Hassles with credit card processors over adult content isn’t the only payment headache Steam is facing these days. Valve is also getting grief from PayPal, which is no longer being accepted as a form of payment in much of the world. Going by posts about the problem in the Steam subreddit, the issue was first…
Back in September, more than a few indie developers pushed back their release dates by a few weeks or months to get out of the way of the arrival of Hollow Knight: Silksong, which they feared would suck up all of gamingdom’s attention. And maybe that was the right call, but one side effect has…
Temple Maker 64 is developed by one person. We’re baffled that, somehow, Nintendo hasn’t given us a proper Zelda dungeon maker. No, the Chamber Dungeon in Link’s Awakening on Switch quite scratch the itch. So thank goodness for indie developers, huh? Temple Maker 64 (spotted via Dexerto) is looking to fill that gap with a…
Category: Playtests August 28, 2025 Project Evilbane Pre-Alpha Playtest Will Begin Tomorrow! Tim, Xbox Program Manager The first pre-alpha playtest of Project Evilbane will begin tomorrow in the Xbox Insider Hub! During this 3-day test, we hope to gather your valuable feedback and further refine the game into a more polished experience. Gather around if…
Hello VR friends! Let’s talk visuals today! We sat down with Sebastian Brueckner and Jamie Alexander Smith, Art Director and Animation Lead on Astro Bot Rescue Mission, respectively, to give you a bit of insight on how the game’s visual style came to life. Starting with environments, the stages were first created by game designers…
Just a couple weeks after Google seemingly spooked game company investors with its AI-powered “world model” Project Genie, engine maker Unity says it’s chasing the same digital dragon, and that “AI-driven authoring” will be one of its major focuses in 2026. “At the Game Developer Conference in March, we’ll be unveiling the beta of the…
Talk to a Path of Exile player and they’ll tell you they’re still a new player after 3,000 hours. By all accounts, PoE is the most action RPG you can find. It has over a decade of systems layered on top of each other, a web of complexity that you’d probably only understand if you…
Hi! Our names are Uli Wanitschke, Game Director for Silence, and Marco Hüllen, Lead Designer of the game. Together with a team of approximately 20 highly talented developers, we’re making Marco’s concept for Silence: The Whispered World 2 become a reality. We’re all huge adventure game fans here at Daedalic Entertainment. We grew up with…
Total War: Warhammer 3’s long-awaited Tides of Torment DLC is finally due on December 4, and like other recent expansions it’ll be available as three separate add-ons—each containing a new legendary lord and army—and as a bundle combining all three at a discount. Those three seem like they’ll play quite differently, as Creative Assembly’s latest…
In 2015, you died in Bermuda. In 2018, you died in Vinland. And I’m sorry to say that your luck’s not going to get any better in 2025, as you and your small crew fling yourselves into the cold void of space so you can die again, this time in an entirely different solar system….