As it continues to try smoothing the waters churned up by the recent layoff of thousands of people, Xbox has followed up last week’s big Fallout infodump with the launch of a new “Backward Compatibility on PC” program that will bring old-time Xbox games, previously exclusive to the platform, to PC and compatible handhelds for … Read more

Not to fully transform into the Pepe Silvia meme pointing at a wall of “evidence” but I’m convinced Blizzard is gearing up to announce something StarCraft-related at BlizzCon this year. The first reliable clue came from Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier’s 2024 book on Blizzard’s history where he said the studio was “incubating” a StarCraft shooter … Read more

Lee Sang-hyeok, better known to his fans as Faker, is perhaps the most enduring and successful esports pro of all time, with—among a great many other honors—a record six League of Legends world championships to his name stretching back to 2013. When he re-signed with T1 in 2022, the team called him the “Unkillable Demon … Read more

Earlier this month, indie political satirist game dev Molleindustria—pseudonym of Paolo Pedercini, who created games like Democratic Socialism Simulator and New York Times Simulator—announced that he was moving up the release of his latest game. Despite having previously promised to launch the game on the same day as GTA 6 “in order to humiliate Rockstar … Read more

A cheating scandal has erupted in the World of Warcraft community after a Blizzard developer was caught using special game master (GM) abilities to kill two bosses for some friends. The GM seemingly didn’t realize that one of the players was recording combat logs of the whole thing. Late on Tuesday, Reddit user Acrobatic_Pianist688 posted … Read more

Buying someone else a Steam game got a lot easier today. You no longer have to be Steam friends with the person to whom you’re sending a gift, and don’t even need a Steam account. You can also select gifts directly from a shared wishlist. Here are today’s Steam gifting changes, in short: Previously, sending … Read more

The Bethesda Game Studios Union says it is filing a legal complaint against Bethesda for “continuing to violate labor laws in Canada” by prematurely terminating Canadian employees on July 17—the same day it dropped a huge announcement about the future of Fallout and other games. The timing of the Bethesda infodump was suspect, to put … Read more

Famed British political figure Count Binface has issued a public demand to Sega to quit horsing around and finish Shenmue 4, and suggested the company may be nationalized by the UK government if it doesn’t move with sufficient haste. For those not in the know, Count Binface is not an entirely serious political figure: He’s … Read more

As we descend ever further into an AI-fueled dystopia, one question about our future becomes ever more pressing: When the internet is dominated by machines, who’s going to be around to continue its long-standing tradition of fetishizing Japanese culture and media? Well, there’s no reason to worry, because it turns out the AIs are weebs, … Read more

The biggest thing to happen in Arc Raiders recently (if you don’t count the Expedition near miss) was Embark’s decision to rework the matchmaking to be more attuned to players’ actions in solo, duo, and trio queues. The only problem with having better matchmaking is having to wait a bit longer in queue for the … Read more