New Blood CEO confirms it: the worst way to sell immersive sims like Gloomwood and Fallen Aces is to call them immersive sims
Fans of Deus Ex, Dishonored and Gloomwood like to roll the words ‘immersive sim’ around their mouths as often as…
Japan Actors Union pushes for heavy restrictions on AI copying dead actors
The Japan Actors Union, an org consisting of around 2,600 actors and voice actors, recently announced a series of measures…
I’ve got egg on my face because Steam’s Personal Calendar feature has apparently been a test this whole time and is only now actually a fully fledged component
I’ll be honest folks: I didn’t know that Steam’s Personal Calendar feature was still technically in testing. I’ve been using…
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
It seems like there’s a new slightly-humorous-for-its-incongruity collab between game devs every other week at this point, and the latest…
Are we in the cozy gaming gold rush era ‘Cozy’ has grown over 250% on Steam and 200% in my inbox since 2024
Cozy games on Google The past five years of search demand on Google for cozy games, relaxing games, and casual…
The best feature in the original Alan Wake is an absence: the man has no reticle
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of…
Mass Effect Universe “looked incredible” says creator who claims he advised BioWare
A content creator who claims to have served on a BioWare community council has shared alleged details about the cancelled…
‘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’
Well, here’s a headscratcher. Paolo Pedercini, developer of Future? No Thanks! recently admitted to using generative AI in his ecosocialist…
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 death of BioWare has provoked a whole lot of tributes, memorialisation, and plain old nostalgia as all sorts of…
Mass Effect 3 ending discourse ignored the RPG’s scale, ambition, and exuberance, including that of its oddly great co-op
Ah, come on, it was fine. Better than fine. We can argue for another fourteen years about whether BioWare should…