Firaxis celebrates Civilization 7’s launch with the Civ World Summit, a live streamed five-way strategy showdown with ‘an exciting announcement’ planned

We’re weeks away from the launch of Civilization VII, officially PC Gamer’s Most Wanted game of 2025. We all intend to celebrate the game’s release in our own way. Personally, I’m thinking about conquering a small nation. Luxembourg perhaps, or possibly Andorra. Firaxis’ own plans for marking the occasion are less megalomaniacal, though conquest will […]

Hyper Light Breaker gets a community-driven update that makes ‘some pretty big changes’ to the game’s enemies and medkit system, following its debut to mixed reviews on Steam

Hyper Light Breaker, Heart Machine’s 3D follow-up to moody action-adventure Hyper Light Drifter, smashed into Steam early access earlier this month. But the initial response to it has been less than stellar, with players complaining about specific issues like frame rate drops, lack of keybinding, and problems with the parry system, while generally being divided […]

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s director says ‘I respect the modding community’ and uses mods himself, though he still thinks we shouldn’t use ones that ‘detract from the intended game experience’

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s director Naoki Hamaguchi caused a stir last December when he asked modders “not to create or install anything offensive or inappropriate” for the second part of the RPG’s remake, which just launched on PC. While he didn’t specify what was “offensive or inappropriate”, such a broad statement would certainly cover nude […]

The Video Game History Foundation launches its digital library later this month, providing access to over 1,500 videogame magazines and ‘never-before-seen game development materials’

The videogame industry doesn’t have the best track record at preserving its past, though this is slowly changing with the help of independent organisations. One such organisation is the Video Game History Foundation, which today announced it will be launching its digital library platform later this month. Posting on BlueSky, the VGHF revealed that the […]

A Warhammer ‘live service RPG’ made in Unreal Engine 5 was apparently canceled after three years of development

Daniel Erickson, CCO of Thought Pennies studio, recently announced that staff had been laid off and an upcoming game canceled. “Over the last three years at Thought Pennies we built something amazing”, he wrote on LinkedIn. “We never missed a milestone, our feedback was great, our partnerships strong. We went from two people and a […]

After turning over a new, crypto-free leaf, Atari would like to stress that the meme currency ‘RealPongCoin’ does not have its ‘consent or approval’

On January 23, Atari put out a press release disavowing “RealPongCoin” or “$PONG,” a new crypto meme coin whose account on X, “The Everything App,” was launched that same day. Though the company was once poised to go all-in on crypto and NFTs itself, Atari has since shuttered that side of the business and refocused […]

ConcernedApe isn’t ruling out future updates to Stardew Valley: ‘Maybe even 50 years from now, I might add something’

In a January 24 interview with NPR’s All Things Considered, Stardew Valley creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone discussed his debut game’s legacy nine years on, including his famous propensity for interrupting development on the upcoming Haunted Chocolatier to put out patches and new content for his 2016 farming RPG. “I do take in a lot of […]

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced a Her Story-like game where you hack into Lady MacBeth’s computer

Here’s some videogame news you don’t see every day. The Royal Shakespeare Company, known mainly for its contemporary adaptations of the Bard’s plays, has announced a video game adaptation of MacBeth. Titled Lili, the game is a modern “screen-life thriller” in which players experience Shakespeare’s bloodiest story through Lady MacBeth’s personal devices. According to a […]

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