When you get to a certain age, birthdays stop being as meaningful as they were when you’re younger, but in the case of a certain Microsoft operating system, this one is very special. That’s because on 29 July 2015, Windows 10 was released to the public, and I’m happy to celebrate its tenth anniversary. I’m…
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Cyan announced the difficult news on social media. The legendary development studio Cyan Worlds — the creators of Myst and Riven — announced last Friday on the social media that it had been forced to lay off twelve talented staff members — roughly half its team (h/t: PC Gamer). This decision came about due to…
World of Warcraft’s getting its own player housing, which’ll be dropping either on—or just a little before—the release of its next expansion, Midnight. Blizzard’s been drip-feeding details over the past few months, mostly by subtly elbowing Final Fantasy 14 for the woes of its own system. The styling-on-Square Enix is proceeding apace. In a blog…
I recently sat down with Defect game director and former id Software artist, Emanuel Palalic, as well as composer Mick Gordon to discuss the upcoming cyberpunk FPS. One topic I wanted to get their thoughts on was optimization: Defect looks like a heavy game, but has surprisingly lenient specs—RTX 2060 minimum—and no mandatory ray tracing…
The generative AI wave has tech companies foaming at the mouth to get in while the getting’s good, and while that might be creating a disastrously huge financial bubble, it’s also changing the way companies operate. Microsoft has made it no secret that AI is non-negotiable for its employees, and it seems that EA is…
Concord is one of the most famous flameouts in videogame history: Years of development, hundreds of millions spent, and about two weeks of uptime before Sony decided it’d seen enough and took it all out behind the wood shed—the game, the studio, the dream—and put it to rest. But somehow, Concord returned. Not official Concord,…
Mario Kart once again appears twice in the top ten. The latest UK Charts data is in, and there’s honestly very little change in the top ten this week, with EA SPORTS FC 26 once again claiming the top spot. In fact, the top eight games have all played a bit of a switcheroo, while…
Oh no, I can feel it happening. I’m regressing to my 2016 self, PlayStation Vita in one hand and a teeny-tiny Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair cartridge in the other. What began as little more than a time-kill opportunity—I had purchased the Sony handheld and a copy of the first Danganronpa in a desperate attempt to…
There’s never been a better time to jump into Ghost Recon Wildlands as Operation Oracle brings new, free story content to PS4 players on May 2. Adding two new missions that you can tackle solo or with up to three friends in four-player co-op, Operation Oracle will task the Ghosts with rescuing a Skell Tech…