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How do you follow up a nordic noir mystery, followed by an anti-fascist pop-punk road trip? With a game about hiking through a post-apocalyptic desert and dodging sunburn in the shadow of your giant war-bot buddy, of course. Hello Sunshine is the next game from Norwegian indie outfit Red Thread Games (led by Longest Journey…
The co-founder and financial backer of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, Carl Lundstrom, has died after a plane he was flying crashed in Northern Slovenia. Lundstrom was flying solo. The 64 year-old Lundstrom was, to put it mildly, a controversial figure with far-right political leanings and some extremely questionable associations. The Register once called him…
Roblox Corporation co-founder and CEO Dave Baszucki has said that parents worried about their kids using Roblox have a fairly simple option open to them: “My first message would be, if you’re not comfortable, don’t let your kids be on Roblox.” Speaking to BBC News, Baszucki went on to say “that sounds a little counter-intuitive,…
Who here remembers WildTangent? Back when digital distribution seemed like a novel idea and Steam was a new and unproven storefront, it was one of the bigger distributors of games online, and a cute little Diablo and Nethack-inspired dungeon crawler named Fate was its flagship title. Smash-cut twenty years ahead to the present day, and…
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 was a hit, and you know what that means: Space Marine 3 is already on the way. Saber Interactive and Games Workshop announced today that “the next instalment in the legendary franchise” is now officially in development. “Space Marine 2 has proven to be a transformative game for Saber,” Saber…
The things people will do for Nvidia’s extremely limited Blackwell chips; besides surrounding tech stores by waiting in line for hours, or behaving in ways that demonstrate why in-person lottery systems are not always the best idea, some are now turning to alleged smuggling. Earlier this month, three men were arrested by Singaporean authorities for…
When you’ve been playing Rainbow Six Siege as long as I have, it’s hard not to reflexively snarl at your first round of Dual Front: a new permanent, 6v6 mode coming in Year 10 Season 2. In development for years as part of Siege X, the tactical FPS’s “not quite a sequel” refresh coinciding with…
Today, Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM announced a “reimagining” of the groundbreaking CRPG for mobile devices. Instead of the original top-down perspective, this version of the game will rely on semi-animated frames of art from more cinematic angles—like a hybrid of Myst and a visual novel. Before getting into its wider context and a retread of…
Spring is here! Temperatures are rising, the snow is almost gone, the birds are coming home, and yes, the annual ritual we know and love as the Steam Spring Sale is once again upon us. It’s apparently been a long, hard winter for the folks at Valve, or at least the self-described “dummy Steam voice”…
What are videogames if not a vessel for parading around all the cool fashion ensembles I’ve created, treating the whole thing like my own personal Paris Fashion Week? If a game lets me customise what my character is wearing, you best know I’m going to be milking the hell out of that, curating the coolest…