Intel quietly bumps the price up of the best CPUs it's made in years to 'reflect current market dynamics'

Ori creator declares Xbox Game Pass a mediocre slop factory that’s ‘a little like Communism’

Xbox is under fire yet again. It’s teasing layoffs as part of a “reset”, reportedly closing Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and more, and it can’t present a coherent plan—all just days after unveiling upcoming games at its Xbox Games Showcase. Rightfully, Xbox has been criticised by industry figures in response, including a former PlayStation exec….

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Dealing trillions of damage in Diablo 4 isn’t a problem worth worrying about as long as ‘there’s something that makes it meaningful’, game director says: ‘I know a lot of it is from fear’

Big damage numbers and Diablo 4 are practically synonymous at this point. That’s the nature of a game where the goal is to multiply your numbers up high enough that nothing can stop you. Other action RPGs tend to keep things constrained to millions or billions of damage, oftentimes not even showing the damage you…

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Ahead of its January launch, one of the best city builders around is getting a free demo that ‘allows you to play endlessly’ with some of the new features coming next year

Medeival city builder Foundation will exit nearly five years of early access development when it releases on January 31, 2025. To celebrate, the developers have released a free demo that lets you check out the game’s unique gridless playstyle that has you zone areas for your villagers to make their own choices in and forge…

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The Elder Scrolls Online’s director says doing the same-old yearly patch cycle wasn’t ‘going to cut it’ if the MMO developer ‘wanted to have a shot at reaching that 30-year mark’

The Elder Scrolls Online‘s going through a big shift—with subclassing falling somewhat short and a difficult year for Zenimax in the rearview, its developers have decided to shake things up. Going from a yearly “chapter” formula to a seasonal structure where, in a recent conversation I had with executive producer Susan Kath and game director…

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Valve buys fan favourite Counter-Strike map from creator: ‘They reached out to buy it on day 1…. a great honor and I don’t want anyone to think we hesitated for one moment’

Cache co-creator Shawn “FMPHONE” Snelling has announced that Valve has bought the map outright, following its addition to the CS2 Workshop in early March, and a mention in the background of the game’s latest update. Responding to player Aqua saying “this pretty much confirms that Valve bought Cache,” FMPHONE confirmed the news: “Thank you for…

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