Few things in gaming are more routine than a Call of Duty multiplayer beta, but this year’s is actually a bit different. The Modern Warfare 4 beta kicking off on August 21 (for pre-orders only) will include the usual smattering of multiplayer modes, and in a series first, it’ll also include a chunk of the…
Disconnects are an unpleasant fact of life in an MMO, and if you play WoW long enough you’ll start to recognize the telltale signs indicating one of your adventurer colleagues has fallen afoul of a network hiccup: They might simply halt in place mid-combat. If they were moving when the connection dropped, their character might…
BloombergHave you ever said to yourself, ‘If I was rich I’d get Looking Glass Studios back together and have them make a proper goddamn Thief sequel!’? Or, you know, whatever game gets you really wound up about such things. It’s a pleasant fantasy, but not something that ever actually happens—except, apparently, in the case of…
Back in June, RuneScape studio Jagex held its first live event outside the UK (and its biggest to date): Deadman All Stars, an Old School RuneScape PvP tournament. I had the chance to talk to OSRS creative director Kieren Charles at the event, and he explained his philosophy on running the 13 year-old fork of…
Palworld went into full release in July after more than two years of early access, and it’s going pretty well: A massive surge in concurrent players on Steam is slowly settling back down to Earth, but more than a month after that 1.0 launch it’s still putting up numbers that haven’t been seen since the…
It looks like another bad day for Roblox: The US Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism has launched an investigation into child safety on the platform, saying the company “appears to prioritize revenue and engagement metrics over the safety and well-being of our children.” A letter (via Kotaku) sent to Roblox CEO David…
Does it come in black? The arcade and fighting game scene is now completely dominated by a growing number of ‘leverless’ controllers, meaning the classic joystick used for movement is replaced by individual buttons for each direction. For the uninitiated, leverless controllers might look completely bonkers, but once you get used to the layout, it’s…
Summary Pixel-art cozy organizing game launching August 27. Pre-order today to secure a 20% discount. A preview of my creative process and some of what fans can experience at launch. Hello, XBOX community! I am Zhicheng, Producer at GD Studio. I work with a small, tight-knit indie team of fewer than ten people who pour…
OpenPete is now available in v0.1.3. 27 years after its original release, the classic PlayStation platformer Spyro the Dragon has just received an unofficial PC port. The port, which was developed by Amec and tyscorp, is called “OpenPete” (a reference to Spyro’s original name during development), and is now available in v0.1.3 for Windows, with…
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, a WB Games-published 2011 action RPG about a different fellowship that went the other way, recently reappeared on Steam in a polished-up Legacy Edition package. While the modernizations are getting a favorable reception—it’s currently enjoying a Very Positive rating on Steam—its original launch 15 didn’t earn…