A fun fact about myself is that I love mushrooms. I love finding them in the wild, I love putting them on pizza (please don’t put wild mushrooms on your pizza), but most of all I love seeing them in games. It’s quite a niche passion to be sure, but that hasn’t stopped me from…
Six years after BioShock 4 was first confirmed, it is not going well: Bloomberg said last week that the game had failed a recent development review, leading to the removal of studio head Kelley Gilmore and shift of creative director Hogarth de la Plante to a publishing role, and a planned overhaul of parts of…
Humanoid Origins, the studio launched in 2021 by former BioWare general manager Casey Hudson, is closing. Hudson announced the closure in a message posted to LinkedIn, saying that “despite efforts to shield the studio from broader challenges in the industry, an unexpected shortfall of funding left us unable to sustain operations.” Hudson announced Humanoid Studios,…
Immersive sims like Deus Ex and Dishonored are among the hardest kinds of games to make, so I always try to be supportive when an indie developer takes on the absurd challenge of creating one. Yet while there have been some good examples in recent years like Skin Deep and New Blood’s early access Thief-like…
We had a tough call last year awarding our GOTY for best survival game—it ultimately went to single-player driving survival game Pacific Drive, but only by a razor thin margin because of these two words: Abiotic Factor. Abiotic Factor is basically what would happen if all those unfortunate science nerds Gordon Freeman left behind in…
Category: Games October 22, 2025 Introducing No Man’s Sky: Breach, A Spooky Free Update For Existing Players Sean Murray, Founder, Hello Games Summary No Man’s Sky Breach is free to existing Xbox and Game Pass players now. Uncover the tragic fate of the lost Fireship Arcadia corvette ship in No Man’s Sky’s all-new “Breach” update….
Meet the crew. We are getting ever closer to the release of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie on 1st April, and over the weekend, Nintendo revealed its official roster of character posters for the film’s main players. We took a look at the foe-filled Mario one last week, but an additional six posters have since…
Like a moth to a flame, Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt can’t help but tease the future of Helldivers 2 whenever he logs on to Twitter. Today, after penning a cryptic tweet about giving Super Earth citizens “more officially regulated and mandated freedom,” Pilestedt replied to one fan’s concept for a tripod-equipped minigun with a curious…
The MSI MAG Z890 Tomahawk WiFi has been on the market for 12 months, as it was one of the first motherboards to be released alongside Intel’s Core Ultra 200S range of desktop CPUs, aka Arrow Lake, in October 2024. At the time, there were few other models to choose from, but that’s considerably changed…
