Escape From Duckov might look like a parody, but it’s a full-fledged, full-featured singleplayer bottling of extraction shooter juice

I thought Escape From Duckov was a bit. The animal-themed parody game is a model with a long history: Often free-to-play, typically packed with animal puns, and generally suffering from a faint sense that the joke started to wear thin for everyone involved a long time ago. But despite how Escape From Duckov presents itself,…

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Steam’s second most-wishlisted game puts out bizarre set of ‘revelations’ ahead of release: ‘Please don’t accuse us of scamming; that’s not true’

Some time in the 14th century, an English anchoress named Julian of Norwich beheld a series of visions of Christ’s passion while mortally ill, after which she miraculously recovered. Eventually, she would write her visions up into the Revelations of Divine Love, a groundbreaking work of mystical theology that would come to be regarded as…

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Microsoft is finally rolling out its controversial Recall feature that screenshots everything you do (again), but only for select users

Microsoft’s controversial AI screenshotting tool, Recall, is back again after being, well, recalled numerous times. Nearly a year after its divisive announcement, Microsoft is finally rolling out Recall on Windows 11, but it’s still not available for most users (and you probably shouldn’t use it even if you do have access). Recall uses AI to…

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Romero Games reportedly met with Microsoft just a day before the publisher pulled funding for the studio, and there was ‘no mention’ of the decision that put over 100 people out of work

As reported by TheJournal.ie (via VGC), Doom designer John Romero and Wizardry 8 developer Brenda Romero’s studio, Romero Games, has fully closed following the withdrawal of publisher funding for its in-development FPS. Former employees have stated that the publisher in question was Microsoft, making Romero Games another casualty of the tech giant’s most recent round…

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