I was starting to get bored of decorating in cozy games, but the demo of Twinkleby has reminded me that nothing needs to be picture perfect as long as you’re having fun

I love a good comforting decorating game as much as the next person. I’ve sunk more time into dressing up everything from farmyards and homes to full islands than I could comfortably reveal. But I can’t lie, over the last few months I have found myself getting bored of the routine of picking up and…

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DayZ creator says Unity is accusing his studio of violating its software license based on the email addresses of two people who never worked there: ‘This raises some serious questions about how Unity is scraping this data’

Dean Hall, the creator of DayZ and founder of game development studio RocketWerkz, says that Unity Technologies has threatened to revoke his company’s license to use its Unity game engine over terms of service violations that he denies ever happened. In a Reddit post last week, Hall alleged that Unity—whose relationship with game developers has…

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After saying negative reviews ‘might just cause our death’ and ‘we’ve got a few months left in the oven’, No Rest for the Wicked CEO claims he never said they were in ‘immediate financial danger’, actually

No Rest for the Wicked is a gorgeous-looking soulslike action RPG that some of our own writers have very much enjoyed, so know that it is with no malice towards any of the hard-working developers at Moon Studios to suggest that it, um, might be beneficial for your CEO to log off for a bit….

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RuneScape: Dragonwilds creative director says survival crafting has more in common with MMOs than you might think: ‘It’s almost like the genre was born from MMOs’

When Jagex unveiled it was making RuneScape: Dragonwilds—a survival crafting game that cribs more than a few elements from its long-running MMO—I was curious, if not a little hesitant. I couldn’t help but wonder how certain elements would translate cross-genre. Turns out, pretty well. I recently sat down with Dragonwilds creative director Rick Turek to…

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All 3 original Stalker games get ‘fully remastered and optimized’ versions next week, free for OG owners, and I can’t wait to get shredded by an anomaly from the comfort of my sofa

Just before the Christmas break, I capped off 2024 with a news piece about GSC’s surprise announcement that it would be putting out gleaming “next-gen patches” for the original Stalker trilogy—Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky, and Call of Pripyat—on PC. The studio was maddeningly vague about what the heck that actually meant, though, so I…

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