Saber’s new business boss says the KOTOR remake will ‘hopefully’ be out in 2028

We got our yearly ‘KOTOR remake is still alive’ assurance back in March, but they must be making some real progress over there at Saber Interactive because here’s a fresh one: Newly-minted chief business officer Steve Allison said in a recent post that “hopefully” the long-overdue remake will be out in, uhh, 2028. The statement … Read more

Closed game studio returns to un-live service its game with community servers before shutdown: ‘We don’t believe Deceive Inc. should quietly disappear’

In a rare reversal of live service demise, a beloved but “dead” live service FPS will not shut down, but instead receive custom server support that ensures it’ll be playable forever. Long live Deceive Inc. The story of Deceive Inc. played out like countless other live service games. The PvP Hitman-like shooter launched to good … Read more

After 13 years, Path of Exile’s devs are finally ready to ditch one of its most iconic and frustrating mechanics

If you’ve ever seen Path of Exile you probably noticed that all its gear has red, green, and blue circular sockets on them. Those sockets are the basis of its character build customization: You don’t learn skills in PoE, you pick up skill gems and insert them into your gear. Skill gems–and multi-colored sockets—have been … Read more

Marathon’s ‘experimental’ PvE mode will only be playable for 2 weeks when it goes live in July, full rollout expected to happen sometime in Season 3

I was pretty excited when I read about Marathon’s Vault Breaker PvE mode in June: I like shooting things, and I love the Marathon aesthetic, but the grind of extraction shooters just isn’t my thing. In an update released today, ahead of next week’s mid-season update, Bungie revealed more about the upcoming “experimental” PvE mode, … Read more

Against a backdrop of advancing Chinese production, TSMC announces another $100 billion worth of chipmaking will be invested in the US

TSMC, the world’s biggest chipmaker, has reportedly just announced it plans to invest another $100 billion in the US (via AP News) to expand its chip production in the country. ‘Another’, that is, on top of the $100 billion the company committed to last year. That previous $100 billion was in addition to the $65 … Read more

Pathfinder 2e creators Paizo end partnership with Archives of Nethys, which offers most of the D&D alternative’s ruleset for free, over legal confusion and paperwork

You can read the full statement in the link above, but this reads as a desire to cut down on the financial strain of legal work. As an extra wrinkle, Paizo says: “We offered a marketing agreement to [Archives of Nethys to] make the change less impactful, but those conversations were not concluded before they … Read more

Report contradicts Microsoft’s statements that id Software hasn’t been shoved onto Unreal from id Tech: ‘It’s most likely going to end up in the trash can’

One of the major victims of Xbox’s “reset” is id Software, which suffered a whopping 136 layoffs—a move one artist likened to reducing it to a “support studio”. This is a line that Microsoft itself has tried to counter, both via official studio channels and a statement given to Windows Central last week. More on … Read more

Redditor fashions a ‘game cartridge’ system for their Steam library out of cheap SATA SSDs

One Redditor has created a physical media project that not only laser-targets my cartridge-based obsession but also scoffs at the raging memory supply crisis. User Jibril-sama scored a bunch of second-hand 2.5-inch SSDs “for cheap” and has leveraged them to create a game cartridge system for their Steam library. The Redditor explains that the games … Read more