Historical strategy games are used to complaints about inaccuracies: wrong coat of arms, wrong dynasty, wrong border. But accusing a game of showing reality better than a modern atlas is a different level entirely. Especially...

Ken Kutaragi is best known as the father of the PlayStation. He led development of the PS1, PS2, and PS3, then left Sony in 2007. Now he runs an AI firm and believes video games...

Bulkhead used the Season 2 patch notes for Wardogs to take on faction balance. The blue team, Lonestar, remains the least popular side, so the studio added targeted bonuses to lure players in. The developers...

The Commonwealth in Fallout 4 was never known for good weather. Leaden skies, a greenish haze, and radiation storms have long been the calling card of postnuclear Boston. Getting a normal, clear day over the...

A good RPG companion watches your back, carries your loot, and stays out of the way of your sword. Serana from Skyrim watches your back too, just in her own way: mid-fight, with half a...

A user named Sliderv2 has uploaded a YouTube video that appears to show recovered cut content from Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced. The short post-credits scene runs a little over a minute and shows Edward...

Brandon Thomas, the developer behind ArtCraft, has unveiled a replacement for the Microsoft Office suite. ArtCraft is a set of free, open-source creative tools that replicate Adobe applications. The collection now includes three programs meant...

Gamer SAPianoman490 showed off the result of a year of work: two retro PCs built from scratch, each tuned for its own era. Shortcuts for almost 130 games released between 1996 and 2008 fit across...

Procedural generation is basically an endless dice roll. Most of the time it lands on another barren rock with a few bushes and a lonely terminal somewhere past the horizon. Every so often, though, the...

Computer graphics age too fast. Effects that dropped jaws in the 2000s now often look like a PlayStation 2 cutscene. But one monster seems to have dodged the clock, and it's the fire demon crawling...

Procedural generation loves throwing out surprises that no scriptwriter would come up with. Sometimes it's a rare anomaly or a lucky neighbor, and sometimes it's pure chaos, like a planet of savages with stone axes...

Insider Cyberleek has posted another big Grand Theft Auto 6 leak, this time with more than five minutes of open-world gameplay starring Lucia Caminos, one of the two protagonists. You can watch the GTA 6...

Enthusiasts have released an unofficial native port of Bloodborne for PC. Called bbport, it lets players run one of the most sought-after PS4 exclusives on Windows and Linux without console emulation. Bloodborne was developed by...

Graphics age faster than anything else in games. One day a title wows with its tech, and the next its screenshots draw a condescending smile. Sometimes the opposite happens, though, and a game nearly fifteen...

Among the best parts of the Analogue Pocket is openFPGA, a fancy name for its support of open-source, homebrew emulators built by enthusiasts. But like seemingly every corner of the retro dev scene, the makers...

Daedric artifacts in Skyrim are meant to be one of a kind. Each one comes at the end of a long quest, and owning one is supposed to make the hero special. Sometimes, though, the...

With GTA 6 close to launch, the Grand Theft Auto community has fixated on numbers that look almost impossible today. Veteran developer Del Walker, who worked at Naughty Dog and Respawn, shared an archived 2006...

Role-playing games have always followed their own real estate rules. Saving up for a modest place is almost never worth it: wiping out a couple of gangs and taking over their mansion is cheaper and...

Google is facing scrutiny in Finland. According to local regulators, the US corporation started large-scale forest clearing for new data center infrastructure before the mandatory environmental impact assessment of the full plan was finished. In...

The most coveted consoles in collections often never hit store shelves. People pay thousands of dollars for a huge V-shaped box that won't even run its main menu without Sony's permission. One collector showed off...