“I’d like to change my lifestyle and take better care of my health”. Video game developers can be a dedicated and determined bunch, but the cost of that professionalism can often be poor health – as former Castlevania series producer Koji ‘IGA’ Igarashi is aware. Speaking to Famitsu about his aims for 2026, Igarashi –…
Audio director Dan “Toasty” Forden reflects on an incredible 37-year career. In October 2025, Dan Forden, the legendary sound designer and composer behind the Mortal Kombat series, announced his retirement from the games industry and the Midway successor Netherrealm, after 37 years in the business. For many fans of the series, the announcement marked the…
Treat yourself to a little help with today’s Wordle. Keep it short and sweet with our hints and clues for the September 12 (1546) puzzle, designed to give you a push in the right direction without ruining your fun. We’ve even separated them out too, making it easy for you to find exactly what you…
New CEO Asha Sharma hit the reset button on Xbox yesterday, taking out 1,600 jobs at once with another 1,600 cuts still to come before the end of the year. Very few studios escaped the scythe: even id Software’s legendary name did not save it, and it quickly became clear the studio had been swept…
AMD’s GPUs scarcely seem to have the slightest impact on the gaming market of late. But the company has big plans for its next-gen AI GPU, known as MI450. AMD says it’s aiming for “leadership performance across the board.” Speaking at the recent Communicopia+ Technology Conference held by the penny-loafered bean counters at Goldman Sachs,…
While Fissure in the Fog is at the bottom of the expeditions list in Elden Ring Nightreign, you might want to tackle it right after Tricephalos or Gaping Jaw, as it’s on the easier side. That’s not to say it’s easy, though—it’s FromSoftware, did you expect anything less than cruel? To tick off another of…
Valve’s dedication to its portable PC SteamDeck has given us many surprising little side benefits in the PC gaming community. For couch lovers like myself, the improvements to big picture mode have been very welcome. However, by far the adaption with the biggest unintended effect has to be making Steam play better with Linux via…
Blockheads. Remember how many people within the games industry swore blind that Web 3 gaming would be the future? It hasn’t quite panned out that way, of course, but there are some who are still chipping away at the rockface, one of which is embattled French publisher Ubisoft. It has just released Captain Laserhawk: The…
Hollow Knight: Silksong’s PC system requirements are humble enough to run on a decade-old rig with ease, and that was never really in doubt. But we did have questions about some of its technical features leading up to launch. Would it be locked to 60 fps? What aspect ratios would it support other than 16:9,…
Dean Hall, the creator of DayZ and founder of game development studio RocketWerkz, says that Unity Technologies has threatened to revoke his company’s license to use its Unity game engine over terms of service violations that he denies ever happened. In a Reddit post last week, Hall alleged that Unity—whose relationship with game developers has…