May 31, 2024
Finding a spark of hope in a sea of layoffs
It’s been 2 days since lives were upended. It’s been 2 days since dreams were crushed. It’s been 2 days since an industry…
Category: Video Games
May 18, 2024
The One Upgrade All Handheld Gaming PCs Need
As the handheld PC gaming wars continue to heat up, it’s starting to feel like some of the competitors don’t…
April 24, 2024
Solo dev makes sophisticated sim Manor Lords using Unreal Engine
Inspired by a swathe of classic strategy games like Stronghold: Crusader, Knights & Merchants, and Age of Empires, and fueled by a love…
April 1, 2024
Game development in the time of a Cuban crisis
For a while, things looked very, very bad for Cuba’s first modern indie video game. Exploding onto the scene nearly…
March 22, 2024
Why the New York Times returned to video game coverage and if it will last
It’s approaching a year since the New York Times cannonballed its way back into video game coverage with a splashy,…
March 20, 2024
Swapping engines in-flight: How Pragma helped Omeda change backends while live
On its surface the V0.15 update for Predecessor seemed like another big content drop for the free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA).…
March 12, 2024
Disorienting analog horror comes to Dead by Daylight
Perhaps the most popular sorts of horror is the type that action-survival game Dead by Daylight subsists on: slashers, ghost stories, creatures…
February 20, 2024
Why betting on Unreal Engine 5 paid off for Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remastered
When the relatively small team at Avantgarden set about recreating Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons–a game they view as a…
February 15, 2024
The next big thing in role-playing will be powered by Pragma
There was a moment when I began to doubt my approach to role-playing Lilly Peacock. The doubt bubbled up maybe…
February 14, 2024
Lenovo’s Legion Go is a chunky, decadent system
It has among the beefiest screens in the burgeoning handheld PC gaming market, arguably the fastest chipset, and enough extra…