It seems Terraria's developer is as bad at making small updates as it is final ones, as it says its latest balance patch is much more than 'adjusting a few numbers'

It seems Terraria’s developer is as bad at making small updates as it is final ones, as it says its latest balance patch is much more than ‘adjusting a few numbers’

Back in January, Terraria finally received its gargantuan 1.4.5 patch. Three years in the making, 1.4.5 was supposed to be the final update for the long-running, massively successful survival-crafting game. But it turns out that developer Re-Logic is terrible at making final updates, having committed to at least one further major patch in the future…

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Pragmata’s developers take all your comparisons to Xbox 360 shooters as a ‘huge compliment’, though I’m not convinced by their theory for why players are making the connection

If you’ve played Pragmata, there’s a slight chance you’ve noticed it resembles an action game from the Xbox 360/PS3 era. By ‘slight chance’, I mean the connection has been made by anyone who has looked at Capcom’s third-person shooter for more than five seconds. Yet while this may have been considered an insult a decade…

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Legend has it that The 7th Guest’s creators were ‘fired’ on the spot after pitching the game—it’s ‘hyperbole,’ but not entirely untrue

Myst is the game best known for driving adoption of the CD-ROM drive, but as a Halloween-obsessed kid in the ’90s, The 7th Guest was where it was at for me. The 1993 puzzle-adventure game was, like Myst, one of the first games that required a CD-ROM drive—but unlike Myst, sometimes your mouse cursor was…

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An EVE newbie got an impossibly rare $7,000 ship out of a free loot box, leaving him set for life in the space MMO: ‘Everyone gets this for free, right?’

At the end of 2025, a guy who had been playing notorious space MMO, spreadsheet-in-disguise, and corporate espionage sim EVE Online for just six months basically got a $7,000 ship out of nowhere⁠. After a brief, agonizing period in which he might have been lowballed or otherwise thwarted like a Coen Brothers character sitting on…

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