I don't think you can go by a nom-de-plume like "Soulframe" without really, really loving videogames.More than a decade before Digital Extremes started cooking up its Warframe sequel, young Chinese architecture student Qiwei Liang came up with the name as his internet handle, and has been using it ever since. It lasted through his stint as a grad student at Yale and his return to China after his first game,...

I wasn't sure what to make of Woochi the Wayfarer when I first saw the title, but I reflexively assumed it would be cozy, and probably star a large anthropomorphic animal—an overweight bear, perhaps—with a bindle. I could not have been further off the mark if I had put conscious effort into it. It is in fact inspired by the "classic Korean novel" The Tale of Jeon Woochi, about a...

The last thing I expected out of a mech game was to be reminded of World of Warcraft, but Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion is just as interested in letting you lazily explore its open world as it is slicing enemies apart with energy swords.If you ignore the Iron Man-style mech suit, Titanic Scion is an MMO with dozens of tasks to do around its oversized levels. It was technically...

Speaking as my own harshest critic, I can understand how difficult it is to break out of habitual self-deprecation. Luckily, with some healthy introspection, understanding, and awareness, it's something we can unlearn. Unluckily for large language models, those are three capabilities they fundamentally lack.If an LLM is, for example, trained on an entire internet's worth of programmers enduring dark journeys of the soul while struggling to solve a problem, you...

First reported by Automaton, veteran programmer Koji Sugimoto (Chrono Trigger, Xenogears, Final Fantasy 10) criticized modern games' emulation of retro visual glitches, specifically the affine texture warping of the original PlayStation, a frequent feature of lo-fi, throwback indie games.On August 5, Sugimoto responded to a tweet from Unity Japan about a new tool in the engine to let devs more easily emulate the PS1's texture warping effect, a limitation of...

Ubisoft is no stranger to its videogame news leaking ahead of time, but this is the first time I can remember one of its TV shows leaking early. And the leak is coming from inside the house: an article about a new television project appeared on Ubisoft's own news site over the weekend but was then quickly removed.Not quickly enough, however: the now-missing news post announced that a live-action Far...

As someone who typically takes a rather unga bunga approach to videogames, I must admit I finally feel rather seen by Subnautica 2 designer Anthony Gallegos proclaiming that we're all monkey-brained gamers who love survival crafting because of how they tap into our most primal instincts.As reported by GamesRadar, Gallegos sat down with Edge magazine to talk about Unknown Worlds' upcoming game—which is currently going through a bit of a...

"Launching free for 24 hours was a huge bet for us," Guntouchable developer Game Swing says, but it certainly got eyes on the game. More than two million people claimed it in a single day.Guntouchables is a slapstick co-op roguelike that on any other day would have probably passed me by. But I am one of the more than two million folks who picked it up.Have I played it? No....

Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon promises NetherRealm is "still committed to refining MK1 to be our most balanced game" after surpassing six million sales… despite officially ending major support for it nearly three months ago.Mortal Kombat 1's most recent sales announcement puts it ahead of both Street Fighter 6—which reported five million sales two months ago—and Tekken 8, which hit a three million sales milestone five months ago.(Image credit: NetherRealm...