OpenAI and SoftBank are leading a joint venture that plans to spend $500 billion on AI infrastructure in the United States. The project was underway before today, but the announcement was saved for President Trump’s first week back in office—the president was joined on Tuesday by OpenAI founder Sam Altman, Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, and…
The annual Golden Raspberry Awards, probably better known as the Razzies, has announced its nominations for the worst in film in 2024, and it’s perhaps not a surprise that Joker: Folie à Deux is in the lead with seven nominations. Sony’s superhero stinker Madame Web and Francis Ford Coppola’s muddled Megalopolis are also being dishonored…
Years in the making. Nintendo’s Switch 2 has finally been revealed and it seems some of the features of this successor system have been years in the making. One of these happens to be the magnetic connection for the Joy-Con controllers, which replaces the physical rail system on the original system. Read the full article…
There’s a certain degree of predictability to the metroidvania genre. The opening area is the part where the story takes a moment to emphasise how alone I am, and then makes me do a bit of vanilla jumping and attacking while I pass by all the interesting places I can’t go yet but will inevitably…
Ahead of Xbox’s Developer Direct later this week. Every major Doom game has been released on the Switch and following last year’s confirmation the new entry would be a multiplatform release, it seems like there’s a real chance the next chapter could show up on the Switch 2 at some point. With this in mind,…
I’ve been looking for a new game to unwind with on Steam Deck in the evenings, something casual and chill that will relax me after a long day. After considering a few farming sims and cozy adventure games, I stumbled on Mini Motorways, a transportation strategy sim that looked promising. It’s a game about drawing…
With Civilization 6 about as stuffed with expansions as it can get, Firaxis is finally on the cusp of releasing the seventh numbered sequel in one of the longest running and most successful game series ever. Civilization 7 will be out in February. Far from resting on its laurels, Firaxis is really mixing things up…
For the past 25 years, any list of games like The Sims has been mostly wishful thinking. There hasn’t been anything truly like The Sims series—until now. In 2025 we’re finally going to get some true Sims competition that mimics the full suite of character creation, Build Mode, and Live Mode simulation that the series…
After more than ten years of devoted Guardianship, my Destiny 2 time is comfortably behind me. After gathering countless guns, collecting countless orbs, and completing countless rounds of a violent game show for an unfathomable cosmic horse, the Final Shape felt like a natural endpoint. After walking the paths of the Traveler’s pale heart, I…
We’ve expressed a certain creeping exhaustion with live service games more than once in these digital pages, and the catastrophic failure of Concord led to some predictions that the tide was finally turning against them. But maybe not, too. GDC’s 2025 State of the Game Industry report says 33% of triple-A developers who responded to…