Kojima Productions CTO explains why the studio has stuck with Decima engine for nearly a decade
Kojima Productions CTO Akio Sakamoto spoke about the advantages of Guerrilla Games' Decima engine, which the studio has been using for the Death Stranding series. When the developers were looking for the right technological foundation...
Blizzard will immortalize 300 Diablo II: Resurrected players on a monument at its office
Blizzard announced a major challenge for Diablo II: Resurrected players. With the release of the Reign of the Warlock expansion, the studio is launching a competition with a one-of-a-kind reward – winners will have their...
Demo for The Eternal Life of Goldman is out now on Steam
Weappy Studio, the team behind the This Is the Police series, has released a demo for its upcoming platformer The Eternal Life of Goldman, available now on Steam. The demo runs about 90 minutes and...
New Xbox CEO with no gaming background promises next-gen console and speaks out against 'soulless AI slop'
Asha Sharma, who has just taken over as Microsoft Gaming CEO from Phil Spencer, published a letter to employees outlining her vision for "the return of Xbox" – with a clear focus on console hardware...
Phil Spencer retiring from Xbox after 25 years, to be replaced by Microsoft AI executive
Microsoft announced a major leadership shakeup at Xbox. Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer is retiring, and Xbox president Sarah Bond is also leaving the company. Asha Sharma, formerly president of Microsoft's CoreAI division, has been...
Warp to Sector One is a deep space trading game inspired by 80s sci-fi computer aesthetics
Indie studio hextor.Games is working on its debut game Warp to Sector One – a deep space trading game inspired by the aesthetics of 80s sci-fi films and the classic text-based game Trade Wars 2002....
A fan built a tool for writing your own stories inside Elite Dangerous, and thousands of players are already testing it
Elite Dangerous is one of the few live-service games that's still going strong after twelve years, and its community keeps finding ways to surprise everyone. That's exactly what happened with MetaElite – a fan-built tool...
A first-time Fallout player found 10,000 caps in the first hour – and it's not a bug, it's a rare Luck 10 event
The Luck stat in the Fallout series is more than just a number on a character sheet. It's a system that literally rewrites the rules depending on how many points you invest in it, producing...
Developer shows how Esoteric Ebb transformed after signing with a publisher
Kristoffer Bodegård, a solo developer from Sweden, shared a side-by-side comparison of inventory screenshots from his CRPG Esoteric Ebb – one from 2023, when he was working alone, and the current version made with the...
Christopher Judge hints at a new Santa Monica announcement coming late summer
The actor who played Kratos in God of War 2018, Christopher Judge, let slip details about an upcoming announcement from Santa Monica Studios. Speaking with YouTuber Fuzhpuzy at a fan expo, Judge said: "You'll be...
Devil Daggers turns 10: only 1,472 players have survived 500 seconds, and a sequel is now confirmed
Ten years ago, the indie survival FPS Devil Daggers had gaming outlets around the world hooked. The concept is about as stripped-back as it gets: you stand on a flat, featureless arena and beat back...
Soviet-era Romanian horrors on display in the Dread Eagle reveal trailer
Two solo developers and publisher Galactic Crows have dropped the debut trailer for horror game Dread Eagle, set against the backdrop of Soviet-era Romania. The footage showcases eerie nurses and various experiment subjects rendered in...
Todd Howard says AI is 'not a fad' but won't use it to replace handcrafted human creativity
Todd Howard – game director of Elder Scrolls 6 and Fallout 5 – has weighed in on AI in game development, and his position is one of careful observation. In a February 18 interview with...
ARC Raiders devs will keep developing PvP despite the game's strong PvE-oriented audience
Embark Studios developers behind ARC Raiders have admitted they were shocked – and pleasantly surprised – by player behavior since launch. The game's 14 million-strong community has earned a reputation as one of the friendliest...
Embark Studios is finally adding beards to ARC Raiders
Embark Studios has revealed more details about the upcoming Shrouded Sky update for ARC Raiders, which is set to drop next week. Alongside a teaser trailer showcasing the new 'Hurricane' map condition, the studio released...
League of Legends may finally be getting team voice chat – 17 years after launch
Dataminer SkinSpotlights has found new lines of code in the files for patch 26.5 (16.5) of League of Legends that suggest team voice chat may be on the way. Among the discovered lines, two stand...
Civilization 7 players are still struggling with its unreadable UI almost a year after launch
Nearly a year after launch, Sid Meier's Civilization 7 players are still pointing out UI issues that have yet to be addressed. The latest wave of complaints was sparked by a screenshot of the leader...
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 photo mode turned players into big-headed monster makers
The photo mode in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is so unrestricted that it's spawned genuine monstrosities – courtesy of both the developers during testing and players after release. Sandfall Interactive published a dev blog detailing...
Baldur's Gate 3 player uncovered the chilling meaning behind the game's iconic music through cut content
When players first launch Baldur's Gate 3 and reach the character creation screen, they're asked to design the Dream Guardian – a mysterious figure who visits the protagonist in their sleep. What few people realize...
Paid Warlock class broke the balance in Diablo 2, and the community is split on what to do about it
It's been about a week since the surprise release of the first new class in Diablo 2 in years, and initial reactions to the Warlock have been broadly positive. Now, though, the community is divided...
