Issue #232

NEWS Link to heading

100 Days Later, Neuralink’s First Human Patient Is Now Using His Brain Implant to Play Slay the Spire

Microsoft Set To Launch Mobile Games Store This July

Warner Bros. reverses course, won’t delist Adult Swim indie games, devs say

EA Apparently Exploring The Idea Of In-Game Ads In Traditional AAA Titles

Square Enix to ‘aggressively pursue’ a new multiplatform business strategy ‘designed to win over PC users’

As we await more GTA 6 news, it looks like a Red Dead Redemption release on PC might finally happen

PC classics Ultima, SimCity and Myst have been added to the World Video Game Hall of Fame

PlayStation names Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino as its new CEOs

Xbox Game Pass adds Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, Immortals of Aveum, Lords of the Fallen, and more in late May

Helldivers 2 is PlayStation’s fastest-selling game ever

Ubisoft reveals Assassin’s Creed Shadows, its long-awaited feudal Japan game

PlayStation Plus Game Catalog and Classics for May 2024 Announced

The Last of Us HBO Series Season 2 Has Entered Production

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser’s new company is creating an “open world action-adventure”

GTA 6 Release Date Now Set For Fall 2025

REVIEWS Link to heading

Homeworld 3

Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 (2024)

Paper Trail

Dread Delusion

Men of War 2

Lorelei and the Laser Eyes

Gray Zone Warfare - Early Access

FEATURES Link to heading

Microsoft’s mystifying mismanagement | This Week in Business

MultiVersus 1.0: Everything We Know

AMD’s gaming graphics business looks like it’s in terminal decline

Is Call of Duty coming to Xbox Game Pass? Yes, no, maybe, who knows - but it’s clear no one believes what Xbox says any more

How Stop Killing Games Ups the Ante in the Fight for Video Game Preservation

Man’s best friend in a Wasteland: Why Dogmeat reigns supreme in the Fallout universe

How The Blistering Satire Of Helldivers 2 Came To Be

What Does the End of Tango Gameworks Mean for Game Pass?

Kim Kardashian: Hollywood has an unlikely, lasting place in gaming history

Success Can’t Save Your Favorite Game Studios Anymore

Two Decades Later, the Original Splinter Cell is Still a Masterpiece

Diablo 4 is finally the phenomenal action RPG I wanted it to be

Virtual Boy: The bizarre rise and quick fall of Nintendo’s enigmatic red console

It’s all very sad, isn’t it - where does the games industry go from here?

Sony’s focus on engagement time over units sold makes sense for PlayStation

DISCUSSIONS Link to heading

What are some games you never quit or leave completely you just take very long breaks?

What are some games that rewards you going down the Evil path?

VIDEOS Link to heading

What The Hell Is Happening At Xbox? | Spot On

The Casting of Frank Stone | Gameplay Trailer

Assassin’s Creed Shadows: Official World Premiere Trailer

FUNNY Link to heading

Watch Devs Intentionally Break Their Games By Multiplying A Number By 1,000

You can now play Minecraft in Google — kind of

DEV / DESIGN Link to heading

Re-koup: “It’s time for publishing to change”