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On Friday, August 28, indie developer Ryan Laley posted a video on X to say his Gamescom 2026 attendance was being cut short after discovering that all his team's laptops had been stolen from its booth during an alleged overnight theft. In the post, the visibly distraught dev called the incident "a huge blow financially and mentally," and confirmed that police reports had been filed.Laley's post earned an outpouring of...
Just two months after the release of the PvP arena shooter Empulse, 1047 Games is halting work on the game and its predecessor, Splitgate: Arena Reloaded, saying that neither is making enough money to support their operating costs. The studio itself will remain but its "focus is changing," and its next game "may look very different from what people expect."The original Splitgate: Arena Warfare was something of a phenom when...
Need to knowWhat is it? A Witchery vampire RPG with a dark heartRelease date September 3, 2026Expect to pay $70 / £60Developer Rebel WolvesPublisher Bandai NamcoReviewed on RTX 3060 (laptop), Ryzen 5 5600H, 16GB RAMSteam Deck TBC, but unlikely to be a good experienceLink Steam35 hours into The Blood of Dawnwalker I'd already witnessed the aftermath of many barbaric slayings and village razings. I'd cleared out a site of industrial-scale...
Miyamoto Musashi, the legend goes, defeated his rival Sasaki Ganryu with a single blow to the head using nothing but a crude wooden sword carved from an oar.Need to KnowWhat is it? The art of swordplay, revolutionized after the discovery of physicsRelease date September 3, 2026Expect to pay $70/£60Developer CapcomPublisher CapcomReviewed on Radeon RX 9070 XT, Intel i5-13600K, 64GB DDR5Steam Deck PlayableLink Official siteThis is, of course, ridiculous: In truth...
The early access RPG Entropy would be cool enough in a vacuum: Experimental, JRPG-style combat in a bizarre, fallen world. But it's also a second outing from the devs of one of my favorite RPGs in recent memory, Dread Delusion.Dread Delusion was a first-person homage to the Elder Scrolls that, true to its inspirations, had some absolutely killer sidequests, like an ethical dilemma surrounding vegetarian zombies or a seemingly Blade...
Star Wars Galaxies Legends, one of many community servers offering a version of the defunct MMO with custom additions, reportedly had its assets decrypted by a hacker with the username levarrishawk (via Massively OP). In a post on the Star Wars Galaxies subreddit, Levarris confirmed the details of a Discord post shared by the server's development team."[W]e’ve confirmed that Levarris, aka levarrishawk from r/swg, used AI tools to decrypt our...
When Total War: Warhammer first debuted, I was much more into the wargame setting's sci-fi counterpart. This would be cool if Space Marines were in it, I remember thinking, somehow unaware that Total War: Warhammer would end up being one of the best strategy games on PC. Not that my theory was wrong: Space Marines are finally in Total War, and it is, in fact, cool. Just ask the folks...
There are big-budget blockbusters, and then there's GTA 6. If you want any sense of just how big this thing is, look no further than a recent interview Rockstar North co-head Aaron Garbut gave The New York Times (via Techradar). In it, he said the studio dedicated an entire new team solely to making NPCs."We art-directed each individual one of them," Garbut said in the interview. "Every room in the...
Play This Right NowWelcome to Play This Right Now, the site version of our weekly newsletter in which we celebrate a new game, update, or DLC that we think is well worth checking out. You can subscribe to the newsletter at the link if you want to get our thoughts about a new videogame happening direct to your inbox every Thursday.Elden Ring is one of the best videogames I've ever...
Retro gaming is just regular gaming to a sick, twisted mind like mine (and that of everyone I know, since we spend all our time playing old crap). But what makes something retro in the first place? Is it bits? Console generation? The size and contents of the box it came in, assuming it came in one at all? Whatever it is, it seems like the Wii and PS3 are...