Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core is a good roguelite shooter, but a little less special than the game that spawned it
Rogue Core is a bit too conservative for its own good.
We Have to Talk About Live Service, After Heavy Rain Dev's Online Gambit Is Scrapped
Under your spell.I’m not sure where we go from here with live service games, especially ones released within the crowded competitive shooter space.Quantic Dream has announced it's cancelling development of its free-to-play 3v3 online gambit Spellcasters Chronicles, less than three months after it…
Microsoft Appears To Have Made A Small Revision To The Xbox Series X|S Controller
Spotted on the latest LE pad.Amidst reports of a new Xbox Elite Controller and a new Xbox Cloud Gaming pad circulating recently, it looks as though Microsoft has made a small revision to the standard Xbox Series X|S controller - and it's probably not what you're expecting to see.As spotted by an…
Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream Projected As The Best-Selling Game In April (US)
And Switch 2 is the best-selling console.The delightfully bizarre first-party life sim Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream has been projected to be the best-selling game of April in the US, thanks to Circana's Mat Piscatella.The new release beats the likes of Pragmata, Crimson Desert, Pokémon…
Roguelike FPS offshoot Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core launches into early access with its own dangers, its own dwarves, and at last, its own identity
Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core – Ghost Ship Games’ attempt at plunging the co-op FPS spelunkery of Deep Rock Galactic into an even deeper, darker pit of roguelike tension – is out today in early access. I tried it last year, during one of the early alpha playtests, and it was okay? Ish?…
Feature: This Mega Man Hand-Drawn Game Guide Is A Delightful Human-Made Antidote To AI-Generated Slop
God bless Philip Summers.Artist Philip Summers has been creating his Hand-Drawn Game Guides for a while now, and, in this age of GenAI gobbling up all human art to spit out slop, they're become a refreshing antidote.The only issue was the lack of an official license, which caused some problems. A…
Web infrastructure company Cloudflare says Claude Mythos reasoning 'looks like the work of a senior researcher'
Cloudflare has been figuring out how to best use the model.
It's not you, would-be Subnautica 2 fish murderers, it's our creature encounters not feeling "fair, readable, and engaging" enough, say Unknown Worlds
We get you, Subnautica 2 players who're desperate to kill some fish. That's what Unknown Worlds have said in an open letter to the survival game's community following days worth of debate over the studio's decision to push folks to find non-violent ways to solve their underwater leviathan problems.…
PlayStation's Huge Days of Play Sales Begin Next Week, Reportedly No PS5 Console Discounts
27th May-10th June, says leaker.Sony's annual Days of Play promotion, where it discounts its PS5 consoles, accessories, and games both physically and digitally, is making its return soon. According to reliable leaker BillBil-Kun, we should expect the 2026 version of Days of Play to begin on 27th…
Quantic Dream Is Abandoning Its MOBA Just Three Months After Launch As Another Ill-Fated Live-Service Game Gets Added To The Pyre
The Detroit: Become Human's multiplayer experiment comes to an abrupt end
Critical Role finally releases a full-scale map of Campaign 4's main city, and I'm deeply jealous to not have their personal cartographer at my table
The inevitable Aramán campaign setting is gonna slap.
If gaming laptops are just too bulky for you and you're desperate to burn an enormous hole in your wallet, the new Asus ROG NUC is surely a vision of your dreams
For me, it's a vision of hell.
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'If engineers are becoming three or four times more productive, then we just [want to] do three or four times more stuff': Google DeepMind CEO reckons AI-induced job cuts aren't inevitable
He also says there's 'something missing' from AI game development.
Fired Star Wars Writer Reveals His Pitch For A Rey New Jedi Order Movie: Nostalgia Versus Revision
Damon Lindelof explained what he and his writer partners were attempting to do with their version of a Rey-focused sequel
Backrooms actor Chiwetel Ejiofor was surprised to find out the 30,000 square foot set is the first of its kind: 'I thought that somewhere it had been built before'
Those shorts do look pretty convincing to be fair.
Apr 2026 USA Sales: Unremarkable Start for Saros on PS5, as Circana Adds Digital Projections
PS5 exclusive debuts in ninth.Circana is the most reliable sales tracker available for the United States, but I’m fascinated to see how digital sales projections alter its results.While most publishers share full data with the analytics firm, there are a few holdouts like Nintendo which keep that…
Review: Tales Of Arise - Beyond The Dawn Edition (Switch 2) - Solid Game, Solid Port, Goes On A Bit
A new dawn breaks.Though the Tales series goes back all the way to the days of the Super Famicom, it feels like it’s always been one of the lower-budget ‘B-tier’ RPG franchises that only the most dedicated genre fans engage with regularly.To counter this and try to bring the series to a…
Three Years Later, And This 'Metal & Lace' Patch Finally Reaches Version 1.0
The FM Towns 'eroge' fighter now has more English text.Three years ago, Derek Pascarella released the first version of his English patch for the FM Towns eroge fighting game Ningyou Tsukai, better known in the West as Metal & Lace: The Battle of the Robo Babes.Pascarella has just announced that he…
Microsoft plans to launch a cheaper 8 GB Surface laptop later this year which won't meet the requirements of a Copilot+ PC
How far we have fallen.
The Mass Effect-like Exodus 'is effectively D&D in space,' Hasbro CEO says
I guess you could make that argument, but I sure wouldn't.