In the latest episode of Nightdive Studios’ Deep Dive podcast, System Shock 2 artist and industry veteran Nate Wells shared stories of his time working on the PC gaming classic—including how he sourced an unlikely art asset for the structures built by nasty worm aliens, The Many. “This is a funny moment, I don’t know…
In 2022, quality assurance testers at Call of Duty studio Raven Software became the first union to organize at a major American games company as the Game Workers Alliance-CWA. Today, after three years of negotiation, GWA-CWA members voted to ratify their first contract between the union and Microsoft. According to a press release from the…
The Battlefield 6 open beta is imminent, and for the most part, it really is an open beta. EA is running the playtest for two weekends, but there are a handful of ways to get two days of early access. If you signed up for Battlefield Labs before July 31, you’ll automatically be granted access…
I’m not sure exactly when it happened, but one fateful day in the recent past videogames collectively decided that instead of compiling shaders while we were playing a game, it’d compile them before we started playing the game. Gripes Week (Image credit: Future) We’re spending the week airing all our grievances with gaming and computing…
I join three standup meetings per week. On paper, these video calls are where we check in, discuss what we’re working on, and assign stories for the immediate future. In practice, it’s a thrice-weekly Sisyphean gauntlet for my audio configuration, during which I’ll frequently discover that Windows has lost track of what input and output…
ARMS! WarioWare! Shredder’s Revenge! It’s time once again for Nintendo of America’s Play Together sale! From today until August 17th at 11:59 pm PT the Play Together sale slashes the price of multiple multiplayer games so you and your friends and family can get together and sit down for some excellent couch co-op for a…
And he’d love to make another soundtrack, “if asked”. Those lovely folks over at VGC spoke to the one and only Hirokazu Tanaka — better known as ‘Hip’ or ‘Chip’ Tanaka — at Bitsummit’s Indie Game Event in Kyoto last month and, it seems, the main man may well be up for making some sweet…
McFarlane Toys’ upcoming addition to its line of Fallout action figures is an absolute whopper, a doozy, “The Big One:” A premium, $50 take on the elite NCR Ranger from New Vegas, complete with an arsenal of weapons out of the game. The figure is up for preorder now, and set to ship in Q4…
Out in November. Koei Tecmo has released a brand new trailer for Atelier Ryza Secret Trilogy Deluxe Pack, which will contain DX versions (essentially, expanded versions) of the Atelier Ryza trilogy of games, which launched on Switch. Plus, the trio has a release date of 13th November 2025 for both Switch 1 and Switch 2….
Four decades of 1-1. Five years ago, Nintendo made an appropriately big thing of Super Mario Bros.‘ 35th anniversary, with a bespoke Direct broadcast featuring a bunch of new games and, naturally, merch celebrating the Famicom release of video gaming’s most famous platformer on 13th September 1985. Half a decade on and the 40th anniversary…