Plus $500 million in cost cutting. Fortnite is one of the most successful games in the world, but that hasn’t stopped Epic Games being affected by the tumultuous nature of the games industry. Today, the company has announced that it’s laying off over 1000 employees due to a downturn in engagement. Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier initially…
John Romero is going to make you learn math! Ever since revolutionising the first-person shooter genre with games like Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, and Quake, John Romero has tried his hand at a bunch of different projects, from more straightforward spiritual successors to his earlier work to mobile titles, social games, and MMOs. The making of…
Today feels like a good day for Windows 11 fans. After the revelation that Microsoft might remove the requirement for an online MS account to set up Windows, along with reducing AI pervasiveness and even making Windows Update less of a pain, now we learn that Microsoft once aspired to reduce both the idle memory…
Battle away. Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have announced that Pokémon Champions is coming to Switch on 8th April 2026. The iOS and Android release will follow later in the year. While the game won’t be getting a Switch 2 version, we will be getting a free update which will boost the visuals on the…
Fatality! In 1992, there were few games bigger than Midway’s fatality-fueled arcade fighting game Mortal Kombat, so it only made sense that someone would eventually take on the challenge of bringing the popular experience to consoles, in the pursuit of profits. The New York-based publisher Acclaim Entertainment would eventually accept this responsibility, teaming up with…
(Image credit: Getty Images) Whether you’re curious about a career in game development or honing your skills, there is a perfect game design program for you. Read up on the 50 best undergraduate and 25 best graduate programs for gaming, as chosen by The Princeton Review. Higher education is one of the bigger choices you’ll…
True to its name, EverQuest hasn’t let the questing end since 1999, but it’s been a minute since a big new EverQuest project appeared aside from expansions to the existing MMOs. The last was EverQuest Next, which was cancelled in 2016. Finally, Daybreak’s got something new for us, but what’s next this time is what…
Not a lot of tanGROWTH to be seen here. The latest UK charts are in, and for anybody waiting on that big Pokémon Pokopia physical rebound… keep waiting. Despite putting up some impressive digital sales, Ditto’s latest continues to struggle on the physical front, thanks to stock issues, and takes a tumble down to sixth…
This here is the Lancool 217 chassis from Lian Li. Now, for the uninitiated, Lancool, for the longest time, was a subsidiary part of Lian Li. The concept behind it was to cater more towards budget-oriented PC builders and folk who preferred airflow over shiny glass and tempered aluminum hot boxes. Without necessarily capitulating on…
With the launch of its Arrow Lake refresh processors, Intel didn’t just release some of the best CPUs it’s made in years, it also introduced a new software package called Binary Optimization Tool, or BOT for short. Over the past week, I’ve been testing BOT to assess whether Intel’s claims have merit and whether it…