Balatro developer LocalThunk has marked the second anniversary of his hit indie roguelike with a heartfelt blog post that ended: “Yes, I’m still working on 1.1.” Balatro was… Continue reading
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League of Legends esports just lost its most exciting team, proving once again that hype can be a bad thing
If I’ve learned anything about the games industry over the past few years, it’s that there’s such a thing as too much hype. Just take a look at… Continue reading
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Big new World of Warcraft Midnight class tuning patch is bad news for Warriors and Mages, but makes healers more deadly
Blizzard has a big round of class tuning set for its next World of Warcraft patch, targeting “overperforming outliers” while also buffing up a few struggling specs “to… Continue reading
Ever since last month’s presentation of The Game Awards, a lot of attention has been placed on Highguard, the upcoming live-service hero shooter, that had the unfortunate luck… Continue reading
Brought up on mascot platformers and role-playing games from Japan, Ryan has been passionate about gaming for over two decades and has been writing about games for half… Continue reading
Now that the dust has settled on Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, it’s evident that it wasn’t what the most hardcore fans wanted it to be. While still a… Continue reading
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“Triple-A is in crisis” and games “don’t have staying power because they’re bad,” says ex Gears of War director and Painkiller creator
“Triple-A is in crisis,” Astronauts and People Can Fly founder Adrian Chmielarz tells me. We’re chatting Witchfire, and the gaming industry more generally, and how 2025 feels like… Continue reading
Update [Tue 23rd Dec 2025, 4:05pm]: In case you missed it, Sega held a Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties Direct late yesterday, which promised to dive deep… Continue reading
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“We were worried he’d never work with us again” – Dispatch creators on working with Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul, and whether he’d want to be involved again
Two of the lead Dispatch creators believe Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul wouldn’t have agreed to be in the game had he realised how much work it would… Continue reading
The fine folks over at Digital Foundry have provided a full tech review of Skyrim on the Switch 2 and, well, when you look at some of the… Continue reading
