📰 Game News

Putting Control Resonant Under A Microscope Is Rewarding In An Unexpected Way

Over many years, I've written tens of thousands of words covering the Remedy Connected Universe, the Finnish studio's world tying the Alan Wake and Control series together. This is a team that loves rewarding players who notice the smaller details and go off the golden path in search of morsels of understanding. Connecting dots is often much of the fun in a Remedy game. To my surprise, that side of the developer wasn't on display much in Control Resonant. There are definitely a few nods, and

This third-person mod for Deus Ex turns the classic immersive sim into Max Payne, introducing dual-wielding and shoot-dodging

My vision is augmented.

Civilization 7's game changing update was 'personally challenging' for its creative director, as being able to play as a single faction 'wasn't part of the original vision'

Ed Beach says that players "had not been given full service by the game as the way it first shipped".

Mass Effect 5 would have let players generate alternate timelines based on their choices in previous games, according to the series' technical director

"You had so many choices that you could plug your saves together to create parallel universes," Romain Toutain explained in a livestream.

The Best Deals Today: Persona 3 Reload, Pikmin 4, The Adventures of Elliot, and More

Top Xbox exec promoted in brand 'reset' leaves after 3 months in role

Is that good?

Penguin Colony review: A daringly weird horror game whose atmosphere and surprises overcome its rough edges

Something ancient and horrible stirs in the farthest south: Are you bad enough penguin to… not really do much about it?

BioWare's incredible legacy will continue as long as there are RPGs

EA is shutting down the venerable studio, but its impact will persevere.

Now it's over, WoW: Forever's beta has left me with just one fear—its endgame

How do you zig when all you know is zag?

New Blood CEO confirms it: the worst way to sell immersive sims like Gloomwood and Fallen Aces is to call them immersive sims

"It's not a good marketing term. And I don't think it helps."

The mouse P.I. for hire from Mouse: P.I. For Hire joins the meat boy from Super Meat Boy 3D in gaming's latest indie crossover

Of mice and meat.

Japan Actors Union pushes for heavy restrictions on AI copying dead actors

It's part of a broader set of guidelines the union hopes to set an industry-wide precedent for.

Are we in the cozy gaming gold rush era? 'Cozy' has grown over 250% on Steam and 200% in my inbox since 2024

Uh oh, everything is cozy now.

The best feature in the original Alan Wake is an absence: the man has no reticle

Remedy forgot the rules of third-person shooting to build its inaugural horror game.

'I drank from the chalice of blood': indie dev scrubs his game of AI-generated voice lines, having previously described the technology as 'anti-human and anti-art'

Refund offered for players who "still feel betrayed" over AI use in Future? No Thanks!

Award-winning sci-fi author NK Jemisin joins BioWare's mourners and scorns a broken industry for killing geese that 'laid the golden eggs'

"The [Mass Effect] and [Dragon Age] games were a literal inspiration."

After 14 years of development, Factorio's final major update is out now

Patch 2.1 brings "a big collection" of small yet significant changes.

MAFIA HOTEL (Epic Games) Giveaway

Claim MAFIA HOTEL for free via Epic Games Store! MAFIA HOTEL is a 3d multiplayer social deduction game for up to 16 players.