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The PC Gaming Show and Future Games Show return in June to brighten up your summer with world premieres, interviews, and fresh demos to install

The PC Gaming Show…

Recently, the sun has been peeking its warm rays through the clouds, offering a hopeful glimpse at the summer…
Delays to escape the shadow of a launch like Silksong are about way more than just day 1 players: ‘Every game has to fight and use whatever edge they’ve got available to stay visible’

Delays to escape the…

The number of games that have scurried away from Silksong’s surprise September 4 launch date in the past week…
‘Legality is not the defining factor’: Anti-porn group that pressured Steam and Itch

‘Legality is not the…

Ever since it claimed victory when payment processors compelled Steam to delist a number of adult games from its…
Epic is reportedly cooking up a Disney extraction shooter, and suggestions staff are lukewarm on it are ‘not reflective of the ambitions of the Disney collaboration’

Epic is reportedly cooking…

In the wake of severe layoffs last month, Epic’s increasingly looking to the House of Mouse to shore up…
NetEase closes studio founded by Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies veteran before it can release a single game

NetEase closes studio founded…

T-Minus Zero Entertainment, the NetEase first-party studio founded in 2023 by veteran MMO developer Rich Vogel, has closed its…
Hollow Knight’s creators didn’t want to be constrained by the ‘metroidvania’ label, but they accidentally set a standard that every game since—even Silksong—has to reckon with

Hollow Knight’s creators didn’t…

In a 2017 interview about the making of Hollow Knight’s map, designer William Pellen told me that Team Cherry…
The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 development teams continue to grow as CD Projekt’s headcount expands to nearly 800

The Witcher 4 and…

The Witcher 4 and Cyberpunk 2 are still a long way off, but CD Projekt is slowly but surely…
Former Bethesda exec thinks the studio should get more respect for the complex, open worlds it creates: ‘Go try that s**t in Red Dead Redemption 2’

Former Bethesda exec thinks…

Pete Hines retired from Bethesda in 2023 after nearly a quarter-century at the company, where he did everything from…
The James Bond rights owners have opposed an application for a James Pond trademark

The James Bond rights…

The James Pond games were a series of platformer parodies from the 1990s, most notable for the second one’s…
The ill-advised business software that helped sink videogame pioneers Infocom now runs on modern PCs: ‘It’s a new age for aficionados of failed 1985 database products!’

The ill-advised business software…

Infocom is fondly remembered today as the studio responsible for a string of legendary text adventures including the Zork…