PC Gaming
Here are some commonly held beliefs about the videogame industry that aged like milk: Xbox and PlayStation will never allow crossplay with PCPC gaming is niche, and dyingXbox will never release games on PC and console simultaneouslySony will never put PlayStation games on PCMicrosoft will never put Xbox games on PlayStation Hey, I was right…
One week after delaying Homeworld 3 until May, Blackbird Interactive has confirmed that an unspecified number of employees have been laid off from the studio. The layoffs were initially reported by multiple former Blackbird Interactive employees on LinkedIn (via Game Developer). Jacob Van Rooyen, who was working as lead producer on a new project at…
I’ve heard of opening a can of whup-ass, but 2024 has opened up a can of survival-ass. Does that even make sense? Sorry, I’ve been up late every night this week playing a survival game and I can’t really tell. We’re only in February and it’s already been a massive year for survival, first with…
As cozy online games continue to prove that not all MMOs need to be RPGs, I’m always excited to dip into a new world. Islands of Insight is the latest, a “shared-world puzzle game” of chill challenges. After a few hours with it though, I don’t think the concept gels. Islands of Insight has constructed…
Esteemed scholars of expanded universe Halo lore know that the Human Covenant war was primarily a combined arms conflict. Expertly trained UNSC special forces teams carried out near suicidal decapitation attacks on Covenant military and spiritual leadership, military infrastructure, and even wiped out entire fleets before they left drydock. The Halo games rarely actually represent…
Yoshitaka Murayama, known as the writer and director of the Konami RPG series Suikoden, has died. Murayama’s death was reported by Rabbit & Bear Studios, which he founded in 2020. In a statement published Wednesday, Rabbit & Bear said he passed away on February 6 due to complications arising from an “ongoing illness.” Murayama gained…
Palworld is 2024’s first surprise hit, combining all the familiar elements of the popular survival genre with an irresistible layer of Pokémon-inspired Pals to do your bidding. It’s a game with no firm endpoint but a finite amount of stuff to do, and so unsurprisingly plenty of players picked it up, played it, and moved…
An airship crew with an unquenchable thirst for exploration flying through an endless sky: Granblue Fantasy has always had the perfect setting for an RPG, but the original mobile game only hinted at the wide open breadth and potential of its sunny world. Relink fully owns that potential, expertly capturing the feeling of going on…
Persistence is an admirable trait, or at least it is when you know the result is not only achievable but a worthwhile accomplishment. But when two film companies tried once again to force Reddit to provide IP addresses for anyone discussing piracy on the site, despite having tried twice before to no avail, you’d be…
The thing about football (or soccer, for our cross-Atlantic cousins) is that it’s just as much about the art of the deal as it is about the art of the beautiful game. The sport’s best and brightest are traded between clubs for price tags in the hundreds of millions, and assembling a dream team requires…