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I’m going to keep this one as succinct as possible, because every word is causing me psychic damage. Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has alleged that an ongoing lawsuit accusing him of rushing Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard to avoid the fallout from company-wide sexual misconduct allegations was, in fact, secretly orchestrated by noted layoff manufacturer Embracer Group to boost sales of Embracer’s own games. As reported by Game File, a Swedish pension fund called Sjunde AP-Fonden, aka AP7, filed the lawsuit in Delaware’s Court of Chancery in 2022. The suit names Microsoft, Activision Blizzard and the company’s…
There are many sub-genres among the best strategy games on PC. Nestled within each are myriad experiences that will push your lateral thinking to the max. One moment, you’re commanding an entire fleet of starships in an epic sci-fi armada. Next, you’re bogged down in a muddy field, barking orders to medieval soldiers as you lay siege to an imposing fortress. With so many different experiences to choose from, picking your next big strategy game binge can be even more overwhelming than getting used to the various systems within them you’ll need to master. So, join us as we explore…
Bully Online project lead Swegta has announced that the ambitious mod, which added online functionality and a ton of other GTA Online-type stuff to Rockstar’s cult classic, has been shut down permanently just one month after it launched. Virtually all traces of the mod and its source code have been scrubbed from the web, with Swegta strongly suggesting some, uh, outside force had something to do with the abrupt shutdown.”The Bully Online project is shutting down. Thank you all for playing,” reads an update on Swegta’s official website. No other information was given, but Insider Gaming managed to dig up…
A position I take that is quite hard to explain in any way that is actually helpful is that for a game to catch someone’s attention it must have aesthetic sensibilities that no other game has. To truly get someone’s attention anyway, enough marketing budget can undo that, but for an indie game, a vibe (mysterious, unquantifiable) that I haven’t felt before will pull me in quicker than listing off genre conventions it follows. This is how Hypnos, a first-person adventure and exploration game “set in a lovecraftian megastructure fever dream,” got me to pay attention. I cannot…
Steam Machine Verified games are incoming. Valve has confirmed it will take the time to check thousands of titles on its platform so that we can know at a glance whether a game will work on the new black box of gaming wonders. However, while the similar Steam Deck Verified program has quite strict requirements, Valve has said that Steam Machine verification is going to have “fewer constraints” such that “if your title is Verified on Steam Deck, it will be Verified on Steam Machine.” This confirmation effectively signals what many might have expected, which is that the Steam Machine…
Lin Lie is the current Iron Fist, though he’s not carrying the mantle alone as he’s got his predecessor Danny Rand (now known as Ghost Fist) and his protege Pei at his side. Now all three will have to join forces with White Tiger, White Fox, and Elektra of Daredevil fame to defend the mystical city of K’un-Lun, where the power of the Iron Fist originates.They’ll all unite in Deadly Hands of K’un-Lun, a new five-issue limited series written by Yifan Liang, one of the writers of the hit video game Marvel Rivals, in which Lin Lie appears as Iron…
It’s kind of baffling how Mirror’s Edge came out almost two full decades ago, and there’s hardly a whisper of a game that’s managed to match its art direction. The thing is just too clean, too specific, there’s a purpose to every detail. It feels like the future distilled into digital form, though no one really followed suit in the years since, opting for drab, lifeless realism instead. Except, as it turns out, that’s almost what Mirror’s Edge looked like too. Over on Design Room, as part of an oral history of the game, some of the game’s…
World of Warcraft Midnight is, in many ways, revolutionary. It finally adds the much-requested player housing feature, bringing it in line with rival MMOs like Final Fantasy 14 and Guild Wars 2. It also cracks down hard on WoW addons, which have largely been essential to playing the game. From Deadly Boss Mods to GTFO, I know I’ve relied on them perhaps a little too much over the years, but Blizzard wants to create a world where I won’t have to. Updating its own interface in an attempt to cut out the “competitive advantages” some of these mods grant, the…
Indie developer Petter Malmehed released his unconventional alternate reality puzzle game After Hours in 2018, and according to Malmehed himself, it did alright, even if it wasn’t a big commercial success. However, in recent months and years, he’s seen its user reviews on Steam gradually decline at the same time as its completion rate is steadily dropping, and he thinks he knows why.Email. And super young people. They don’t get it, apparently. For my elder Gen-Z and older readers, this may be confounding. What’s the problem with email? You hit compose, you type in a brief subject line, and then…
Anyone order a point-and-click adventure puzzle game for later this month featuring a cast of British actors that’ll make you go “oh, right, them!” when you Google them? Well, someone must have, because Earth Must Die, the next game from Lair of the Clockwork God developer Size Five Games, now has a release date. Come on, it’s getting cold! Or it’s still cold, because it’s not out yet? I’m losing myself in the metaphor here, point is, Size Five announced today alongside publisher No More Robots that Earth Must Die will be launching January 27th. That’s less than…