It's beyond a cliche to point out that games' TV and film adaptations consistently sucked for decades before there were any good ones, and frankly, it's getting harder to remember that time. One of the best examples of how things have gotten better in recent years is Cyberpunk: Edgerunners—or as I like to remember it, the first time I wondered if I should reinstall Cyberpunk 2077 (an impulse senior editor...

There's a term in tabletop gaming: "beer and pretzels." It's an epithet you'll find tacked on to any game best played with unserious intentions and inebriants aplenty. I've described Deep Rock Galactic to friends as a "beer and pretzels" sort of horde shooter, so I don't know why it never occurred to me that one of the best co-op games on Steam would also make a great party-friendly board game....

Ratatan, the spiritual successor to the wonderful PSP rhythm game Patapon, turned up at the PC Gaming Show earlier this year to reveal a new trailer, as well as a demo on Steam and an early access release date of July 25.But with that date now just a few weeks away, developer TVT Co. has decided to push it back, and for that you can blame—or thank, as the case...

Perfect Dark was one of the biggest projects gutted by Microsoft's latest round of layoffs, which is really saying something given one of the other canceled games is an MMO. The rebooted shooter was in under-wraps development for several years before a fantastic-looking gameplay reveal debuted just last year—and now that all that work is circling the drain, the voice behind Joanna Dark herself is desperate to save it.Alix Wilton...

Microsoft laid off 9,000 employees earlier this week, cancelling games Everwild, the Perfect Dark reboot, and an unannounced MMO in the works at ZeniMax Online Studios in the process. Romero Games' new shooter fell victim to the massacre too. One game that apparently didn't get cancelled, though, is OD, the new thing from Hideo Kojima, with support from Xbox Studios, that was announced in 2023.You'd be forgiven for forgetting OD....

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced around 9,000 layoffs—many of which gutted teams and canceled games all over Xbox Game Studios—and it hasn't gone over great with, well, anyone whose conscience is intact. The Communications Workers of America, a major media union with several locals within Microsoft, took the moment to address its disappointment with a formal statement.“We are deeply disappointed in Microsoft’s decision to lay off thousands more workers, including...

This week, as part of an enormous round of cuts at Microsoft, the company closed down The Initiative and cancelled the ace-looking reboot of Perfect Dark it had been working on. The game had first been announced in 2020 but a "gameplay reveal" was shown in 2024's Xbox Games Showcase: and it blew us away.The "eco sci-fi" shooter that's "not just about shooting" looked like the imsim we've all been...