Feeling any better about your backlog yet? If you spend any significant amount of time using Steam, you’ve probably joked ruefully about your massive backlog of games acquired through cheap bundles or the service’s frequent massive sales. However, we’re willing to bet your backlog can’t hold a candle to…
QWOP meets Death Stranding meets Getting Over It to form wonderfully surreal, unique game. There’s an old saying that life is not about how many times you fall down but how many times you get back up. In my roughly 13 hours of walking through the surreal mountain wilderness…
Here comes another screen overlay. The era of Google’s Play’s unrivaled dominance may be coming to an end in the wake of the company’s antitrust loss, but Google’s app store isn’t going anywhere. In fact, the Play Store experience is getting a massive update with more personalization, content, and…
Asking prices for some models are up 33 percent in less than a year. Less than a month ago, we looked at how current game console prices were historically high due to price increases from all three major console makers. Today, that analysis is already a bit out of…
After years as a parent and homeowner, I sympathize more with my virtual citizens. When I was a child, SimCity 2000 felt like a fun, animated set of urban-themed Lego blocks to tinker with. Revisiting the game roughly three decades later, though, I’ve found the weight of my adult…
A $100 replica Switch dock or $25 cardboard sleeve is needed to play the 3D re-releases. Even as Nintendo has endlessly mined its classic consoles for nostalgic re-releases in recent decades, the company has seemed to completely ignore the existence of the Virtual Boy—its abortive 1990s dip into the world…
The Ars Difficulty Matrix™ helps us analyze the many dimensions of Silksong’s challenges. For seven years, the discussion around Hollow Knight: Silksong focused on the cult-like levels of devotion among fans patiently waiting for the sequel. Now that Silksong has been available for about a week, though, that discussion…
Genki says it “didn’t obtain any unreleased Nintendo property” before launch. Nintendo-watchers may remember when little-known accessory-maker Genki showed the world an extremely accurate 3D-printed mockup of the Switch 2 in January, about a week before Nintendo’s own “first look” teaser video and months before the system’s wider unveiling.…
Daly’s defense asserted, in part, that Nintendo’s “alleged copyrights are invalid.” It has often been said that the lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client. That truism apparently extends to Switch modders as well, at least in the case of Ryan Daly. The operator of the…
CEO says the game is projected to meet expectations, but there are cuts anyway. Firaxis Games, the studio that developed Civilization VII, is undergoing layoffs. The news went public when a former employee took to LinkedIn to announce her unemployment; Game Developer picked the story up, and publisher 2K…
