Big Walk Is At Its Best When You Totally Screw Things Up
A multiplayer game that's worth coordinating adult schedules for

Larian drops new Baldur's Gate 3 stats and you're all monsters: More non-Durge players killed Alfira than Durge and, worst of all, 9,000 people played on portrait monitors
Excuse me, I feel sick.

Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Direct Reveals Characters, Classes, Gameplay
The Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Nintendo Direct shared new gameplay details about characters, classes, and the story.
FFXIV Launches On Switch 2, With Limited-Time Waived Subscriptions, The Famous Free Trial, And Half-Off Subs For Multi-Platform Players | MMORPG.com
The critically-acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy 14 has arrived on the Switch 2--we've got the main details of what you need to know.

Microsoft will let devs bring more Xbox 360 games to PC in the coming years via backwards compatibility, leaked document suggests
Microsoft are set to start offering devs the option to bring Xbox 360 games to PC, leaked documents seen by The Verge have suggested.

Devs raise $130,000 in just five days to support laid-off peers
The game industry hardship fund bundle, meant to support game workers during ongoing mass layoffs, is over halfway through its goal of 200,000 USD.
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20 years ago, Dead Rising showed a different path for open worlds, and more games should pinch its ideas
Dead Rising showed developers there were different ways of doing open worlds. 20 years since its release, we go back and explore what we could of had.

Report shows 34% of physical PS5 games and 50% of Xbox Series X games do not work fully without a download first
Are consoles following PC's lead?

Do Not Buy The War Crime N64
There's so many ways to play the N64. You do not need to support Palmer Luckey's little project.

Things we shouldn't say in polite company - Sherif's blog
you know, the stuff that makes sense when you work on ATProto but makes zero sense for everyone else

Silent Hill Townfall: the series is coming to Scotland, but what fresh horrors will it bring?
An amnesiac loner arrives in a remote town for who knows what reason … this may sound familiar but this time we’re on a remote Scottish island and surprises lie in wait

I Hate Adobe
Adobe is a wretched, exploitative company that loves generative AI. Many are coerced into paying money for their software and the software runs like garbage.


The best farm sims and games like Stardew Valley
Games like Stardew Valley have fully taken root on PC, so now we're thoroughly spoiled for choice on new games to plant parsnips in.

Only seven PlayStation games have sold more than 100,000 physical copies in the US this year, analyst says | VGC
Sony will no longer be releasing new games on disc from January 2028…

Worse on Purpose
Investigative essays on corporate enshittification — how the brands you trusted made everything worse on purpose, and who profits when they do.