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Video games, or more so the people who play them, I suppose, have this annoying thing where they assign a genre name as an insult. I don’t want to reignite the discourse around JRPG as a term, but it certainly was used in quite a derisive and othering manner in its earlier years. The term walking sim was used more as a point of ironic degradation, even though it was perfectly apt in many ways. Then there’s Eurojank, a sort of real but not technically real genre that describes ambitious but imperfect games made by European developers. And Andrii…
Where can you find Arc Raiders blueprints? Topside can, in theory, provide everything you need in Arc Raiders. The only issue, really, is that topside is also full of Arc drones that want to fill you with bullets, and a ton of players that likely want to do the same. Becoming self-sufficient is vital for success, but for that, you’ll need blueprints. The thrill of seeing a blueprint pop up in Arc Raiders is hard to beat – downing huge, robotic enemies and turning the tides on a Raider ambush are all very well and good, but knowing you’ve secured…
Amazon’s Spring Sale is a great time for finding the best Nintendo Switch 2 headsets at a more reasonable price, but the Turtle Beach Airlite Fit was already reasonable to begin with. Its MSRP is only $27.99, which is as budget-friendly as they come for wired headsets, especially ones draped in fancy official Switch 2 colors.If that’s still more than you wanted to fork out on a headset, the Spring Sale has knocked its price down to $19.74 (Amazon) today. That’s still strangely not a record-low, as there are still a few cents to go until it reaches its lowest…
The mystery of what you should price your game is one that I am sure will continue to remain mostly unsolved. There’s just no right answer, and to make matters worse, there’s currencies other than your own to consider. On Steam there have been plenty of occasions where regional pricing differences haven’t gone down well, primarily due to games costing too much based on local wages. However, a new Steam update should now make it easier for devs to set better regional prices. For starters, according to this blog post, new pricing data will be available to developers…
A Final Fantasy 9 remake has long been rumored and even hinted at, but one prominent leaker is claiming that Square Enix’s not-yet-official revival has been shelved for now.Normally reliable leaker NateTheHate has been a trusted, unofficial source for the Nintendo community for a long while, frequently and accurately spilling the tea on Nintendo Directs and the exact random afternoon that the Switch 2 would be properly unveiled. He’s now dished out on things he’s heard about the best Final Fantasy ever made (I don’t make the rules.)”The last update I had on it is that the game is still…
A Warhorse Studios employee alleges the Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 developer “fired” him and is replacing his job with AI.Max Hejtmanek took to the game’s official subreddit, in a post verified by Reddit moderators, to share that Warhorse Studios is apparently terminating his position. Hejtmanek worked at the developer as a Czech-to-English translator for nearly four years, contributing to Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, its various DLCs, and some of its marketing materials.”Yesterday, March 27th 2026, with no forewarning, I was invited to a meeting and promptly told that, in an effort to ‘make the company more effective’ and ‘save finances’,…
It sounds like Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 developer Warhorse Studios’ future projects won’t be translated entirely by human hands. Earlier today, a Reddit post was shared to the game’s subreddit from Max Hejtmánek, a Czech to English translator and editor on the developer’s most recent game, where he claimed that yesterday, March 27th, he was laid off “in favour of using AI for all translations going forward.” The post, which was verified by one of the mods of the subreddit, explained that Hejtmánek was “invited to a meeting and promptly told that, in an effort to ‘make the…
Many Arc Raiders developers at Embark Studios are such PvP demons that they have to force themselves into the community-named Care Bear mindset in order to better understand the surprisingly large group of friendly players who keep the game’s community so peaceful. In an interview at GDC, production director Caio Braga tells me that he and several other devs use a randomizer to pick their play style for the day, ensuring a more even spread during testing.It’s not that everybody at Embark will shoot any raider on sight before they can even get out the “don’t” in “don’t shoot.” It’s…
The problem with playtesting is that it is impossible to predict every last thing any given person may do once a game is out in the wild. It’s an imperfect science where you do the best you can in the moment. I imagine a live service game like Arc Raiders to be extra difficult, given how many playstyles need to be accounted for. And based on a recent interview, it sounds like some of the team at Embark took an approach that involved a randomiser determining their own playstyle from day to day to make sure they weren’t just…
Since its arrival in the early mid-2000s, many of us (myself included) just took social media for granted as a harmless communication tool. However, since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, more and more people are becoming aware of the harm that the likes of Facebook and Instagram have done, and continue to do to this day. These sorts of things are exactly why VPN use has grown in recent years. Most recently, a court case has found that both Meta (parent company of Facebook and Instagram) and YouTube are guilty of knowingly creating an addictive product, which has ended up harming…