Star Wars Pinball: Star Wars Rebels Coming to Zen Pinball 2

ESO devs at ZeniMax reel from Microsoft’s ‘hollow’ layoff emails, with some wondering how a ‘carcass of workers’ is ‘supposed to keep shipping award-winning games’

It’s with precious little pleasure that I sit here and try to find a new way to say ‘the games industry has had a rough couple of years’ without cannibalising my own work—if you’ve been following along, you already know the score. Mass layoffs, studio closures, and (most recently) a whopping 9,000 layoffs at Microsoft,…

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AMD brings Threadripper back to the desktop with a new non-Pro range of monster chips… that I’m going to now call Wallet-ripper

It’s long been expected that AMD would announce a Zen 4-based, Ryzen 7000-series Threadripper Pro family. That announcement date is today. But while Threadripper Pro was expected, less expected was the announcement of the return of non-Pro Threadripper for desktops after killing it in the last generation. AMD has done just that, saying “We hear…

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Disney says that Kingdom Hearts is now a ‘billion dollar franchise’

In an investor-focused article on the Walt Disney Company website, the entertainment giant revealed an achievement that caught me off-guard: Kingdom Hearts, the mesmerizingly strange Final Fantasy x Disney crossover series, numbers among the company’s “billion-dollar franchises.” The article, “How Games Are Helping Shape Disney’s Next Chapter,” looks to be a combination victory lap/game plan…

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The creator of popular animated short The Backwater Gospel is making an FPS inspired by ‘Half-Life and the golden age of narrative first person shooters’

Animator Bo Mathorne, creator of the 2011 animated short, Backwater Gospel, has revealed a new game project alongside developer Thomas Mygind: Skarven, a crunchy, lo-fi (but not too lo-fi) FPS inspired by narrative-heavy late ’90s/early aughts shooters like Half-Life. Skarven’s first trailer is all mood and light on action. The player approaches a lonely country…

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