It’s night, the wind howls, and we’re outside looking in. Rain batters a darkened apartment window and, from some distant radio, comes a hurricane warning. Cut to the apartment interior and suddenly a buzzing phone lights up the gloom – and it’s here you’re asked to do a quick bit of set-up before you can
The game’s director, Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, told me this in an interview recently, smiling and stating simply that: “Yes, it is coming to the disc.” But not all game-discs are made equally. By that I mean that some game discs behave more as glorified passcodes for the game, as a way of proving ownership before you’re
Spiritual successor's sales not enough "to maintain a studio of our current size" despite critical acclaim. The news comes via a statement from ZA/UM, released on the studio’s social media on Friday afternoon, which cited the “commercial performance” of spiritual successor Zero Parades: For Dead Spies as the key reason. Sales, per ZA/UM, were not
Developer Heartblade Interactive’s Forbidden Solitaire is, you see, extremely 90s; immediately recognisable as an artefact of video gaming’s short-lived multimedia boom, where the advent of the CD-ROM brought promises of a future unbound – albeit a future which mostly involved lurid colour palettes, awkward pre-rendered polygons, and juddery lo-res FMV. Forbidden Solitaire has all these
In an update posted to Twitter on Friday, Ziegler announced Friday 17th July was his last day at the studio, and that he was “passing the torch of game director” to Del Chafe III and Julia Nardin, insisting: “both of them have been operating in a strong leadership capacity for the team and are ready
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Confirmation came by way of director Peter Berg, who revealed the news at this weekend’s Fanatics Fest. The movie, announced earlier this year, is still set to premiere on 30th June, 2028. If you’re looking for more information, I’m afraid there isn’t any – that’s the entirety of the announcement. But given there’s little else
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Palworld finally released in full on PC and consoles on 10th July, and while it still hasn’t quite managed to top its massive 2.1m concurrent player peak from early 2024, according to SteamDB this is the second time it’s almost topped the charts as the most played game on Steam of the entire weekend, second
"We remain unwavering in our mission to deliver a real-time strategy game set in the world of Westeros." While at first insisting that development “has been progressing well”, an update posted to the Game of Thrones: War for Westeros’ development blog later revealed the team has decided to push the game back from its original
The team has hired an "incredibly talented performer" in her place. English said it had been a “difficult yet personally necessary decision” as the game moves on “into its next phase”. “I’m really grateful to have been part of Tides of Annihilation since the game’s inception and to have worked with such a lovely team,”
Over 4,500 Google workers have signed a petition calling for layoff protections in response to tech giant workforce cuts over the past few months. According to The Guardian, the union-led petition calls for guaranteed severance, buyouts before mandatory layoffs, and the option to take severance as extended paid leave. Employees reportedly chanted “Google, Google, you
