Having spent the last week playing the final version of Greedfall: The Dying World I’m faced with a conundrum. I admire its quiet ambition and some elements of its world, but it’s a humdrum slog to play. It’s the latest from Spiders, French purveyors of eurojank. The term is shorthand for an RPG that’s big…
A lot of folks weren’t too happy with Marathon’s season one battle pass when it came out alongside the full game last week. While it’s nice that Marathon “rewards passes” never expire, many argue $10 is a bit steep for a pass that contains gun skins and charms, but only a single character skin.So Bungie…
The extraction shooter is still figuring itself out. That’s a funny thing to say about a videogame genre that’s been around for like a decade (Escape From Tarkov’s first alpha goes back to 2016), but it’s true. For a long time, there were pretty much two examples of extraction games charting their own path: Escape…
I’m not really a Wordle person, but I’m not opposed to the daily challenge format if you spice it up a bit with a theme. I’ve played quite a few gaming and anime-inspired takes since the word puzzle first took off, but Stardewdle—a fan-made mishmash of Stardew Valley and Wordle—is one of the best I’ve…
Before there was Phil Spencer—thematically speaking, that is—there was Peter Moore: charismatic, engaged, and very high profile, at least by the standards of your typical game industry exec. He rolled up his sleeve to reveal the Halo 2 release date tattooed on his arm at E3 2004, for instance, an act he followed up a…
By just about any metric, Dispatch was a wild success. After launching at the tail end of October 2025, it sold more than 3 million copies before the year’s end, and at time of writing 97% of its over 165,000 reviews on Steam are positive. But in a GDC talk today, Dispatch creative directors and…
Veteran voice actor Ben Diskin, who provided the voice of Mega Man in the 2018 release Mega Man 11, says he won’t be returning to the series because Capcom refuses to use unionized voice actors.Diskin isn’t the original or only voice of Mega Man, but Mega Man 11 is both the most recent and best…
It’s not overstating things to say Tim Cain is a legend among PC RPG fans. The man’s got credits on a roster of games that would make other developers green with envy: Stonekeep, Fallout, Arcanum, ToEE, Pillars of Eternity, and more. And it all began, as he recounted in his most recent video, because he…
Category: Games Screenbound: Getting Our Heads Around the Brain-Breaking “5D” Platformer Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Published March 10, 2026 2D platformer or 3D platformer? Many will have a definitive preference to that decades-old question – but Screenbound dares to ask: why not both? It’s a simple enough pitch, but playing the game’s GDC demo…
I’m pretty sure it was World of Warcraft where I learned the phrase “exploit early, exploit often” whenever players discovered something Blizzard probably didn’t want them to. Buying items for cheaper than they sell for was a common one, but there have been worse things, like slaying hundreds of frogs for a shortcut to godhood.Usually…