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The Planet Crafter is a survival game that goes way beyond the traditional remit of the genre. You’re not trying to stay alive by building campfires and hunting animals and smashing together a rock and a stick to make a pickaxe appear in your inventory. Rather than bending to suit the world, you bend the…

Can I make a confession? It took me about a month to get through the third act of Baldur’s Gate 3. Not because it was particularly challenging or—relative to the acts that preceded it—especially long, but because the second I arrived in Rivington I felt compelled to put the game down and go do something…

I’ve spent a not-insignificant portion of my waking hours the last few weeks thinking (and writing) about Hollow Knight: Silksong, but I may have actually spent more time replaying a description of the game from streamer Northernlion in my head over and over again like a Nick at Nite rerun. While Silksong was the focal…

AI-generated voices can be good, or they can be bad—as Witcher voice actor Doug Cockle said, it really all comes down to the intent of the user. How to effectively address the potential for misuse is a big question, but the US Federal Communications Commission has now taken a step to crack down on at…

After nearly a quarter century of helping lead Bethesda Softworks, Pete Hines, the company’s head of publishing and one of its most recognizable faces, has announced that he is leaving the company and retiring from the videogame industry. “After 24 years, I have decided my time at Bethesda Softworks has come to an end,” Hines…

Mrinank Sharma, who was leading the Safeguards Research Team at Anthropic, has resigned from the company with one of the wackiest letters you’ll ever read, complete with a citation for the bible on CosmoErotic Humanism. The latter being a new global mythology about how all you need is love, man. Sharma posted his extraordinary resignation…

I am the survival crafting menace of my friend group—the person in Discord always suggesting we go play in a new sandbox when we haven’t even finished building castles in the last. It’s like being friends with a sentient Steam Discover, but for some reason I can only recommend games where we’re each given a…

Metal Gear Solid 5 isn’t exactly short of options for approaching its open-ended stealth scenarios. But encouraging players to use every tool at their disposal can be difficult once they’ve found a loadout that they like. Its Subsistence rule was one of Kojima’s solutions to this, allowing players to re-enter previous missions without a specific…

Well, the Yakuza fanbase has finally lost it. The mad lads have somehow gotten the idea that Ryu Ga Gotoku studio is set to announce a prettified, Kiwami re-do of Yakuza 3. Why? Well, uh, because Ryu Ga Gotoku studio went and wrote the words “Kiwami 3” on its website. Spotted, as ever, by enterprising…