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Civilization 7 has proved one of the more divisive games of 2025 thus far. At present, its Steam rating is split almost precisely down the middle, between players who enjoy its attempt to streamline the experience, and those who believe the changes result in a shallow and predictable turn-based strategy.It's the most divided response to a new Civilization game that I can personally recall. But according to Strauss Zelnick, boss...
Much like the gaming industry, entertainment has long been at war with piracy. But while gamers often turn to piracy to preserve titles lost to digital delistings or scarce physical copies, anime and manga fans, especially in earlier eras, relied on illicit means simply to access the content. Before widespread licensing, piracy played a crucial role in spreading anime and manga’s popularity, ultimately attracting major players like Netflix, Crunchyroll, Hulu,...
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 writer Jennifer Svedberg-Yen would be the first to tell you: writing a video game is work. At least writing a novel is a one-person operation for most of the time. At least a screenplay for a film only needs to come in around 120 pages, unless you’re working for Martin Scorsese. But writing a video game? That means filling hours of space, bending the material to...
REPO's latest community update video made me laugh so hard that the top half of my head almost fully flapped backward, much like the yapping mouths of the game's own pedal bin-shaped robots. This wasn't due to the video's typically goofy opening, though I did crack a slight smile at the introductory silliness. Rather, it's because presenter and semiwork designer Pontus spends the first half of the update talking about...
After a 14-year hiatus, the Final Destination horror franchise returns to theaters on May 16 with Final Destination: Bloodlines. In the first five Final Destination films, death itself creates Rube Goldberg machines out of everyday objects, constructing freak accidents to kill people who previously escaped its grasp. The latest iteration puts a new spin on the formula by making death’s wrath a generational curse. Directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam B....
UK publisher Slitherine Software has announced that its two Warhammer 40,000 titles—Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon and Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach—will be delisted from Steam on Monday, May 19.Slitherine revealed the games would be leaving Steam earlier this week. "We want to inform you that the Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach and Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon franchises will soon be removed from Steam and our website," the publisher wrote in a brief blog post....
Get your Wordle weekend off to the best possible start without help. Why not even cut directly to the best bit (winning, of course) with a sneaky little peek at today's answer? Everyone's allowed a day off, and we promise not to tell. Too much? No problem. There's a clue for the May 17 (1428) game just a little further down the page, designed to help without instantly giving today's...
A year out from its initial early access launch, I can finally see what Moon Studios wants to make with No Rest for the Wicked. It's big in scope and scale, mashing conventions and mechanics of several genres into one world folded in on itself like its own intricately layered levels. And it invites much comparison: to Dark Souls and Diablo, namely.And also fighting games. Monster Hunter Wilds. Even Animal...
Sony-owned developer Haven Studios had planned to release its live service shooter Fairgames this year, but the departure of its founder, Jade Raymond, and poorly-received external playtests has resulted in a delay to 2025, according to a Bloomberg report.Raymond started Haven in 2021 just two months after leaving Stadia Games, Google's relatively short-lived internal development studio. Its debut game, Fairgames, was announced in 2023. The shooter was pitched as a...
Last year, I had the pleasure of covering the existence of the Warhammer Conference, the world's first academic conference devoted to philosophical, theoretical, and otherwise scholarly appraisal of everything involving Space Marines, Chaos demons, and grim darkness both futuristic and fantastical. Today, I'm pleased to report that the Warhammer Conference is returning this September to Heidelberg, Germany for the second of what we can only hope is a long-lived annual...