What are your 2024 gaming resolutions?

What are your 2024 gaming resolutions?

Welcome to the sci-fi future year of 2024!  As the Earth turns and calendars are changed out, our thoughts turn inevitably to making some New Year’s resolutions. Surely this could be the year you finish your Steam backlog, clean up your gaming bad habits, or finally fix your terrible posture? All that’s needed is a…

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Dredge dev says a mechanic that killed NPCs without warning if you let them go hungry lasted for about 3 days after the game’s launch before they patched it out, because ‘people f*cking hated it’

Dredge was one of 2023’s out-of-left field indie greats—we gave it an 89 in our Dredge review, then later bestowed it with Best Setting award for our Game of the Year shoutouts. It wears that mantle well from what I’ve seen as a genuinely brilliant bit of bathophobia–inducing atmospheric horror, in which you man a…

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Talking Point: Smashing Switch 2 Numbers Prove Nintendo’s Strategy Is Super Effective

In this economy? Well played. The world of video games hasn’t provided much respite from global issues recently, not for those of us who love games and the people who make them. The issues facing the industry and players post-COVID — including mass layoffs, cancelled projects, questionable acquisitions, the encroachment of generative AI, rising prices,…

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Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P daydreams of more crossover events with Evangelion, Gundam, and especially Diablo: ‘I love it so much that I would want to make a Diablo game myself’

Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida loves Diablo. He’s talked about Blizzard games several times over the last several years, including when he named Diablo as his dream crossover for FF14 two years ago. If you’re worried he’s forgotten about it, don’t: in an interview with Techradar, Yoshida reiterated that he’d like nothing more than…

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Luna Lands on PS4 & PS VR June 18

Hi I’m Robin Hunicke, CEO and co-founder of Funomena, and I’m pleased today to announce that Luna’s new Storybook Edition will be available June 18 on PS4 and PS VR! This game is near and dear to my heart for many reasons. For starters, this marks Funomena’s first ever release for PlayStation. Martin Middleton and…

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