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Today at GDC, San Francisco’s annual summit of games industry professionals, former Blizzard chief creative officer Rob Pardo delivered this year’s keynote address, sharing a lessons learned from a game development career spanning from his days as lead designer on Starcraft: Brood War and Warcraft 3 to founding his own studio at Bonfire, developers of…

Despite my almost 4,000 hours in Path of Exile, I’ve never had a raw Mirror of Kalandra drop—the single rarest item in the game. Part of this is probably because I tend to wander off every league before I start getting to turbo juicer strategies, but it remains on my bucket list for the game….

Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare, known as Tony to friends, has died at the age of 92. One of the greatest programmers in the early history of computing, he invented the Quicksort algorithm after a bet with his boss, later devised Hoare logic (a system for rigorously assessing the correctness of a program), and was…

Did anyone else just have an off night in Marathon? Mine was a bloodbath: nonstop fights, third-party ambushes, and sneaky Assassin solos sending me back to the menu. While I’m happy to chalk that up to the random nature of competitive FPSes, matchmaking working itself out, and generally not being good at Marathon, I hadn’t…

Even though he’s not on the cover art, Overwatch’s tank hero Reinhardt is as synonymous with the hero shooter as Tracer. He was one of the original heroes to launch with the game and has remained incredibly popular as time has gone on. “Reinhardt was actually my main,” former game director Jeff Kaplan told Lex…

Dave the Diver will tread further into unfamiliar waters soon as the explorer and his friends set a date for the fishing RPG’s next expansion. During today’s Future Games Show Spring Showcase, Mintrocket announced that the In the Jungle DLC will release on June 18. As Dave moves his operations to Utara—a jungle village nestled…

Ark 2, starring Vin Diesel, was first revealed by Studio Wildcard way back in 2020, planned for a release in 2022. Long story short: Ark 2 is now coming in 2028. But I’ve had some questions on my mind for the past, oh, six years or so, about Vin Diesel’s involvement in Ark 2, especially…

We said last year, while comparing the Steam Deck and Nintendo Switch 2, that one of the few advantages the Switch 2 has on the games front is exclusive access to Bravely Default Flying Fairy HD Remaster. Well, you can strike that one off the list, because it just shadow-dropped—out of nowhere, no warning, today,…

Hands up if you’ve ever thought the following: “Sure, Elden Ring is pretty great, but what it really needs is the mournful, silent creature I’m fighting to say something FromSoft didn’t write like ‘come at me, ye tarnished dickhead’” during a tense encounter. If you do have your hand raised, I imagine you likely already…

Indie deckbuilder All Will Rise is, as Andy Chalk wrote last year, “clearly a game with something to say”. The deckbuilding RPG is particularly interested in the rich and powerful, and getting revenge on the billionaires destroying the world. It’s deeply anti-capitalist and political, but developer Speculative Agency received funding from Microsoft, which puts it…