Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em! That’s both the name of MC Hammer’s third studio album and the phrase someone in Quarantine Zone: The Last Check should have said before promoting me to the title of doctor and handing me a large hammer. Unfortunately, they did not, so I am hurting ’em at every opportunity. Quarantine…
Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em! That’s both the name of MC Hammer’s third studio album and the phrase someone in Quarantine Zone: The Last Check should have said before promoting me to the title of doctor and handing me a large hammer. Unfortunately, they did not, so I am hurting ’em at every opportunity. Quarantine…
The first update of 2026 is also available for Switch. Nintendo has released its first update for the Switch and Switch 2 in 2026. Hopefully, much more exciting updates are on the way this year, but for now, it’s getting things started with some system stability improvements. The same patch note applies to both the…
As part of Steam Detective Fest, which began on Monday, 2025’s GOTY* Blue Prince is currently 34% off, dropping its price to what we in the biz call “a steal” at $19.79 / £16.49. I am writing this post to inform you, PC gamers who may not have played ingenious puzzle game Blue Prince, about…
As part of Steam Detective Fest, which began on Monday, 2025’s GOTY* Blue Prince is currently 34% off, dropping its price to what we in the biz call “a steal” at $19.79 / £16.49. I am writing this post to inform you, PC gamers who may not have played ingenious puzzle game Blue Prince, about…
Today at roughly 2:05 pm EST, almost seven years after launch, Anthem’s last few players were unceremoniously booted from whatever launch bays, strongholds, and freeplay zones they lingered in. A popup informed them they’d lost connection to EA’s servers. After a lengthy delay, any additional login attempts would fail, citing an “error retrieving Anthem live…
Peter Molyneux may have spent the last couple decades earning a reputation as the game industry’s biggest bullshitter, but to those of us of a certain age he will always rank among the greats (and the biggest bullshitter descriptor will always be deployed with a certain affection). The guy had a run through the 1990s…
CD Projekt wrapped up 2025 by selling off GOG, its famously DRM-free digital storefront, to Michal Kiciński , a co-founder of both CD Projekt and GOG. In the years since it launched, GOG has expanded beyond ‘good old games’ to carry a selection of newer releases, but it remains relatively niche, and has never been…
When an extraction shooter comes out and says it’s matchmaking people according to how much they decide to shoot, folks naturally have a lot of questions. Embark recently revealed that Arc Raiders is now using an “aggression-based matchmaking” system, as well as other unspecified parameters, to join players with similar playstyles. “So if your preference…
Our politics are shaped in many ways. Loss of employment might shift your feelings on labor politics. Moving to a walkable city might make you a public transit radical. Or, in the case of indie developer Rakuel, you might start dating a girl who helps you realize your game’s AI-generated art is a moral evil…