Hi-Rez will only be giving 'minor updates' to Smite and Paladins now it's laying off around 70 employees, but don't worry, Smite 2 is the 'primary focus of the newly streamlined operations'

Hi-Rez will only be giving ‘minor updates’ to Smite and Paladins now it’s laying off around 70 employees, but don’t worry, Smite 2 is the ‘primary focus of the newly streamlined operations’

Hi-Rez, who some of us on staff haven’t exactly forgiven for slowly dropping Tribes: Ascend way back when, has more or less proven that time is a flat circle by doing almost the exact same thing with its current games, Smite and Paladins. That’s as per both a message posted to Hi-Rez’s eSports Discord, shared…

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How to feed owls in Disney Dreamlight Valley

Disney Dreamlight Valley is home to a huge variety of animals you can befriend during your adventure to help you live out your Snow White fantasy. But you can’t just walk up to them and immediately have a new best friend. You have to really work for it, and the best way to befriend an…

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Aww, Starfield players are making the dinkiest little ships

Starfield‘s community keeps getting smarter with their ship builds—we’ve had AI-exploiting nightmares made of corners, ladderless flat discs, and some sci-fi classics. But what about the little guys of the universe—pilots who don’t want some big, fancy warship with 500 autocannons? That’s exactly who these players are repping. The tiny ship trend’s here to stay—well,…

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Fallout dev Tim Cain says we should pay more attention to bad games: ‘[Publishers] often don’t learn from failure because they only look at the games that sold well’

“Jesus Christ, I could write this shit:” The great Alan Moore once said that the sort of negative inspiration you get from reading drivel is even more fruitful for aspiring authors than the kind you get from reading the classics. Fallout co-creator and prolific video blogger Tim Cain took it a step further in a…

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