At today’s DICE Summit, a gathering of industry veterans paid tribute to Call of Duty and Titanfall co-creator Vince Zampella, who died in December. Joining the likes of Todd Howard, Randy Pitchford and Ted Price was Hideo Kojima, who, according to Gamefile, sought advice from Zampella when founding his own studio Kojima Productions. “He gave…
I sometimes have trouble keeping track of all the different Starship Troopers games out there, but the upcoming Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War stands out for a couple reasons. One, it’s being made by Auroch Digital, developer of the very excellent Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, and two, there’s now a demo on Steam so you can…
To spare myself the psychic turmoil, I decided to accept years ago that Half-Life 3 will never happen. Best case scenario, I get to be delighted by being proven wrong. Worst case, I’m sparing myself from the cyclical mass psychosis of reading an imminent Half-Life 3 announcement in whatever tea leaves we’ve convinced ourselves exist….
Not to sound like an old coot (though I am) but there’s at least one aspect of gaming that used to be a lot harder. If you got stuck on an adventure game puzzle in the 1980s, you couldn’t just ask the entire world for help: the internet hadn’t been invented yet. You just had…
I’ve spent an undisclosed, embarrassing number of days playing Final Fantasy 14, and Steam says I’ve got 370+ hours logged in Phasmophobia. So, what better way is there to lure me into your Eorzean personal quarters than with a Final Fantasy 14 housing tribute to Phasmophobia’s most beloved map? There isn’t one; that’s the perfect…
There’s a lot going on in games that we’re not supposed to see, such as the invisible bunnies that make World of Warcraft work. In the case of hit RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, it turns out that some of those dramatic cutscenes are happening in the midst of unseen limb chaos, as evidenced by…
Mewgenics, the cat-breeding brawler from Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel, is a big game. Senior editor Robin Valentine wrote in his review (92%, by the way) that “after three weeks and over 100 hours of Mewgenics taking over my personal life, it’s still surprising me every run.” In case that’s not sufficiently convincing, McMillen himself…
Extinction. Just over two years after it was released on Switch and other platforms, Limited Run Games’ Jurassic Park: Classic Games Collection is getting delisted from digital storefronts. The publisher and distributor announced the news on Steam (thanks Wario64) earlier today. From 31st March 2026, you’ll no longer be able to purchase the game digitally….
The many wonders of Dwarf Fortress are products of its complexity. The intricate interplay of fantasy simulation systems generate uniquely rich moments: Fortress mayhem can provoke a rash of traumatic baby hauntings, goblin highwaymen can be grabbed and thrashed about by their individual teeth, and—as one Dwarf Fortress player recently discovered—sometimes your soldiers might just…
Alas, poor Cube World. Your future felt so bright twice (thrice?) upon a time, when you popped out of the blue with so many brazen promises and then fizzled out in mere weeks. The reality of playing Cube World in 2019 was pretty dismal, but the underlying concept has always crackled with promise—a voxel-based, procedurally…