Culminating a messy, year-long legal spat, Krafton has agreed to pay bonuses to the studio staff of Subnautica 2 developer Unknown Worlds Entertainment, having reached a settlement with the studio’s leadership—including ousted-and-subsequently reinstated-by-court-order CEO, Ted Gill. In an interview with Bloomberg, Gill said he has voluntarily resigned as studio executive, having “mutually agreed to part…

Former Unreal Engine director and longtime Epic engineer Nicholas Penwarden is stepping away from the company after 15 years. “I’m proud of the part I was able to play in Unreal Engine’s evolution from UE3 to where it stands today,” the Epic veteran wrote in a post yesterday on LinkedIn “It’s remarkable to see how…

Point and click horror can be really tricky to pull off, it can lack a sense of agency over your own actions as characters are funneled into certain choices. But it’s even harder to do well when the thing you’re using to point and click with is your own temperamental phone. Instead of using a…

With the confidence of a man whose name is on some of the best videogame stories out there, BioWare veteran and Dragon Age setting creator David Gaider recently told GamesRadar that generative AI is a “virulent plague” on the games industry. Gaider, who most recently worked on “unholy roguelite deckbuilder” Malys, said that the way…

Categorically, I cannot afford to buy my own Steam Machine. Much to my chagrin, the most basic 512 GB model still costs $1,049. Even Valve’s own engineers wish their game box was cheaper. Thankfully, a French retailer is stepping in to try and do what even Valve could not: offer a compact PC for very…