The US edition of PC Gamer magazine liked The Temple of Elemental Evil enough to award it a respectable 79% in 2003, but we still had more than a few monster-sized bones to pick with Troika’s D&D RPG: NPC companions silently loading themselves up with so much worthless loot they become encumbered by it; atrocious…
As of December 10th, Montezuma’s Revenge – The 40th Anniversary Edition is now available for download on the Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, Playstation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, as well as the Microsoft Store. The porting of Montezuma’s Revenge to these platforms follows up on the game’s Steam release back in…
In July, Romero Games, the game studio founded by industry legends Brenda and John Romero, announced in the midst of Microsoft’s mass layoffs of over 9,000 employees that it had lost funding for its in-development shooter project. While the developer said days later that it was “doing everything in our power to ensure” it stayed…
In July, Romero Games, the game studio founded by industry legends Brenda and John Romero, announced in the midst of Microsoft’s mass layoffs of over 9,000 employees that it had lost funding for its in-development shooter project. While the developer said days later that it was “doing everything in our power to ensure” it stayed…
Grand Theft Auto 6 developer Rockstar Games fired more than 30 employees in October for reasons that still aren’t entirely clear. Rockstar says the employees were leaking confidential information in a public forum, but the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain called it “plain and simple union busting.” It was a big enough deal that…
Category: ID@Xbox December 10, 2025 Build a Bright Future in Frostpunk 2: Fractured Utopias Alex Boiret – Lead Narrative Designer, 11 bit Studios Build a Bright Future* in Frostpunk 2’s Fractured Utopias!(*definitions of ‘Bright Future’ may vary – ask your local faction representative). Since the launch of Frostpunk 2, attention has mostly been on the…
Category: ID@Xbox December 10, 2025 Build a Bright Future in Frostpunk 2: Fractured Utopias Alex Boiret – Lead Narrative Designer, 11 bit Studios Build a Bright Future* in Frostpunk 2’s Fractured Utopias!(*definitions of ‘Bright Future’ may vary – ask your local faction representative). Since the launch of Frostpunk 2, attention has mostly been on the…
Not only is Fallout Season 2 approaching, but so are the holidays, which means it’s time to get cozy. At least as cozy as you can get in the harsh world of Fallout. That means the crackling fire in the fireplace doesn’t just contain logs, it’s also got, well… a severed arm. A nice, juicy,…
Not only is Fallout Season 2 approaching, but so are the holidays, which means it’s time to get cozy. At least as cozy as you can get in the harsh world of Fallout. That means the crackling fire in the fireplace doesn’t just contain logs, it’s also got, well… a severed arm. A nice, juicy,…
This is Lindsey, game director at Timberline Studio. Today, I’d like to tell you more about how the concept of flavor is integral to how we built our cooking and gameplay systems in Beastro, our upcoming crunchy-cozy deck builder, coming to PS5 in Spring 2026. We know that’s a lot to unpack up there, so…