It just wouldn’t be a day in the games industry without some dispiriting news about layoffs, would it? This time the company cutting back on staff is Liquid Swords, the studio founded by Christofer Sundberg, formerly Chief Creative Officer at Avalanche Studios and creator of the Just Cause series. In a statement (via Game Developer),…
The mid-to-late ‘70s saw the dawn of handheld electronic games and the beginning of my collecting something other than comic books. Console systems like the Fairchild Channel F and Atari 2600 launched in 1976 and 1977 respectively, but their high prices – $250 for an Atari plus $30-$45 per game – were prohibitive for many…
The day is here: Wider humanity has gotten its hands on the Steam Machine. Our own Steam Machine review is live, and with it, we’ve finally got confirmation of the Steam Machine’s pricing scheme. The SteamOS-powered gaming box starts at a hefty $1,049. In its slate of Steam Machine launch announcements, Valve has acknowledged that…
Category: Games December 12, 2024 Free Play Days – Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Multiplayer/Zombies), WWE 2K24, Dragon Ball: The Breakers and More Kyle Ocean, Marketing Manager, Xbox Clear out your plans as there is plenty to play with the last Free Play Days of 2024! EA Sports FC 25, EA Sports Madden NFL…
My memories of arcade machines start a little past my home video game history. My memory takes me back to Showbiz Pizza in West Des Moines, Iowa in 1983 for my 11th birthday. It was a small birthday party since we had just moved there that week from Ohio and I didn’t know anyone but…
Nvidia has just announced that it intends to acquire Hugging Face, the biggest open platform dedicated to developing machine-learning applications. Considering Nvidia has been all-in on AI for the past few years—to the point that I barely remember the last time the company even mentioned gaming in an earnings call—it’s hardly a surprising move. What…
Category: Next Week on Xbox Next Week on Xbox – New Games for March 17 to 21 Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Published March 14, 2025 Welcome to Next Week on Xbox! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, the Xbox App on Windows PC,…
MMOs love a good recurring seasonal event, and Final Fantasy 14 is no different. It’s cultivated a decent rotation at this point, and while Square Enix doesn’t tend to share the exact dates for its events super far ahead, each one tends to occur at roughly the same time each year. There’s your classic Valentine’s,…
The Ancestral Forge mission in Doom: The Dark Ages returns you to the more open level design once again, which gives you much more ground to cover. The Ancestral Forge secrets are tricky because you’ll need to find a purple key for a few of them, and the wolf statue puzzle from Siege Part 1…
Please Wrap It Up. Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Zion speaks about his feelings after attending The Game Awards 2023, and why the show needs to do better at celebrating game developers. When you first hear the…