The inside story of Atari’s battle with Nintendo. We recently had the extraordinary good fortune to sit down recently for a chat with video game industry veteran Lawrence Siegel to discuss his amazing career and his fascinating battle with Nintendo during his tenure at Atari. Siegel oversaw the release of the Atari Lynx, a powerful…
Doom is a cultural cornerstone, where every new piece of tech (gaming or otherwise) and every game is forced to somehow—no matter how impossible—run Doom. It’s a test, and we’ve seen the 1993 classic on everything from a motherboard’s BIOS, old potatoes, a Lego brick, to a home pregnancy test, and even Doom running inside…
World of Warcraft is a big, dense, complicated game with a lot of little instances of utter nonsense—you get that sort of thing when you’re two decades old with over a dozen expansions. But this one has to be the funniest quirk I’ve seen out of the MMO in a while. Turns out, if you’re…
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2K Games studio 31st Union has confirmed the layoff of an undisclosed number of employees, first reported by GamesIndustry, as it continues to develop Project Ethos, the free-to-play hero shooter announced in 2024. In a memo sent to 31st Union employees and shared with PC Gamer, 31st Union studio head Ben Brinkman, who left Respawn…
Jurassic World Evolution Complete Edition was announced today during the pre-show for Gamescom Live 2020 for the Nintendo Switch. The game will be arriving on the popular platform on 3rd November. The game sees you manage your own Jurassic Park and it’s developed by the established team at Frontier Development. Here’s what to expect! “Take…
SAG-AFTRA, a large US-based union covering a ton of performing talent across multiple industries, has finally reached a “tentative agreement” with a series of major companies after 10 months of strike action. The strike, which began July 26 of 2024, is still ongoing until details are finalised—but there’s a light at the end of the…
Hey everyone, I’m Dan Smith – representing 100% of Dan Smith Studios. I’m a British developer based in Newcastle and today, in collaboration with my publisher Ripstone, I’m delighted to be announcing my first game: The Spectrum Retreat. The Spectrum Retreat is a narrative-driven first person puzzle game coming to PS4 this summer. You wake…
If Thursday’s Wordle is putting up a fight, our hint for today’s game might be just the thing you need to get it tamed. Need something more to the point? Congrats, you’ve got it. The answer to the November 21 (1251) Wordle is waiting below. Wow, OK, I guess that’s today’s Wordle over then? My…
We may rarely think about them, but A.I. systems can fundamentally alter the gameplay experience. In order to build Call of Duty: Black Ops 3‘s four-player cooperative campaign, the team at Treyarch had to completely overhaul its A.I. technology and rethink how it influences combat, storytelling, and level design, all the while maintaining the cinematic…