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,…
Category: Video Games
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…
December 4, 2023
33 Immortals’ creative director discusses Heaven, Hell, and roguelikes
A 14th century Italian poem underlies an ambitious attempt to transform a popular video game genre into something completely unique.…
November 10, 2023
Handheld PC Gaming is having its moment (for early adopters)
I’m a sucker for handhelds. But even if I weren’t endlessly researching the history of handheld gaming, even if I…
October 18, 2023
Inside Croteam’s transition from in-house tech to UE5 for The Talos Principle 2
Croatian developers Croteam have been creating over-the-top Serious Sam first-person shooters for more than two decades and they’ve been building them on their in-house…
September 7, 2023
Fort Solis uses Unreal Engine 5.2 to deliver an immersive martian experience
Fort Solis tells the story of one night in a desolate Martian mining camp. Initially tasked with discovering what happened at…