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Online game store Itch.io plunged a swathe of devs into uncertainty last week when, in the wake of pressure from its payment processors, it frantically deindexed all adult content on its platform from its search and browse pages.In effect, devs woke up without warning to a world where they suddenly couldn't make money from the adult games they'd poured their time into making, and all seemingly at the behest of...
On Friday, the UK Government rolled out new measures first introduced with the Online Safety Act 2023 that requires services to verify users' ages to access certain content. Over the weekend, a petition emerged calling for its repeal. Today, said petition has been signed 387,330… 387,331... let's just say nearly 388,000 times and counting. But the UK Government doesn't want to hear it."The Government has no plans to repeal the...
Intel's Lunar Lake mobile chips (shown above) actually have decent gaming chops. Which is why news of a significant graphics upgrade in Intel's next-gen Panther Lake CPUs is so intriguing. According to a shipping manifest spotted by X user X86deadandback, Panther Lake sports 12 Xe3-spec graphics cores.That's 50% more than the 8 Xe2 cores in Lunar Lake. What's more, you'd expect the per-core performance of the Xe3 graphics architecture in...
Mortals will have their first chance to play Hollow Knight Silksong in less than a month from now. The sequel will appear at Microsoft's Gamescom booth on August 20 and 21, and will be playable on both PC and the forthcoming ROG Xbox Ally, which will also make its hands-on debut at the convention.Gamescom, of course, is a convention held in Cologne, Germany. Before Microsoft's announcement, the only confirmed opportunity...
Something curious happened in mid-2024: everyone went crazy over a little game called Supermarket Simulator. There's never a shortage of quirky little games about doing real-life jobs, but for some reason this particular retail sim about stocking shelves and waiting on customers blew up big—and that didn't just draw the attention of players, but other developers.That includes Stas Staryk, who had been doing corporate VR training and outsourced work for...
After a long career in videogames that took him from Ren and Stimpy and Rocky and Bullwinkle to Dead Space and The Callisto Protocol (seriously, check his credits), Glen Schofield might have finally reached the end of the line. In a message posted to LinkedIn (via VGC), Schofield said he'd been working on a new idea but "decided to walk away" after he couldn't raise the funding he was looking...
Apparently Sony had the same reaction as the rest of us when Tencent announced a game that looks shockingly similar to Horizon Zero Dawn. It's suing the Chinese tech company over the open world game, which like Horizon is set in a lush post-apocalypse and stars a woman with a bow who fights and tames animals made of metal.In the lawsuit, Sony calls Tencent's Light of Motiram a "slavish clone"...
"Fireball! Freeze! Magic Missile!" I yelled about 47 times yesterday playing Mage Arena, the voice-powered wizardry game currently shooting up the Steam charts. I convinced some friends to pick up the $3, early access arena shooter based on the strength of the "say spells to cast them" pitch alone, and the verdict is in—Mage Arena is a blast.It's also dead simple: Make a lobby of up to eight players, divide...
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Seven months ago, Tencent, the world’s biggest gaming company, revealed a new project: Light of Motiram, a futuristic open-world game from studio Polaris Quest where machines rule the land. If that sounds familiar, the actual trailer and its cybernetic animals only further implied a specific inspirational source: Sony and Guerrilla Games’ Horizon series. Now Sony is taking Tencent to court over it. Filed on July 25, the lawsuit intends to...
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Sony Interactive Entertainment is giving fans an early Evo gift with a first look at the company’s first fight stick, the FlexStrike. The arcade stick-like controller, previously known as Project Defiant, had been attached to the upcoming 4v4 fighting game, Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, and was previously teased during Sony’s June 2025 State of Play. Now, more details have emerged regarding the fight stick, with Sony providing in-depth information about...