Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime's new company is putting Sea of Thieves-style shenanigans in space with a new crew-based shooter

Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime’s new company is putting Sea of Thieves-style shenanigans in space with a new crew-based shooter

After leaving the company in 2019, former Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime announced in 2020 that he’d founded Dreamhaven, a new game publisher seeking to “reimagine the studio model.” In 2024, Secret Door—the first of Dreamhaven’s two in-house studios staffed by Blizzard veterans—revealed Sunderfolk, a tabletop-inspired tactical RPG. Today, in a showcase presented by The Game…

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How does co-op work in Outbound?

I can’t imagine driving a camper van alone through the woods by myself, so fortunately I don’t have to in Outbound. The mobile base building adventure has enough room in the car for up to four players, but co-op in Outbound isn’t available quite from the moment you start the game. You’ll have to complete…

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Civ 7 is getting ‘by far the most-requested addition’ later this month, but I’m more interested in whether it’ll finally feel fully baked

Late last year, Firaxis announced that Civ 7 would be getting the ability to play a single civilization across an entire game, addressing one of the major complaints from players who weren’t thrilled with the latest entry’s ambitious experimentation with the Civilization format. After promising in February that Civ’s traditional playstyle would return sometime this…

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Grokipedia claims to be ‘a massive improvement over Wikipedia’ but sure loves to copy its homework

Grokipedia, xAI’sAI-powered online encyclopaedia, is now live. Version 0.1 features an extremely basic white-text-on-a-black-background look and stripped back page layouts, plus more than 885,000 articles. But despite Elon Musk’s recent claim that Grokipedia “will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia,” much of the content seems to have come directly from it (via The Verge). In…

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New On Antstream This Week: Food Fight & Raffles

Classic arcade gaming and an isometric adventure join the Antstream library. Continuing to add great games to the Antstream library, this week’s newly added titles are the arcade fun of Food Fight (Arcade) and the isometric adventure Raffles (Amiga). Atari’s Food Fight originally came to arcades in 1983. The game was later released for various…

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