Every few months the No Man’s Sky community gets a treat: a new update is announced that introduces new features and systems for the sci-fi sandbox. Something else that happens every few months: the Light No Fire community gets its hopes up that the announcement will actually be about Hello Games’ upcoming Earth-sized fantasy sandbox….
Before we even knew what it was called, Assassin’s Creed Shadows had a target on its back. Culture warriors have been frothing over the casting of historical Black samurai Yasuke as one of the protagonists ever since the first screenshot leaked, prompting several ill-advised attempts by Ubisoft to defang the haters concerned about “historical accuracy.”…
2025 has been a rather heated year for genAI and its ever-increasing use in videogames. Most recently, the year’s awards darling Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was disqualified from the Indie Game Awards for making use of generative AI during development and Larian’s admission of using genAI “to explore ideas” at the studio has caused ripples…
Samsung has announced a slew of new gaming monitors and on paper, the big news is a glasses-free 3D model. However, it’s a new lower-cost version of Samsung’s 49-inch ultrawide OLED that could be most interesting in the real world. The Odyssey 3D G90XF is a 27-inch 4K model with, “advanced eye-tracking technology and a…
The whole external graphics card thing is one of those technologies that sounds super appealing, but tends to fall down on practicalities like price and performance. But I gotta admit, this new Kickstarter-funded eGPU dock based on Thunderbolt 5 is incredibly slick and has enough features that you could almost view the eGPU bit as…
The marketing campaign begins. We’re slowly learning more about the upcoming live-action Legend of Zelda movie, and following the reveal of the first cast members in July, it appears an official social media account has now been opened on the platform X (formerly known as Twitter). It’s tagged as @The_Zelda_Movie and in the bio mentions…
Top Deal: A good set of headphones is a must for any gamer. However, there are times when you want to immerse yourself in true 5.1 surround sound with strategically placed speakers. Yeah, the significant other may not like hearing your late night gaming sessions, and maybe you’ll wake the baby, but just crank up…
A wild adventure of tropical typhoons, insane litigation, and fish testicles. Ten years ago, I was given the great privilege of living in Japan for three months to interview a diverse and eclectic range of game developers. This would produce three volumes in the The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers series (plus a DVD)….
Five and a half years after its 2020 Game Awards reveal, Crimson Desert has remained something of a mystery. Developer Pearl Abyss has promised a growing collection of mechanics and playstyles so bafflingly dense that it’s still hard to picture how exactly it’s all meant to fit together. Thanks to a freshly announced release date,…
This is Lindsey, game director at Timberline Studio. Today, I’d like to tell you more about how the concept of flavor is integral to how we built our cooking and gameplay systems in Beastro, our upcoming crunchy-cozy deck builder, coming to PS5 in Spring 2026. We know that’s a lot to unpack up there, so…