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First reported by 4Gamer (with translation by Automaton), former Sony Interactive Entertainment executive Shuhei Yoshida recently spoke about Sony’s decision not to publish Demon’s Souls in North America, which led FromSoftware to partner with Bandai Namco on its breakout 2011 hit, Dark Souls. Yoshida provided the keynote address at this year’s CEDEC industry conference in…

In a time when the dominant game engines are contorting themselves to accommodate generative AI toolsets and the resurrected specter of NFTs, game developers who might be investigating alternatives should be asking themselves one very important, yet all too often overlooked question: Does this engine’s built-in scripting language allow me to write code using the…

Will anyone ever reminisce fondly about the 2026 Toyota Camry? It seems impossible. Today’s cars are almost all ugly to me, and the exceptions are usually concept cars that mimic the lines of decades past. And yet, on an intellectual level, I know that perspectives on this will change. My first car was a 1990…

After much anticipation, Valve has finally given Deadlock a proper ranked mode, and with it comes a major overhaul to how the game balances each match—a substantial enough change that might make playing it a little chaotic for the next few weeks. Before today’s update, Deadlock’s ranked mode was pretty straightforward as it was the…

For the first time in three years, we’re not getting advance notice on absolutely everything coming in the next Diablo 4 season. Usually, Blizzard spells it all out in the patch notes, but this time it’s keeping its lips sealed until BlizzCon in September. There’s still a good amount of stuff to see in the…

As a former delivery guy, I have a fondness in my heart for videogame trucking. It lets me reclaim the simple satisfaction of moving things where they need to go without needing to endure all the things that make people glad they aren’t a delivery guy. There’s just one problem: Videogame truckin’ isn’t weird enough….

I feel a little bad about spoiling this, but the word is already out and besides, it’s kind of my job: It looks like Frictional Games is working on a new version of its horror masterpiece Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and it might be out later this year. Word of the update slipped out through…

The Coalition is finally talking about the multiplayer half of Gears of War: E-Day, and its pitch is a bit different from other big-budget multiplayer shooters of the moment. As I talked about in my hands-on preview that went up today, E-Day multiplayer is split between Horde Siege (PvE) and Versus (PvP). Both formats were…

New ZeniMax Online Studios co-head Nick Giacomini says that despite deep cuts at the studio as part of the most recent round of Xbox layoffs, The Elder Scrolls Online “is here to stay.” But those layoffs, which saw more than 200 people let go including Giacomini’s predecessor Joseph Burba, mean that previously announced timelines are…

The Steam Machine is finally here—though Dbrand’s Companion Cube-inspired skin for it will sadly never see light outside of a test chamber. Turns out, the peripherals and accessories brand had ‘built the idea into something real without ever asking Valve’ for permission. But Dbrand has now rocked up with what it’s describing as its ‘backup…