You may recall the sad case of Planet Centauri, an indie 2D sandbox game that spent more than a decade in development, amassed well over 130,000 wishlists, and then struggled to gain traction when the 1.0 release happened earlier this year because a bug in Steam prevented the it’s out announcement email from being sent…
This is an interview done by Galloping Ghost’s superstar and International Video Game Hall of Fame inductee Pete Hahn with World Champion Galaxian player, David Lyne. Pete Hahn: First of all, congrats again on your awesome achievement! How long was your entire entire 2 million+ point run, and how did you maintain concentration for such…
FOV 90 (Image credit: Future) Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every week, I’ll be covering a topic relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new. Project Misriah: Halo Ports, a collection of Counter-Strike 2 custom maps that recreate classic…
To paraphrase a legendary tweet about what FromSoftware games have done to modern videogame narratives: A story can just be some guy with a big sword who says, “Zanzibart… forgive me,” in his dying breath, and a bunch of YouTubers will make hour-long videos about it. And by “a bunch of YouTubers,” they mostly meant…
Today’s games have forgotten the lessons of history, according to veteran RPG developer and Fallout co-creator Tim Cain. In a YouTube video uploaded this week in response to a viewer who asked whether old games could offer any “lost wisdom” for today’s game developers and designers, Cain responded with an emphatic “Yes.” Today’s games, Cain…
We are bearing down on the final weeks of 2025, and somehow—somehow!—Baldur’s Gate 3, a game that released more than two years ago (more than five years ago, if you count the lengthy early access stretch) is still banging the table at The Game Awards. It’s reached the point where even developer Larian Studios seems…
The head of Google parent company Alphabet, Sunder Pichai, has given a new interview to the BBC in which he says fears of the AI bubble bursting may well be justified. “I think no company is going to be immune, including us,” said Pichai. We’ll return to the bubble, but the section of the interview…
Team Jade released a new trailer for its military FPS Delta Force earlier today, kicking off the new ‘Asarah’ Season that introduces a new map for its Battlefield-style Warfare mode and an event for its extraction-themed Operations mode. Soon after the Chinese company came under fire from the COO of Facepunch Studios, Alistair McFarlane, as…
Check out the first trailer. Netflix’s animated series, Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft, is returning to the streaming service next month, with season two kicking off on 11th December. And look, we even have a trailer! This second and final season, which once again stars Hayley Atwell in the titular role, sees Lara…
It feels like it gets earlier every year. The decorations are up. The kids are abuzz with excitement. There’s magic in the air and—oh, who’s that? There’s a very recognisable and jolly silhouette on the horizon. It’s Resident Evil 8’s Lady Dimitrescu, whose actor Maggie Robertson will be your glamorous host for the 43rd annual…