Tag: gaming industry

After leaving Epic Games last month, its former ‘Unreal evangelist’ is now building his own game engine

After leaving Epic Games…

In June, Sjoerd De Jong—an Unreal Engine modder and map creator turned full-time specialist at Epic Games—announced that he…
Steam Week in Review: A torrent of janky retail sims continues to flood Steam, and there’s no end in sight

Steam Week in Review:…

The flood of retail simulators on Steam is nothing new: the trend seemed to land with torrential force in…
Larian is finished with Baldur’s Gate: ‘We’re going to move away from D&D and we’re going to start making a new thing’

Larian is finished with…

Bad news for anyone hoping for a Baldur's Gate 3 expansion, Baldur's Gate 4, or anything else Dungeons and…
‘You name it, we made it faster’—The State of Unreal keynote didn’t just show off Unreal Engine 5

‘You name it, we…

Epic has delivered its annual keynote at this years GDC 2024, the “State of Unreal” address, and while there…
The new ‘backward compatible’ Xbox games on PC run on an OG Xbox emulator inside an Xbox 360 emulator, and people have already used it to run other Xbox 360 games

The new ‘backward compatible’…

First reported by Tom’s Hardware, it’s come to light that, not only are the four “Backward Compatibility on PC”…
Game developers come together at GDC for a ‘GDScream’ to vent rage at the state of the industry: ‘It feels hard to be here and pretend like everything is fine’

Game developers come together…

Developers at GDC gathered today to express their feelings about the state of the game industry, in what under…
‘The last time I liked everything about a game was probably Baldur’s Gate 3’: Raphael Colantonio, co-founder of Arkane Studios, talks us through the games installed on his PC

‘The last time I…

Disk Cleanup (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC…
The best game design schools, ranked by the Princeton Review 2024

The best game design…

Whether you’re taking your first steps or refining your skills, there’s a game design program for anyone. Check out…
‘It’s just cosmetics’ monetisation doesn’t quite hold up anymore, especially now it’s started to make fully-priced games worse

‘It’s just cosmetics’ monetisation…

Some variant of 'it's fine if it's only cosmetics' has been the rallying cry of many a live service…
Games industry analyst says Meccha Chameleon’s June revenue on PC was second only to Fortnite

Games industry analyst says…

They say money can’t buy happiness, so I guess Meccha Chameleon creators lemorion_1224 and Haganeiro will have to get…