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Heart Machine, the developer of the Hyper Light games and Possessor(s), has laid off “nearly everyone at the studio” following the collapse of a deal with an unnamed publisher for funding of its next project. “I have very difficult news today,” studio founder Alx Preston wrote on LinkedIn. “We had been working on an unannounced…
Have you heard the rumor that Bungie is looking to somehow merge Destiny and Marathon into a single series? I’ll admit that I hadn’t, until Marathon creative director Julia Nardin took to X to say flat-out that it’s not true. “As someone who’s worked on both Destiny and Marathon, I can confirm that the ‘leak’…
Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil movie comes out this week on September 18, and the early reviews have just dropped. It’s good news for games and horror fans: it sounds like just about everyone likes it, with more than one reviewer calling it the best videogame adaptation ever made. (That’s a pretty low bar, but still.)…
MindsEye developer Build a Rocket Boy (BARB) appears to have undergone another round of layoffs, and these latest cuts could be fatal, as multiple people have indicated that all remaining employees are being let go. BARB has been struggling since the release of its startlingly bad (yet still strangely entertaining) action-thriller MindsEye in 2025, a…
World of Warcraft: Forever is a new branch of the MMO that’s making its debut this week in a month-long beta before the whole thing drops in November. It will be the first opportunity to experience some of the new quests, dungeons, and class abilities that Blizzard has added to a version of the MMO…
Los Santos Customs I’m modding GTA 5 every day in a quest to either transform it into a PC version of GTA 6 or break it entirely. Come back tomorrow to find out what new horrible thing I’ve done to Rockstar’s baby, or check out what I got up to earlier. You might have heard…
It’s been a good while since we last heard about Balatro’s big 1.1 update—a year, almost to the day, since developer LocalThunk delayed it into 2026. There’s still no sign of it, but the community did catch sight of LocalThunk yesterday when he popped into the Balatro Discord to let everyone know that everything is…
Ex-Microsoft engineer David Plummer has revealed that he was the “primary author” of Windows XP’s Product Activation system on the OS side, and so he’s got some inside details on the workings behind the infamous “FCKGW” product key. You know, the one that seemed to be written on every pirated, home-burnt CD copy of the…
Microsoft, at this point, drips gore from head to toe. The megacorp has made a hobby of shuttering studios and laying off thousands of devs, in attempt after attempt to right the listing ship of its games business. No luck yet, on that front. You might wonder how Playground’s upcoming Fable reboot, in the works…
It’s that time of year again, folks. The PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct is nearly upon us. We sent a crew out to Japan to film exciting moments from the show floor, and we’ll be giving you more information on over 30 games. We’ll have world premieres, shadowdrops, DLC, release dates, and more. This year’s…