After weeks of hand-wringing, outrage, ill-advised social media posts, and the sturm und drang of online gamer life, Borderlands 4 preorders are finally live and it is not, as some had feared, an $80 game. But if you want to throw nearly double the regular price at it, there’s an on the table for that,…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has added his name to the list of tech chiefs eager to pledge fealty to incoming US president Donald Trump, saying in an interview with Bloomberg Television that he’d be “delighted” to go to Mar-a-Lago to congratulate Trump on his election victory—he just hasn’t been invited yet. “I’d be delighted to…
It’s Minecraft Live time, and developer Mojang has announced the latest content coming to the perennially popular block builder: including, in the year of our lord 2025, fancy new shaders. One topic raised was the game’s business model. There are various deluxe editions, but the standard version of Minecraft is the “Java and Bedrock” edition…
That’s flash. With less than 100 games in its library, the Neo Geo Pocket Color might not seem like a convincing candidate for a flash cart, but when you consider that a great many of its titles are incredibly hard to obtain these days on the secondary market, the existence of RetroHQ’s NeoPocket GameDrive is…
Hi, I’m Kyle Duncan, Producer for the Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 team here at PopCap in Vancouver. One of our key development goals for Garden Warfare 2 was to allow players to immerse themselves in the world of Plants vs. Zombies like never before. We wanted players to experience what has happened since…
Poker Night at the Inventory was, for a very brief time, kind of a phenom in the world of videogames. A relatively early Telltale release, it was a poker game starring four big-at-the-videogame characters: Max from Sam and Max, Strong Bad’s Homestar Runner, the needs-no-introduction Heavy, and Tycho from the Penny Arcade webcomic. It was…
Cult of the Lamb‘s latest free update has gone through a bit of a journey. After the community decided its title, Sins of the Flesh, meant it was going to be the “sex update”, developer Massive Monster had to put the rumour to rest. But then the studio said they’d make their players’ deviant dreams…
Star-crossed lovers. Nintendo’s latest Switch 2 Edition release is almost here. Ahead of the catchily-titled Kirby and the Forgotten Land – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Star Crossed World *inhales* arriving on consoles tomorrow, the reviews are in… and they’re looking pretty strong. As a reminder, this is the same base game as the 2022…
Now including Mythical Island. One of the most complicated parts of a new card game, digital or otherwise, is knowing which cards to pursue en route to building a competitive deck. For Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket, what decks you should run highly depends on which cards you’ve pulled as there are so many. To…
An OpenAI engineer has been arrested and charged for using (or endeavoring to use) an audio recording device to spy on confidential company communications. That’s according to the US Department of Justice, and while commercial espionage is nothing new, there’s a certain sardonic twist to this one: it seems the accused employee did so with…