Tag: games

7 years on, CliffyB is ‘still bitter’ about people gravedancing when his studio Boss Key failed: ‘It was amazing at first and then, well, it broke me for a good long while’

7 years on, CliffyB…

Storied game designer Cliff “CliffyB” Bleszinski, who worked at Epic Games in the Unreal days and was lead designer…
Call of Duty is firmly in its slop era, and now it’s Battlefield 6’s game to lose

Call of Duty is…

MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER (Image credit: Future) This week: Played loads of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4…
Today’s Wordle answer for Thursday, July 24

Today’s Wordle answer for…

Wield our Wordle tips if you want to win your battle with Thursday’s puzzle. Or just give them a…
At long last and ‘with gracious permission from Valve,’ Garry’s Mod now contains ‘most of Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 Episodic content’ even if you don’t own those games

At long last and…

So long, pink checkerboards that represent missing textures! Adiós, pitch-black skies that signify an absent skybox! Don’t let the…
Oh, hell yeah—this indie dev is making a Valkyria Chronicles-inspired mecha game

Oh, hell yeah—this indie…

Sometimes the world delivers you a bit of proof that you’ve done a good job cultivating your online environment.…
23 years after launch, Final Fantasy 11 is suspending character creation on its most popular server as it buckles beneath the weight of player congestion

23 years after launch,…

I played Final Fantasy 11 for the first time in 2024 after an episode of the Abnormal Mapping podcast…
One of Warhammer’s oldest discontinued armies has finally returned—but to a different universe

One of Warhammer’s oldest…

There’s nothing quite so alluring to your average Warhammer player as something that used to be available and now…
Marathon UI designer declares himself the ‘fontslop merchant’ and promises Bungie will never ‘remove the SAUCE from the UI’

Marathon UI designer declares…

Last week, one of the most circulated reactions to the Marathon server slam was a YouTuber who took one…
‘There’s a strong desire on our side to make sure that our games are preserved’: Obsidian promises your Grounded 1 save files won’t be compost after Grounded 2 comes out

‘There’s a strong desire…

Grounded 2 is on its way, with early access kicking off later this month—which, if you’ve been slighted by…
The Marathon server slam consumed my weekend: 21 hours later, I’ve gone from ‘meh’ to believer

The Marathon server slam…

It was around this time last year when Embark and Bungie both ran playtests for their new extraction shooters…