OpenAI is now one of the world’s most talked-about companies, and the ongoing legal spat between co-founders Elon Musk and Sam Altman has resulted in some truly juicy revelations around exactly what was going on in the firm’s earliest years. One example: it turns out Gabe Newell gave the company over $20 million, and was…

I always try to keep an open mind when playing unfinished games and ones that are slow to start: even when it’s just not clicking for me, I’m looking for how it could improve or what about it might be more to someone else’s tastes. Then I’ll play something like Metamorphosis, whose demo is available…

After dominating the Steam Next Fest in February, the robot wizard cowboy shooter Far Far West is now out on Steam, and it’s a hit. So much of a hit, in fact, that the servers are struggling—with confusion. The issue doesn’t appear to be one of simple capacity, based on a Steam update from developer…

I played a good few hours of 007 First Light last week, and I encourage you to click that link and read all about what I thought of them. But my time with Jim Bond sparked other thoughts. Thoughts that probably don’t belong in a preview. Thoughts like: What if James Bond just shouldn’t be…

The narrative FPS Industria 2 caught my eye in 2024 with a creepy trailer that gave me serious Half-Life 2 vibes. Set years after the original game, it tells the story of a woman trapped in a rather awful parallel dimension that’s being ravaged by an out-of-control artificial intelligence. It looks and sounds very cool,…