Earlier this month, former SIE Worldwide Studios chairman Shawn Layden said the still-ongoing flailing at Xbox “evince a basic misunderstanding of how the interactive entertainment world moves.” Harsh words indeed—but lest you think he’s just a partisan hater, he’s now taken aim at his former company, Sony, and its pullback from the PC market. It’s…
Thanks to Time Extension, we just found out about a new tv show? – channel who knows. And the youtube video doesn’t tell us much. Retro game marketing company Pixel Helix has announced a digital showcase celebrating retro games, which will air in August. Broadcast in the run-up to this year’s Gamescom event, Pixel Arcadia is billed as “an…
Just over a month after the successful launch of 007 First Light, the fastest selling game in its history, IO Interactive has run into some unexpected bad news about another project it’s had in development for years. An “external partner” pulled funding from Project Fantasy, an “online fantasy RPG” IO announced in 2023, and it…
Bring the adventure home. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie released earlier this year to great success, being the first (and currently only) 2026 movie to surpass $1 billion at the box office. Now, those in the US can look forward to experiencing the sequel in the comfort of their own home when it launches on…
Godot has been suffering from a slop problem. In February, the maintainers of the open source game engine, which powers games like Slay the Spire 2 and The Case of the Golden Idol, said they were deliberating how to address a rising tide of AI slop pull requests, which had become “increasingly draining and demoralizing”…
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Visionary artist Viktor Antonov defined a small but unforgettable selection of games with his unmistakably bold visual style, including Half-Life 2, Dishonored, Wolfenstein: The New Order, and Weird West. (He also did Redneck Rampage, but that was way back when.) He died in 2025 at just 52 years old, but before his tragic passing he…
Arm chips are making increasing inroads into the realm of PC gaming. Valve is already all over the chip architecture, and is planning to launch an Arm-specific version of SteamOS alongside its Snapdragon-based VR headset, the Steam Frame, later this year. But what about the Steam Machine? We asked Valve engineers Yazan Aldehayyat and Pierre-Loup…
AMD and Nvidia’s GPUs are currently built on 4 nm-class silicon by TSMC. And they’re not exactly cheap. Meanwhile, TSMC has indicated that it would like to put the prices it charges to chip designers up. In that context, the prospect of IBM’s newly announced sub-1 nm silicon is both very exciting and totally terrifying….
What did you (th)ink? Not content with multiple trailers and two Treehouse appearances, Nintendo showcased even more of the upcoming Splatoon spin-off, Splatoon Raiders, in a Direct presentation of its own. This 15-minute Direct ran through a bunch of the game’s features, and we have listed them all below so you can make sure you’re…