“I Sympathise With The Negative Sentiment” – Technosoft’s ‘Fantastic Pinball’ Gets An AI-Assisted English Translation

“I tried to produce a high quality faithful translation”. Technosoft is famous for the Thunder Force series and titles like Hyper Duel and Herzog Zwei, but the company also dabbled in other genres – and its 1995 PS1 and Saturn pinball title, Kyuutenkai, is something of a hidden gem in its library. Also known as…

Read More

Your First Look at Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is an upcoming third-person action-adventure game made by Respawn Entertainment and EA. On the heels of its reveal at Star Wars Celebration Chicago, we’re giving the world its first look at the next major Star Wars title! This single-player story puts players in the boots of Cal Kestis, a surviving…

Read More

Former Bungie director thinks the term extraction shooter is ‘so dumb’ that he wanted to work with Marathon’s marketing team to ‘create a different genre name’

Bungie’s next game, the troubled reboot of Marathon, is most easily described as an extraction shooter—currently the hottest genre on the planet due to the enormous success of Arc Raiders. But if one former Bungie developer had got his way, Marathon wouldn’t be an extraction shooter. Not because he would have made the game differently,…

Read More

How To Use Licensed Music in Your YouTube Videos

Follow these steps to avoid having licensed music removed from your YouTube videos If you’ve ever tried to legally inject a copyrighted song into your YouTube video (meaning you licensed it or otherwise own the song in question), you know it can be an exercise in frustration. It’s not that using music is difficult—the problem…

Read More

The Biggest id Software News from QuakeCon 2025

Category: Games The Biggest id Software News from QuakeCon 2025 Mike Nelson, Xbox Wire Editor Published August 7, 2025 Related Stories for “The Biggest id Software News from QuakeCon 2025” Category: Games Heretic + Hexen Gets a Surprise Re-Release Today: How Nightdive Studios Delivered Another Definitive Version of a Classic Category: ID@Xbox Step Through the…

Read More

How a Bucket Full of Pink Cow Dung Became an Item in The Immortal John Triptych

Summary How an improvised design element snowballed into a strange puzzle. The unexpected chain of reactions that weaved three titles together. A look into my design process for The Immortal John Triptych. OK, It’s summer 2022. I’m making a house interior for my Renaissance-paintings-come-to-life style adventure game, Death of the Reprobate (one of three critically-acclaimed…

Read More