Compared to the PAXes or even MAGFests of the world, Awesome Games Done Quick is itsy bitsy. Around 2,000 speedrunners and fans mill about in Pittsburgh’s Wyndham Grand hotel, with a theater where ...
Another week, another series of reminders that the video game industry is in serious trouble. Pillars once thought unshakeable are collapsing right and left as AI renders hardware unaffordable to all ...
Share to X Share to Bluesky Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share by email This, if you ask me, is what should happen any time a company is forced to pull the plug on a server-based game: Let ...
After over a decade of building to this moment, Warframe is finally headed to Tau, the solar system where its vast, endearingly strange narrative began. Tau isn’t just a quest or an area to roam; it ...
Take last week (and this is data from ICO Partners CEO Thomas Bidaux, as reported by GI.biz) for example, when 720 games were ...
If there's been one depressing theme to a lot of popular culture news lately--beyond the obviously bad stuff like AI and labour conditions--it's been the increasingly dystopian way that rights holders ...
Let’s say you’ve already spent some time in the United States Army, a vicious colonial project that in recent years has been weaponized by a government with even more openly fascistic tendencies than ...
Layoffs once again hit games outlet GameSpot on Thursday. Owner Fandom cut the site’s entire commerce team, as well as vice president of games and entertainment Chris Grant. Also laid off today was ...
Tie Me Up, Stare Me Down, by Zawayuki Taki, follows the relationship between two office workers crushed under the weight of the marketing and sales department. While boss Sawada survives the onslaught ...
“Unc” is, apparently, the latest gamer term or gen Z slang to enter our common parlance. Articles have argued it originated recently, from young people, who use it as an insult to old people. Except ...
When Dark Souls II came out in 2014, I previewed and reviewed it for Kotaku. After I played the Looking Glass Knight demo at E3, I gushed to a friend that they had not fucked it up. This had been a ...
Ziff Davis, the media company that currently owns IGN (along with Eurogamer, RPS and more) has laid off a number of IGN staff just two months ahead of the launch of Grand Theft Auto VI, one of the ...