YouTuber dreams up and builds lockpicking robot that can feel the pins in the tumbler and it almost even works

‘This was our first big experience, sh*t happens’: The Day Before’s CEO is MIA, its Discord server has disintegrated, and its YouTube Channel has gone dark

Trainwrecks aren’t exactly rare in the gaming industry, but it’s rare that they’re this spectacular. After a suspiciously-polished trailer, The Day Before quickly became one of Steam’s most wishlisted games.  Then delays, more delays, major red flags featuring “volunteer” workers, a much shoddier 10-minute gameplay video (which you can’t watch anymore) and finally a debut…

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‘They’re very determined, suddenly, to see your game fail’: Former Dragon Age writer calls out ‘anti-fans’ who bet on games failing before launch

Former BioWare writer David Gaider, who worked on the likes of Baldur’s Gate 2, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and the first three Dragon Age games (not including Veilguard), recently spoke out about an issue he dubbed “anti-fans” in an interview with GamesRadar. We’ve seen it happen time and again: A subset of…

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Civilization 7’s senior historian once deleted Civ 6’s massive Civilopedia, replacing every entry with a single warmongering emperor: ‘The entire folder just went, and I looked, and it was just my one little entry’

The Byzantine emperor Basil II had an illustrious career. He ruled for almost 50 years, stood fast during a time of perpetual civil war, subjugated the First Bulgarian Empire and won a large number of military campaigns. And thanks to Dr. Andrew Alan Johnson, he briefly conquered history, replacing every single entry in Civilization 6‘s…

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Battlefield 6 fiddles with the pace of Conquest mode but somehow avoids giving the people what they want: ‘Remove the timer’

Battlefield 6 is here and it’s really rather good. PCG’s Morgan Park called it “a salve for an FPS scene that takes itself too seriously” in his review-in-progress, with the wider context of where shooters are in 2025 making its back-to-basics approach incredibly refreshing. Hell, it even runs like a dream. That’s not to say…

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