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At GDC 2025, I spoke with Tarn Adams, co-creator and lead programmer of Dwarf Fortress, about the past, present, and future of his 23-year procgen masterwork. We talked about how the looming threat of aquifer flooding encapsulates his approach to Dwarf Fortress difficulty and how he’s generally bummed about AI. Towards the end of our…

The new Versos Drafts location in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 isn’t all that hard to find, but you will need to fulfill a couple of requirements to actually access it. This new area was added as part of the Thank You update following The Game Awards, in which Sandfall Interactive won a whopping nine awards—more…

As per the promise of Marvel Rivals getting a new hero every month, the second half of Season 1 will bring players two new heroes: the Human Torch and The Thing. These new champions will be available to play in a couple of days, but before they’re released into the wild, we got a sneak…

The tech inside Nintendo’s Duck Hunt Zapper gun is easily some of the coolest to come out of 80’s gaming. The way this device worked with the NES to determine whether or not you’d shot those poor innocent pixel ducks is truly some ingeniously innovative stuff. Unfortunately, with modern technology we don’t really have a…

Remember, hang on a second, let me check… three years ago? Back then, our entire executive class was possessed of the same mental malady: a curious fixation on words like “blockchain,” “NFT,” “Web3,” and “Metaverse.” Those dark days are behind us now—the execs got bored and decided to make RAM cost $1,000 a stick instead—but…

One of the low-key most exciting changes in Dawn of War: Definitive Edition is the shift to a 64-bit exe, which makes it a more stable platform for modding. Dawn of War is beloved for its sense of scale, and being able to expand that even further with massive numbers of enemies on screen and…