Look, it was the 1990s. Everybody was super into two things: edginess, and caring deeply about the environment. A Dungeons & Dragons setting where the entire world had been turned into a hostile desert wasteland by exploitative sorcerer-kings and a bunch of sinewy warriors with psychic powers and an aversion to pants had to slaughter…
Launching alongside Update 1.6. Earlier this week, a Switch 2 classification was spotted for LEGO Party. In an update, a native version of the title for this platform has now been officially announced. It launches alongside Update 1.6 and comes with higher frame rates, sharper visuals and a free upgrade for existing owners of the…
Fallout 4 remaster, Fallout: New Vegas remaster, Fallout 5, Fallout 3 prequel for Fallout 76, Fallout (the TV series) Season 3, and whatever Fallout game Obsidian is now working on… there’s a whoooooole lotta Fallout coming your way if you’re a Fallout fan. But, uh, not for a while. What’s a Jet junkie to do…
Dungeons & Dragons has been publishing rules for other settings going way back, with Conan adventures in 1984 and Lankhmar – City of Adventure in 1985. Even further back in 1980, the first printing of Deities & Demigods included stats for gods from Michael Moorcock’s Elric stories and H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos. It’s even…
Bad news for anyone holding out hope that some power-on-high would swoop in and put a halt to Saudi Arabia’s takeover of Electronic Arts: A new Form 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission says the deal has green lights across the board, and will be done next week. More formally, “as of…
It was another not-great quarter for Xbox, and that’s probably not great news for a division of Microsoft that in the minds of many observers is already up against the wall. But CEO Asha Sharma is having none of that defeatist talk, saying after the company posted its result that she expects Xbox to return…
First reported by 4Gamer (with translation by Automaton), former Sony Interactive Entertainment executive Shuhei Yoshida recently spoke about Sony’s decision not to publish Demon’s Souls in North America, which led FromSoftware to partner with Bandai Namco on its breakout 2011 hit, Dark Souls. Yoshida provided the keynote address at this year’s CEDEC industry conference in…
In a time when the dominant game engines are contorting themselves to accommodate generative AI toolsets and the resurrected specter of NFTs, game developers who might be investigating alternatives should be asking themselves one very important, yet all too often overlooked question: Does this engine’s built-in scripting language allow me to write code using the…
Will anyone ever reminisce fondly about the 2026 Toyota Camry? It seems impossible. Today’s cars are almost all ugly to me, and the exceptions are usually concept cars that mimic the lines of decades past. And yet, on an intellectual level, I know that perspectives on this will change. My first car was a 1990…
After much anticipation, Valve has finally given Deadlock a proper ranked mode, and with it comes a major overhaul to how the game balances each match—a substantial enough change that might make playing it a little chaotic for the next few weeks. Before today’s update, Deadlock’s ranked mode was pretty straightforward as it was the…