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The studio behind Warcraft, Diablo, and Overwatch just had its third-biggest year for top line revenue ever, according to a leaked email. The email (via Windows Central) reportedly contained Blizzard president Johanna Faries praising the team for finishing off FY26 as “the top-performing studio in Xbox’s studios division.” “Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred and Overwatch…
I can turn an overgrown property into an industrial vineyard in a single year no problem. I’ve done it in the valleys, islands, and fields of countless farm sims. Usually it’s just as easy to pluck one of its provincial hotties out of town to become my spouse (the overworked leader type, ideally), but magical…
Activision Id Software Crytek You’ve been shot, and I have the hit marker to prove it. FOV 90 (Image credit: Future) Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every other week, I cover topics relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the…
Disk Cleanup (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” Sam Barlow is the director of Half…
Typical, isn’t it? You wait ages for a surprise launch of additional Quake adventures, and then two come along at once. The original game just received an official new episode as part of the shooter’s 30th anniversary celebrations taking place at this year’s QuakeCon. But now Raven Software’s Quake 4 has got in on the…
The seemingly unstoppable force that is Roblox might not be so unstoppable after all. The company share price has dropped by 70% following the publication of its second-quarter earnings, which show a decline in players and lower-than-expected monetisation. In an earnings call (via Games Industry) Roblox CFO Naveen Chopra said the company attributed the shortfall…
Devora Wilde has been in loads of videogames. While she’s most famous for playing Lae’zel, everyone’s hot gith girlfriend in Baldur’s Gate 3, she’s also been in games like Solasta 2, Clair Obscur, Crimson Desert, Split Fiction, and Red Solstice 2. She’s in Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 as well—not that she knew about it…
Slitherine’s turn-based 40K strategy game Battlesector launched with a campaign where you could play as the none-more-goth Blood Angels against the bio-horror tyranids. That was followed by DLC adding other playable factions for multiplayer and other modes, leaving players hungry for more singleplayer story campaigns. With the Deeds of the Fallen DLC earlier this year…
It’s well-known that the PC ports of GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreas were a shemozzle, thanks in part to re-used code across the trio of games, but also a general lack of care that used to be the norm when it came to PC ports. The excellent SilentPatch has long been the solution,…
At this year’s QuakeCon in Gaylord, Texas, a number of id Software’s OGs and founders are in attendance for a retrospective talk and reunion, and it looks like legendary programmer John Carmack took some time to refamiliarize himself with the reason for the season. “I sat down to try the Evercade Doom port, and before…