The game asks players to find the least worst options for a shipping chokepoint. It’s no fun living through the global energy shock and growing economic crisis that has ensued since the conflict choked off shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. But it can be enlightening to play through…
Move comes as CCP Games spends $120M to go independent, rebrands as Fenris Creations. Google’s AI-focused DeepMind division has taken a minority stake in the developer of popular sci-fi simulation EVE Online, saying it will use the game to study “intelligence in complex, dynamic, player-driven systems.” The research partnership…
Fixed Rate Link being added now; Display Stream Compression coming soon. Last year, we noted how the long-standing vagaries of HDMI licensing and open source AMD driver development combined to prevent the upcoming Steam Machine from receiving official support for the HDMI 2.1 display standard. Now, though, it seems…
Valve’s new hardware is solid but might not justify its $99 price. Since time immemorial, serious PC gamers have proselytized about the superiority of mouse and keyboard control schemes over the more input-limited handheld controllers used by most console gamers (and others). In recent years, though, many PC gamers…
After millions in NFT sales, the hyped “play to earn” game was effectively dead in weeks. This week, players are being asked to pay $25 for early access to Masters of Albion, a god game throwback that legendary designer Peter Molyneux (Populous, Dungeon Keeper, Black and White) says will…
Lawsuit demands Nintendo pass Trump tariff refunds on to its customers. Two gamers who want tariff refunds sued Nintendo of America yesterday, alleging that the company intends to pocket refunds received from the government instead of giving money back to consumers who paid higher prices. The class action complaint…
New Xbox CEO says subscription “has become too expensive for too many players.” Microsoft announced Tuesday that subscribers to its Game Pass service will see significant price reductions starting today. But those subscribers will also be losing included day-one access to Activision’s popular Call of Duty series from now…
Upcoming sequel wants to capture a “uniquely Ukrainian perspective” on the post-apocalypse. It’s been seven long years now since Metro Exodus wowed us with its early RTX-powered ray tracing in a chilling post-apocalyptic setting. A lot has changed in the intervening years, both in the game industry and for…
What the nostalgic throwback lacks in complexity it makes up for in repetitive charm. If you were working a retail job at a movie rental store in the early ’90s, there’s a decent chance you couldn’t wait to clock out for the day and escape from the daily grind…
AI tools could help moderators sift through mountains of suspicious incidents These days, it seems like every tech company and their corporate parent is looking to squeeze AI tools and features into their products, whether they’re wanted or not. So when files with names and functions referencing a “SteamGPT”…
