. But the Xbox store got to it first: Halo Campaign Evolved has appeared on the site, revealing that Microsoft is remaking the iconic FPS 14 years after the last time it remade it. “Halo: Campaign Evolved is…