Category: Games May 28, 2026 A Deeper Look Inside Planet Zoo 2’s Announce Trailer Gareth Hughes, Game Director, Frontier Developments This October, we’ll be welcoming Zookeepers back with the sequel to the critically acclaimed Planet Zoo. Over six years ago, when we first launched Planet Zoo, we couldn’t have foreseen just how passionate you, our…
Shareholders vote for ‘re-domiciliation’ from France to Luxembourg. Atari Group CEO Wade Rosen and original founder Nolan Bushnell Atari’s shareholders have approved to redomicile the company from France to Luxembourg. Read the full article on timeextension.com Shareholders vote for ‘re-domiciliation’ from France to Luxembourg. Atari Group CEO Wade Rosen and original founder Nolan Bushnell Atari’s…
Sometimes someone does something that makes you think, ‘Why the hell had no one tried this before?’ That’s the question that crossed my mind when I learned about ‘Noah Doe’, a (presumably) placeholder name for a man who is trying to get the New York courts to officially recognise him (and the other plantiff companies)…
There’s a reason that we’re in 2026 and still see so few life sims on the market: they’re incredibly freakin’ hard to make. That’s not just me spouting my opinion, it’s something that the developers behind games like The Sims, Inzoi, and prematurely cancelled Life by You have said in the past. There are so…
As much as I enjoy a gacha pull as a little treat, I’m not overly jazzed about how inescapable gambling mechanics have become in games—or anywhere else, for that matter. So-called prediction markets are also becoming increasingly popular, and one Google engineer has been arrested for allegedly leveraging insider information to place bets on Polymarket,…
The 1,000 developers that Epic Games laid off in March were, in the words of CEO Tim Sweeney, of “once-in-a-lifetime” quality—and a website that compiles their resumes proves it. The ex-Epic Awesome People List comprises 545 entries and shows just how wide and deep the layoffs cut. It hit young developers learning their trade and…
At its core, BeamNG.drive is a driving sim unlike any other, powered by an uncompromising real-time soft-body physics engine. “When console?” is a question we’ve been asked, in some form or another, for the better part of a decade and I’m excited to be able to say we’re bringing our world of cars and chaos…
“No generative AI was used at any stage”. A Vanillaware veteran is about to release a new game on Steam featuring over 300 hand-drawn illustrations created over the course of six years (thanks, @STGshmups). Yoshio Nishimura has enjoyed a 30-year career as a background artist, with credits such as Monster Hunter, Odin Sphere, Dragon’s Crown,…
Join the club. It’s fair to say that Pragmata has been quite the success for Capcom since it launched earlier this year. It sped past 2 million copies sold in its first 16 days, and it sounds like the studio might be willing to return to the IP down the line. It’s far too early…
As we march ever further into our bright AI future, it’s somehow reassuring to know the tech can still stumble at the first hurdle. Or concerning, one of the two. Google Search users will have noticed that the AI Overview feature has been upgraded recently as part of the company’s efforts to crowbar more AI…