Steam Next Fests are as delightful as they are overstimulating: There are so many interesting new games to sample, but there are so many new games to sample. That’s why we like to take stock after a couple days of demos to see which attracted the most attention—and what that leaves our wishlists looking like….
Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul is no stranger to videogames. He starred in the live-action film adaptation of Need For Speed in 2014 and animated film Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV in 2016. If you want a real gaming deep cut, Paul also voiced the self-proclaimed “King of Space” in the Black Mirror episode “USS Callister,” voicing…
The Borderlands 4 update that will usher in a range of balance fixes and performance improvements is taking a little longer than expected, and so will not roll out this week as planned but will instead arrive “early next week.” “Quick update that our Day 30 Update, which includes balance adjustments, performance and stability improvements,…
It took more than a year to make it happen, but the promised offline mode for The Crew 2 is finally here. “Hybrid Mode,” as it’s officially known, lets players switch between online and offline play at will, ensuring the game will remain accessible even when the remote servers are gone. A quick catch-up for…
Electronic Arts needed Battlefield 6 to be a hit, and it sure looks like it is. More than seven million copies of the game were sold over the first three days of release, making it “the biggest opening ever” for a Battlefield game. Along with the impressive sales milestone, the opening weekend also saw more…
Dead Space creator and former Striking Distance boss Glen Schofield is an advocate for AI use in game development and is not shy about it. During a keynote speech at Gamescom Asia x Thailand Games Show titled ‘Ten Ways I Come Up with Ideas’, Schofield championed generative AI as a brainstorming tool in game development,…
While they’ve been a terror for countless fledgling fortbuilders, goblin sieges in Dwarf Fortress become predictably trivial once you’ve got a good amount of mountainhome management under your belt. That’s about to change: On November 3, Dwarf Fortress gets its awaited Siege update, and a lot of dwarves are going to be a lot less…
The $55 billion acquisition of Electronic Arts by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and private equity firms is facing more pushback, as the United Videogame Workers-CWA union has put out a statement calling on regulators and lawmakers to “ensure that any path forward protects jobs, preserves creative freedom, and keeps decision-making accountable to the workers…
A Mario Kart Live anniversary blowout. We may only be a few months into a shiny, new Mario Kart game with lush open worlds and challenges aplenty, but as I scrap it out in yet another Knockout Tour or pootle about for P Switches and Peach Coins, I can’t help but yearn for something a…
Once again, Diablo 4 is about to change in a big way. The list of permanent updates Blizzard plans to implement in its next season bring foundational reworks to loot and combat that will trickle down into the rest of the game. All of it will be on the PTR next week to test out,…