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The Jurassic Park franchise could have been a lot worse — and there’s proof

The Jurassic Park franchise could have been a lot worse —…

By now, it’s a familiar pattern: A new Jurassic Park franchise movie movie comes out during the summer, garnering middling and sometimes exhausted-sounding reviews. Yes, it has some decent…
Romero Games Says It’s Not Dead, But Looking For A New Publisher After Xbox Layoffs

Romero Games Says It’s Not Dead, But Looking For A New…

Romero Games, the studio led by Doom designer John Romero, had been reported as one of the casualties of Xbox’s devastating layoffs last week. This was based on a…
Capcom cancels a presentation on Monster Hunter Wilds performance at CEDEC 2025 amid ongoing developer harassment

Capcom cancels a presentation on Monster Hunter Wilds performance at CEDEC…

Capcom has cancelled a developer presentation on performance and optimization in Monster Hunter Wilds that was planned to take place later this month at the 2025 Computer Entertainment Developers…
Vintage Story aims to save a piece of Hytale by hiring former Hypixel developers to create a new ‘Adventure Mode’ for the hardcore survival game

Vintage Story aims to save a piece of Hytale by hiring…

PC Gamer’s super-survivalist Chris Livingston called Vintage Story his “new survival game obsession” in 2024, noting that it “looks like Minecraft but is way more complex.” It wasn’t new…
Final Fantasy 9 fans are eating well this year

Final Fantasy 9 fans are eating well this year

Final Fantasy 9 fans have a lot to be excited for 2025, on the occasion of the game’s 25th anniversary. In a year already filled with Final Fantasy flavor…
The Nintendo Switch 2 has replaced my Steam Deck — for now

The Nintendo Switch 2 has replaced my Steam Deck — for…

Exactly one year ago, I found myself so bored that I decided to calculate just how much I was using each gaming platform I owned. The results weren’t surprising:…
Occult deckbuilder The Killing Stone is introducing a ‘dynamic’ scare system originally considered for BioShock 2: ‘It’s very fun as a gamedev to be surprised by something in your own game’

Occult deckbuilder The Killing Stone is introducing a ‘dynamic’ scare system…

BioShock 2 was a bold follow-up to Irrational Games’ 2007 FPS, putting you in the lead-weighted shoes of a Big Daddy and flipping its objectivist critique on its head.…
The Jurassic World movies just had their Last Jedi ‘nope’ moment

The Jurassic World movies just had their Last Jedi ‘nope’ moment

In 2018, Universal Pictures’ Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom gave the 25-year-old Jurassic Park franchise its most ambitious, startling shift since the first movie brought dinosaurs into the modern world.…
After conquering ChatGPT, Atari 2600 Video Chess destroys Microsoft Copilot: ‘The vintage silicon mastermind bested me fair and square’

After conquering ChatGPT, Atari 2600 Video Chess destroys Microsoft Copilot: ‘The…

Last month we reported on the somewhat-surprising news that an emulated Atari 2600 running the 1979 software Video Chess had “absolutely wrecked” an overconfident ChatGPT at the game of…
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was a depression-fest because its writer is ‘from Poland and people in Poland are sad

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was a depression-fest because its writer is ‘from Poland…

I’m always very skeptical of attempts to tie particular themes in literature and film to some sort of ineffable national character. Surely nations are too strange, large and varied…