Ten months ago, I played early builds of Marathon and Arc Raiders on the same day and subsequently wrote “I’m honestly shocked, but Arc Raiders is a much more exciting extraction shooter than Marathon“. A lot has happened since: Bungie went dark on Marathon after its playtest got less than stellar reception, which eventually resulted…
Go to Hell. Doom has been re-released again and again and distributor Limited Run Games has now announced a special bundle for Doom + DOOM II limited to just 666 copies and priced at a whopping $666 USD (or your regional equivalent). The ‘DOOM + DOOM II: Will It Run Edition‘ will be available for…
Saints Row is dead. Long live Saints Row? No, it’s actually dead, at least according to the design director on the first game, Chris Stockman. As Eurogamer reported, Stockman said as much in a Discord for his new company, Bit Planet Games. A thread on X from user papaRPG popularized a screenshot of Stockman responding…
Today is a big day for us — as big and exciting as the day Tetris Effect was first announced on stage at the PlayStation conference at E3 2018, and even when it was released later that fall. From all of us on the Tetris Effect team: Thank you for your support, for playing the…
California has adopted a bill that requires operating systems to ask for a user’s age or date of birth during setup. The bill, which will become enforced legislation from January 1, 2027, says an OS should use this to determine the availability of applications in a storefront and share this information with any developer that…
After you reach the surface and get to work making your new aquatic habitat a home, your Subnautica 2 adventure hits a snag: You can’t digest any of this planet’s lifeforms. Whatever fish you catch and gobble up, even if cooked, throw up warnings about “digestive incompatibility.” Mercifully, Subnautica 2 leaves the physical consequences of…
TikTok owner ByteDance says it’s committed to its virtual reality arm, Pico, following a report that claimed it was intending to wind down the business. A report from research firm EqualOcean had suggested that ByteDance’s founder Zhang Yiming told Pico’s bosses that they should prepare to gently let Pico disappear into the inky nothingness. ByteDance…
More & more games are now reaching in-game status. The PS3 emulator RPCS3 is “closer than ever to having all PS3 games not only boot but reach in-game status,” according to a new social media post from its development team, suggesting it could be about to hit a major milestone (thanks retrohandhelds for the spot!)….
I’ve pretty much lapsed in my Wordle devotion. Once a fanatic who would crawl through broken glass to make sure I kept my daily streak alive, I now only remember to play Wordle maybe a few times a month. Hey, it happens. Five empty boxes can only remain appealing for so long. So I’m always…
Vampire life sim Moonlight Peaks is creeping near but if you can’t wait for launch day to play, well, you don’t have to: there’s a new demo over on Steam right now. My fellow farmlife sim players have been looking forward to this dark but cute twist on the genre for a few years now…