Ever since Microsoft laid off 1,600 employees and—in the process—kicked multiple studios to the curb, there’s been uncertainty about how the split will impact games originally published under its ...

For the better part of a year I was fascinated by a specific trackball that never seemed to materialize: Keychron’s Nape Pro. It is a unique and baffling object from a company not normally known for ...

e-paper has been having a bit of a moment recently. First, the Boox Palma shrank the form factor of eReaders down to something a bit more pocketable and less proprietary than the Kindle. Then, open ...

Storied developer Warren Spector, best known for his work on games like Deus Ex, Thief and the Ultima series, said yesterday that he is "retiring from game development. At least I think so." In a ...

Future? No Thanks! says that it’s an “ecosocialist open-world utopia for our dark times.” Or it would be, if it had released on July 22nd as planned. Instead, it's currently being held up by Steam, ...

The first time I wrote about the upcoming 1666: Amsterdam was when the game's reveal was found to be riddled with some absolutely dogshit AI-generated imagery. The second, and hopefully final, time is ...

Yesterday, Twitch announced that Amazon is going to be training AI models on Twitch streams, VODs, and chats, with users forced to opt in by default because otherwise “nobody would opt in.” During a ...

Earlier this week Stella Sacco, a former lead writer at Saber Interactive, claimed on social media that the company had "replaced me with ChatGPT midway through development" of the game Rideshare ...

There are certain games whose impact is largely obscure to most Western audiences due in large part to what made it over here. And though fan translations and YouTube have helped quite a bit, certain ...

The following is an excerpt from CTRL: Essays on Video Games, a book published by The Lilliput Press and edited by Dean Fee. Chasing Lilacs, by Brenda Romero, is a personal history told through the ...

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Nintendo showed a preview of what to expect in the upcoming Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave on Tuesday. Apparently this includes a gun. Fortune’s Weave looks fucking fantastic. While there’s another Fire ...