An extremely distracting horse forced Koei Tecmo to crop a game’s box art before release, artist says: ‘People’s eyes were drawn to the horse rather than the character’

For the professional artist, sacrifice is a constant companion. Their work—however beautiful—has to fit a client’s needs or a project’s scope. Concept art of an octopus boss might not make it in-game if it’s too expensive to animate. The sickest knight design you’ve ever seen might get tossed because the creative director decided to move…

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One of the biggest streamers on Twitch is trying to take Asmongold and Emiru to court over defamation claims

Matthew ‘Mizkif’ Rinaudo, one of the most popular streamers on Twitch, has filed a lawsuit against Emily ‘Emiru’ Schunk and Zack ‘Asmongold’ Hoyt alongside three media companies for defamation and breach of contract. As reported by KXAN, the suit follows allegations made against Mizkif by Emiru in which she accused him of “psychological and domestic…

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Veteran game developer Scott Miller explains why it took 3D Realms so long to get PC gaming’s most ambitious but ultimately flawed sci-fi FPS game over the line: ‘Let’s just put all our eggs into the Duke Nukem basket’

Rewind the clock to 2006, and PC gaming was witnessing the launch of one of the most ambitious but ultimately flawed sci-fi FPS games ever—one that had been in development for a whopping 11 years. No, we’re not talking about Duke Nukem Forever, the game that would eventually launch after 14 years of development in…

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OneXPlayer’s new OneXFly Apex uber handheld gaming PC starts at a ridiculous $1,599 when powered by AMD’s top Strix Halo APU and goes all the way to $2,299

OneXPlayer has priced up its epic new OneXFly Apex handheld gaming PC. And the fun starts at a slightly mind-boggling $1,599 when configured with AMD’s top Ryzen AI Max+ APU. Specifically, that’s the Ryzen AI Max+ 395, the only version of AMD’s Strix Halo mobile APU that’s available with all 40 RDNA 3.5-spec graphics compute…

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Counter-Strike 2 has a fancy new feature that makes demo playbacks ‘match the player’s original experience much more closely’

In Counter-Strike 2, milliseconds matter. The tiniest time-slice can be the difference between virtual life and virtual death, so anything you can do to get bullets into braincases faster is likely to provide you an edge. Hence why CS2 lets players review their performance via demo playbacks. Yet because of the way the Internet works,…

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This week, Blizzcon 2026 tickets go on sale almost a year in advance—so what exactly is Blizzard going to bring?

Speaking as a recovering WoW teen, Blizzcon used to have a sort of mystical promise: It was a sort-of yearly showcase for the fantastical otherworlds where I’d spend hundreds of hours watching the intense interpersonal dramas of people chasing their next pair of oversized pauldrons. This week, tickets will go on sale for Blizzcon’s 2026…

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Revenge of the Savage Planet director isn’t happy with the sequel’s revenue, despite it bringing in millions of players on Xbox Game Pass: ‘If you give stuff for free, what you’ve done is told people not to pay for it’

Revenge of the Savage Planet was generally well-received when it released back in May this year, accruing a Very Positive Steam rating and a respectable score of 81% in our Revenge of the Savage Planet Review. But according to its creative director Alex Hutchinson, the comedic cooperative adventure hasn’t made all that much money, despite…

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