I’ve been trying to climb the side of this sheer cliff face for several hours using only my feet. The path is tricky and winding but at this point I know the footholds better than the faces of some of ...

If you want to play a video game recreating the sport of basketball, your only real option these days is 2K's NBA series, which is a casino-like experience so exploitative and bereft of joy that I ...

As more and more dipshit managers mandate (or at least heavily encourage) the use of AI in the office, more and more workers are being confronted with a choice: do as they're told and help contribute ...

Both Sony Interactive Entertainment and Nintendo are being sued over consumer tariff refunds. Now, Microsoft will join them in court. Trevor Hastings, from California, purchased an Xbox console from a ...

Dead By Daylight Roblox clone Forsaken is at the center of a new lawsuit, filed in late April, as developers fight over who owns the game. Originally published by Peter Innes, known in the Roblox ...

Layoffs once again hit games outlet GameSpot on Thursday. Owner Fandom cut the site’s entire commerce team, as well as vice president of games and entertainment Chris Grant. Also laid off today was ...

While playing Horses, I was filled with dread for a revelation that never came. “This is creepy,” I thought, “but surely there’s some big thing in the next scene that pushes the envelope too far.” Yet ...

The Steam Machine came out in sub-optimal times not just when it comes to storage and RAM pricing, but also when it comes to its basic configuration out of the box. The PC uses DDR5 SODIMM memory, the ...

Among the many studios affected by Microsoft’s layoffs this week, id Software, the legendary house that built Doom and Quake, was hit especially hard. More than 90 workers lost their jobs, effectively ...

Let’s say you’ve already spent some time in the United States Army, a vicious colonial project that in recent years has been weaponized by a government with even more openly fascistic tendencies than ...

Over the past week, I’ve watched left wing commentators on Bluesky, the niche short form blogging site that serves as an asylum for the millennials driven insane by unfettered internet access, discuss ...

When Dark Souls II came out in 2014, I previewed and reviewed it for Kotaku. After I played the Looking Glass Knight demo at E3, I gushed to a friend that they had not fucked it up. This had been a ...