We'll never get Mindhunter Season 3, but Netflix is working on multiple 'scripted and unscripted' projects based on the Catan board game, so there's that

We’ll never get Mindhunter Season 3, but Netflix is working on multiple ‘scripted and unscripted’ projects based on the Catan board game, so there’s that

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…

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Path of Exile 2 director says he would be ‘beyond shocked’ if it didn’t come out in 2026: ‘We never intended to be in early access this long’

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…

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AI is ‘a combination of metadata with a parlor trick,’ Take-Two boss says: ‘A great thing’ for business, but it’s not creative and never will be

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…

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After 9 years of avoiding it, Path of Exile is taking another swing at an old mechanic for its new expansion: ‘This one just kinda felt right’

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…

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After making 1 million sales, Escape From Duckov makes eating s*** worse

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…

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