Tag: gaming industry

Remembering Leif Johnson, the gaming industry’s one and only cowboy poet

Remembering Leif Johnson, the…

Jeremiah Leif Johnson, a writer and editor for a number of gaming and tech websites including IGN, Vice Motherboard,…
Most players ‘know next to nothing about how games are made’: New Blood devs sound off on gamedev misconceptions

Most players ‘know next…

Hang out with a game developer in a casual setting for an hour and the topic of gamedev misconceptions…
Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that ‘easy’ additions and updates are sometimes really hard: ‘That’s half a year’s work

Helldivers 2 and Palworld…

I don’t envy game developers sometimes, nor do I envy the assumptions they have to hear time and time…
Google CEO pitches dystopia where no one communicates with their friends anymore because AI’s writing our emails, claims this makes you ‘a better friend’

Google CEO pitches dystopia…

CEO of Alphabet and Google Sundar Pichai gave the opening address at the 17th annual Google I/O developer conference…
It’s a day ending in ‘y’ so you know what that means: Embracer Group is doing more restructuring

It’s a day ending…

Embracer Group is undergoing yet another restructuring of its gigantic operations, this time announcing plans to spin-off the Coffee…
PC Gamer magazine’s new issue is on sale now: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – 10th anniversary

PC Gamer magazine’s new…

This month PC Gamer celebrates the 10th anniversary of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the legendary fantasy RPG that…
Avowed director Carrie Patel leaves Obsidian after 12 years to join the Netflix studio behind Oxenfree

Avowed director Carrie Patel…

After nearly 12 years at Obsidian Entertainment, Avowed game director Carrie Patel has left the studio to take on…
THQ Nordic studio that was set to be closed in 2023 somehow escaped the Embracer death spiral and is now working on a new RPG

THQ Nordic studio that…

This is a bit of a weird one: Two years after announcing its planned closure in the aftermath of…
Fooled by a false story about Steam account hacks? Have I Been Pwned 2

Fooled by a false…

Last week saw a fairly typical mini-cycle of bad reporting: an anonymous internet account posted a claim that Steam…
An MVP of ultrawide patches for triple-A games just had their entire library nuked from GitHub, and nobody seems to know why

An MVP of ultrawide…

Last week, users on Reddit and ResetEra noticed that the GitHub library of DIY developer Lyall had been completely…