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We just got our first major update for the year on Riot’s long (long, long) awaited League of Legends MMO, as former World of Warcraft producer Raymond Bartos has announced that he’s joined the project. Bartos’s announcement highlights his reuniting with engineer Orlando Salvatore, after the two worked together on some of the better-received features of modern WoW, including Plunderstorm and the gear update.”From my very first conversation with Riot,” Bartos says on Twitter, “I immediately gravitated toward their values—and I was genuinely impressed by how clearly those values showed up throughout the interview process. It made it obvious that…
Butchering “Butchering Pathologic” is a series of articles on Pathologic 3, inspired by Quintin Smith’s peerless retrospective for the original game. The following contains abstracted discussion of my own experiences of disease.
When can you download Arknights Endfield? Right now, in fact! While we’ve still got a little while to go until we can start our industrious journey on Talos-II, developer Hypergryph has given eager players the ability to pre-download Arknights Endfield ahead of launch. If you’ve been counting down the hours until release in your time zone, this is all the preparation you need. No matter the strength of your internet connection, there’s still plenty of time to install Arknights Endfield so you can get into the gacha game at the exact time of release. This pre-download requires a little more…
A new podcast, ‘Good Game Club’ was launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday, aiming to promote positive conversations around play and the video games industry.Good Game Club is hosted by Playmob CEO, Jude Ower MBE, and SYBO CEO, Mathias Gredal Nørvig, who wrote the book ‘Gaming for Good’ in 2024, which set out to demystify gaming and how the medium can be a force for good. A cut of sales went to climate projects.The podcast is supported by a “a strategic partnership” with Tencent, according to the WEF announcement, which says the two share “ambitions to…
Baldur’s Gate 3 actor Neil Newbon, who plays Astarion in the hit 2023 RPG, is once again making it very clear he doesn’t want generative AI anywhere near his video games.Of course, Newbon has never been shy to share his feelings on AI, having previously said it “sucks,” “doesn’t work very well,” and “sounds crap” alongside other more expletive-laden repudiations.During the finale of his 126-part YouTube video series in which he played through the entire game, Newbon once again ripped into the prospect of generative AI being used in video game development, specifically because when amazing games like Baldur’s Gate…
As we sink ever deeper into a squelching mire of memory shortages, price gouging, and abandonment in favour of AI fantasy farms, there is one word above all that game-playing PC owners should keep front and centre in our doomscroll-addled brains: “relatively.”
In (kind of) the immortal words of K-Pop Demon Hunters: “fit check for my D&D era.” Yes, that headline is very real: Wizards of the Coast has partnered with Epic Games to bring its iconic fantasy world to Fortnite, adding five new islands inspired by D&D, built by Fortnite creators. If you’ve ever wondered what the Yawning Portal would look like in Epic’s battle royale game, this collab has you covered, and I won’t lie, it’s inspired me to brush the dust off of my Spacefarer Ariana Grande skin. As mentioned, these new Fortnite islands have been brought to life…
Nintendo of America’s recently retired president and COO, Doug Bowser, has joined the board of directors of toy giant Hasbro.Hasbro is the American entertainment and holding company behind Wizards of the Coast, Transformers, Monopoly, Nerf, Peppa Pig, and countless other household names in toys and gaming.Bowser joins the Hasbro board after having retired from his Nintendo position just weeks ago, on December 31, 2025. The exec spent six years as NOA’s boss, overseeing the launch of Nintendo Switch 2 and the company’s significant expansion in licensed merchandise.Bowser’s role at Nintendo was replaced by Devon Pritchard, the long-serving marketeer who joined…
Luke Cage actor Mike Colter is ready to join the MCU, as he and the vigilante have “unfinished business.””Listen, I will say this, I’ve had conversations… and I’ll leave it at that,” Colter said on the On That Note Podcast (via IGN). “Because when it wrapped… y’know I loved playing Luke Cage but I love acting and doing different things. So I just was like, ‘I’ll do something else.’ I love the fans and I love that world. And it’s been years now. So now, I’m doing other projects, but now I think to myself ‘I have some unfinished business…
Rubato is “an experimental, 2D physics-based take on the collect-a-thon genre”, according to developer dconn, which doesn’t really do justice to the below trailer full of screaming skulls and Mode 7 first-person driving bits and fleeting Minecraft references and PS1-era dancefloors. I guess I’m too used to the watering down of “experimental” as a descriptor. The blurb doesn’t even communicate that you play as a frog. Seemingly. Fortunately, there is a demo. Please watch the trailer while I go play it.