I had the pleasure of attending a Netflix event around the WoW documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin last year—one that was attended by folks from Muscular Dystrophy UK, a charity that helps fund research into the kinds of muscle-wasting conditions that impact not just Ibelin’s late player, Mats Steen, but many disabled gamers the…
It’s been five years since Todd Howard revealed the startling news that yes, Bethesda is going to make The Elder Scrolls 6, and it will be years yet before it actually arrives. It’s a virtually unprecedented gap between a game’s “announcement” (such as it was) and tangible evidence that something’s being done to make it…
On January 17, 2025, Update v33.20 brought King Kong to Fortnite as an Epic outfit that players could purchase for 1,500 V-Bucks. But while the dizzying pace of our contemporary culture might make it hard to remember, King Kong existed in media long before he could hit the Griddy or kill Sabrina Carpenter for sport….
Despite some technical misgivings we rated Forza Motorsport quite highly when it launched in October 2023, but others haven’t been quite as impressed. Take a trip around to Steam and you’ll quickly notice a “mostly negative” user rating across nearly 5,000 user reviews. There’s a range of complaints: Some users are struggling with bugs and…
As a longtime Dwarf Fortress devotee, the last few years of DF development have felt like a wonder. For most of the procedural fantasy sim’s history, there could be years between updates as development progress was subject to the circumstances affecting the Adams brothers’ lives and attention. Since joining with Kitfox Games for the Steam…
It is that time of the week once again. Every Friday, Kit and Krysta bring Nintendo fans a brand new episode of Nintendo Minute. The pair haven’t been able to be at their usual recording place of work at Nintendo, obviously due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but they have managed to adjust as best…
Oculus VR recently invited us to an event to cover its new VR collectible card game Dragon Front, and while we were there, we got to interview some folks from Oculus Studio. In our video interview below, we spoke with Oculus Studio’s Jason Rubin. He addressed concerns about VR input fragmentation, since the Rift will…
The post-Disco Elysium world we live in is… complicated. Following the release of one of the biggest and most acclaimed RPGs to come along in years, developer ZA/UM imploded, and left its wake are splinters of the shell, each claiming they’re making a Disco Elysium “spiritual successor” and putting in some real effort to discredit…
Courtesy of OldUnreal. If you cast your mind back to November of 2024, you may remember us telling you that the Unreal community, OldUnreal, had released a pair of installers, with Epic’s blessing, to download the influential first-person shooters Unreal (more specifically, Unreal Gold) and Unreal Tournament for absolutely nothing from Archive.org. Well, since then,…
For his YouTube video tutorials. Masahiro Sakurai, the legendary creator of Kirby and Super Smash Bros., has been recognised by the Japanese Government’s Agency for Cultural Affairs. Sakurai revealed on social media platform X (spotted via VGC) has been listed as a recipient of the Cultural Affairs’ annual Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists. But…