Years ago, Fortnite added pets as backpack bling you could carry around. Having a personal handbag dog wasn’t quite the same thing as having an actual mobile pet who can run and chase and so on, but Fortnite’s finally getting those with the addition of Sidekicks. As Epic’s introductory spiel says, “Sidekicks are new pals…

The Attorney General Alliance, a bipartisan group of US state attorneys general that “takes on emerging issues like cannabis regulation, sports betting,” has launched a new Partnership for Youth Online Safety initiative, and its first game industry partner is none other than Roblox. The AGA praised Roblox “for its leadership in promoting safe, more positive…

The tutorial for new extraction shooter Arc Raiders is short and to the point. In just a few minutes it teaches you the basics of moving and shooting, looting, and learning the hard way what happens when you make too much noise in a PvPvE game: either a robot or another player is going to…

Back in August, PCG’s Lincoln Carpenter reported on one of modern life’s little issues, in this case double-checking that machine translation tools are accurate. Turin-based developer Paolo Nicoletti released a demo for his game The Crazy Hyper-Dungeon Chronicles on Japanese Steam after using machine tools to translate the text: and ended up listing the game…

Apparently a single month of alpha testing was enough for Blizzard to transition World of Warcraft’s next expansion into a beta. Starting next month, WoW: Midnight will enter its next phase of testing as it nears its suspected release date early next year. Midnight alpha testing started at the beginning of October and brought with…

I keep a pretty close eye on all the games Hollywood is turning into movies, and I’m well aware that just because a development deal is struck doesn’t mean a film will ever get made. Take the Just Cause movie, which was announced way back in 2011 and still hasn’t materialized, or the Beyond Good…

Repo’s Monster Update—that’s literally what it’s called, unless you want to roll with the far more snooze-inducing v0.3.0—is now live on Steam. As promised it’s a big one, with new upgrades, valuables, rooms to explore, and enemies to deal with—and, as PC Gamer’s very own Repo man Lincoln Carter is especially excited about, “butt physics.”…

It looks like Hyper Light studio Heart Machine may have suffered another round of layoffs, as multiple employees are reporting on social media (via Game Developer) that they’ve been let go. The reported job losses come just three weeks after a previous round of layoffs that saw more than a dozen people put out of…