On March 31st, Boss Fight Books confirmed that it had acquired enough funds via its Kickstarter campaign to go forward with its latest project, a book about the 1997 strategy game Age of Empires, written by Richard Moss, an Australian gaming historian whose work is catalogued on his website here. Richard Moss has already interviewed…
Nightdive VP of business development, Larry Kuperman, has announced his retirement from full-time work in the games industry. Kuperman’s 25-year career in games took him from publisher Stardock to retailer GameStop, but his most defining work was with the preservation specialists at Nightdive. I had the chance to speak with Kuperman about his career and…
French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir, with support from the Stop Killing Games initiative, has filed a lawsuit against Ubisoft over the 2024 shutdown of the racing game The Crew. An announcement on the UFC-Que Choisir (Google translated) says Ubisoft’s decision to close the game and revoke licenses “violated fundamental consumer rights,” and that “players were…
Out of this world? Critic reviews for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie have just dropped ahead of the film’s theatrical release tomorrow, 1st April 2026. And, folks, it looks like it’s another mixed bag if early reviews are to go by. We haven’t had a chance to watch the movie early, and we’ll have our…
It’s a big day for World of Warcraft secret finders. The final steps of a puzzle that took them over a year to solve have been discovered. Specifically, the 11th and 12th orbs that surround the mysterious Felcycle mount have been lit and the secret is, well, no longer a secret. A little over a…
With its latest patch for Marathon, Bungie has decided that the haunting, derelict expanse of Tau Ceti IV is stressful enough without any adrenaline-crazed acrobats launching themselves across your screen like frenzied, gun-toting cybergibbons. Marathon is now, officially, a No Movement Freak Zone. In its patch notes for Marathon update 1.0.5.2, Bungie says it’s fixed…
No medal for Sega. Almost out of the blue, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 has been delisted from the Switch eShop in a number of countries. As reported by Nintendo Everything, the 2019 Switch release is unavailable to purchase on the digital storefront in North America, Japan, and Australia. It’s still…
For one day only. A one-day event comes to Pokémon Pokopia on 1st April 2026, celebrating both April Fool’s Day and Sudowoodo, the imitation Pokémon. From 5am local time on 1st April until 5am on 2nd April, you’ll be able to participate in a fun little game called the Imitation Quiz (thanks, Serebii). Read the…
This lapsed Arc Raiders player was not ready for the Flashpoint update. I hopped into a Blue Gate match with the new Close Scrutiny condition aiming to have a firsthand encounter with the Vaporizer, the fresh ARC drone unleashed topside. Mistake! The first thing I witnessed upon emerging from spawn was the crimson glow of…
I’ve always been a fan of the idea of Cyberpunk 2077’s ripperdocs and their many counterparts across fictional cyberpunk dystopias. It’s a lovely bit of backwards-working worldbuilding: you want every thug and gangster on the street to have a metal limb and robot eyes because it looks rad, but how do you explain where they’re…