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An unfortunate consequence of releasing your story-heavy game in early access is the amount of pressure on its final release to satisfy everyone who’s been following along. That’s the trouble Hades 2 ran into when it hit 1.0 earlier this month. As people brought over their progress and finished the game for its “true ending”,…
Roblox has another state-sized headache on its hands, as WTOC/CNN (via Game Developer) reports that Florida has launched a criminal investigation into the company, accusing it of failing to protect children from predators and inappropriate content. The investigation was announced earlier this week by Florida attorney general James Uthmeier. “Today our office will be issuing…
With the flurry of movies and TV shows being adapted from videogames, don’t forget there’s another kind of game out there, one that takes place not on a computer or console… but on a board. I know! It sounds weird, but you heard me right: they’re called board games, and Hollywood is anything but bored…
Provided enough time, all things will inevitably become a roguelike. It is the way of things, a truth of the universal mathematics revealed in countless Steam listings. Everything inevitably becomes Balatro. Slot machines are a Balatro. Mahjong is a Balatro. Chess is a Balatro. And now, thanks to a prototype game from solo developer BadIdeasDigital,…
The Path of Exile 2 Steam page hasn’t aged well since its early access release late last year. At the time, developer Grinding Gear Games wrote that it expected it to be finished in six months. It’s almost been an entire year since then and the promised list of features isn’t all here yet. Even…
Take-Two chairman and CEO Strauss Zelnick has never been shy about sharing his thoughts on artificial intelligence, and he’s been pretty consistent about it over the years, too. While some game industry CEOs see the rise of AI as an imminent revolution in revenue-generation (and yeah, sure, creativity and whatnot), Zelnick has always been a…
In the 12 years Path of Exile has been on this Earth, it’s never gone back to an old system and remade it. Game director Mark Roberts tells PC Gamer that there’s a few reasons for that, but mostly it’s a fear that not making something fresh—as Grinding Gear Games has always done—might disappoint its…
Duck-themed singleplayer extraction shooter Escape From Duckov is currently one of the biggest games on Steam—particularly in China, where the majority of its over 1 million sales and Overwhelmingly Positive reviews originate. While it’s drawing a comparatively smaller crowd of English-speaking players, the anglophone reception has been just as positive. Duckov’s got a surprising amount…
Fallout 5 was nowhere to be seen during today’s Fallout Day broadcast, but Bethesda did unveil some sort-of-newish Fallout in the form of the Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition and the Fallout: New Vegas 15th Anniversary Bundle, a big-box package that comes complete with a big ol’ Securitron statue. I’m going to go with the New…
Microsoft’s last two years have been marked by the layoffs of more than 10,000 workers, repeated development studio closures, and countless game cancellations—a relentless series of bloodletting and downsizing, made only more dire by the preceding consolidation campaign that saw swaths of the games industry brought under the corporation’s gaming division. Thanks to new reporting…