Issue #349

NEWS Link to heading

Take-Two Interactive Currently has 29 Games in Development

PlayStation is America’s gaming console choice by a wide margin, new study shows

Extraction shooter BR1 Infinite is paying players for every in-game kill, drawing concerns about gambling and cheating

Gaming Hardware Company Razer Acquires StreamElements Streamer Tools In Company-Saving Deal

Blizzard is now reportedly Microsoft’s top studio, according to leaked email

Dev at id Software says Microsoft ‘burned a lot of bridges’ in the industry: ‘They fundamentally don’t understand art, they don’t understand games’

Valve Warns Steam Machine Owners Their Personal Details May Have Been Stolen

Xbox to implement age verification in Australia on console and PC in late August

Terraria’s biggest mod, Calamity, is shutting down after 10 years over what the makers call a “troubled past” and “irrecoverably tainted reputation”

XBOX CTO Gives Update On July Outage Cause

Steam user data ‘may have been compromised’ by a cyberattack targeting Valve’s European shipping partner

id Software dev says mass layoffs like Microsoft’s are weakening the games industry, because developers ‘don’t have the incentive to care anymore’

PlayStation 5 & PS5 Pro Getting Stunning Wolverine Accessories

Amazon will cease publishing Lost Ark and Throne & Liberty, sending them back to Smilegate and NCsoft

Hogwarts Legacy 2 Officially Announced by Warner Bros.

GeForce NOW comes to Linux, as Nvidia’s game streaming service exits beta

Amazon Prime: Every Free Game You Can Claim In August 2026

REVIEWS Link to heading

EverQuest Legends

Sovereign Tower

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls

Asus ROG Swift PG32UCWM

Servant of the Lake

Wild Blue Skies

Fields of Mistria

FEATURES Link to heading

It’s Been A Decade Since No Man’s Sky Changed Gaming Forever

“Ideas like this usually just die”: Inside generative AI’s effect on modding, and how host sites struggle to maintain transparency

Palworld 1.0 Showed Me Why Everyone Loves Survival Games

The 10 Most Ambitious Video Games Ever Made

Stop waiting for the Game of Thrones CRPG of your dreams and settle for the pleasant eurojank compromise instead

Exclusive: LotRO’s The Wolves of Mordor Expansion Brings Two Ambitious New Systems To Middle-earth This Fall

Revisiting the original No Man’s Sky, 10 years on - and why it was always good in its own way

‘I am a big roguelike guy, but also a fan of minimalism and elegance’: Sam Barlow, creator of Her Story, guides us through the games in his Steam Library

Sean Murray reflects on 10 years of No Man’s Sky, its future, and why Hello Games’ “redemption arc” narrative “isn’t really the story” of the developer

I’ve seen much more of 1666: Amsterdam, and the witchy game by the creator of Assassin’s Creed has some surprising features

Why Ukraine’s game industry is undergoing a creative ‘renaissance’ amid war

Star Wars Zero Company Preview: XCOM + Star Wars Is A Perfect Combo

Control Resonant Wants ‘To Challenge’ What’s Come Before In Action Games — IGN First

As Overwatch and Diablo Money Rolls In, Blizzard Defies the Odds at Xbox

The 13 Most Influential Games of All Time

20 hours in, I cannot believe the scale, complexity, and ambition of Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave

Everything New We Learned About Marvel’s Wolverine From Our Big Interview With Insomniac

Marvel’s Wolverine: The Final Preview

DISCUSSIONS Link to heading

Forget owning our digital purchases, we dont even own our saves.

What game did you regret immediately after buying?

For people who have played a game for over 1000 hours. Which game is it?

VIDEOS Link to heading

Control Resonant: Exclusive Metro Fault Mission Gameplay — IGN First

Onimusha: Way of the Sword - Severing Fates Trailer

ACE COMBAT 8 The Art of Aircraft トレーラー

No Man’s Sky 10th Anniversary Trailer

14 Minutes Exclusive Hellraiser: Revival Gameplay

STRANGER THAN HEAVEN | Development Behind The Scenes

Ghost of Yōtei Complete Edition - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games

FUNNY Link to heading

Kids today on computers

Average rank up game

DEV / DESIGN Link to heading

A question for the industry: How will external developers use AI tools? | The DeanBeat