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Nintendo Forcing Garry's Mod To Delete 20 Years' Worth Of Content
24.4.2024
Garry’s Mod, a popular 2006 sandbox game that emerged from the modding scene around Valve’s Source software, has recently been issued takedown notices by Nintendo. As a result, Facepunch Studios, the developers of Garry’s Mod, are in the process of removing about 20 years’ worth of Nintendo-related...
10 Games From The Palestinian Relief Bundle To Play First
23.4.2024
The latest bundle on indie game storefront itch.io, known for donating some of its proceeds to a good cause, is the Palestinian Relief Bundle. With Palestinians suffering unspeakable loss, along with starvation, a massive shortage of healthcare resources, and other humanitarian issues, the bundle...
Team Fortress 2 Patch Fixes Bug That Had Game Thinking Players Were Gordon Freeman
23.4.2024
Team Fortress 2 is 17 years old, and one day we are all going to die. The in-built cruelty of entropy ensures our universe is finite, and all things must eventually fade into heat-death. Staving off a small element of this inevitability was Valve’s online shooter getting a big patch last week...
Tomb Raider 3 Update Secretly Nukes Lara Croft Pinups
22.4.2024
Well, this is weird. Pinups of Lara Croft appear to have gone missing in Tomb Raider I-III Remastered following a patch earlier this month to fix a bunch of bugs. Whether intentional or not, some fans are now calling it out as heavy-handed censorship of retro classics.Read more
New Retro Shooter Mashes Duke Nukem And Half-Life Together
22.4.2024
Shelly “Bombshell” Harrison, along with her robotic arm and famous three-barrel revolver, is back in Phantom Fury, a new FPS boomer shooter adventure set after the events of 2021’s Ion Fury and its expansion.Read more
Cities: Skylines 2 Botches Beachfront DLC So Badly Players Are Getting Their Money Back
19.4.2024
The makers of Cities: Skylines II have pledged to focus on fixing the base game after fans revolted against a disappointing paid DLC. The $10 Beachfront Properties pack scored a stunning 96 percent negative rating in Steam reviews and now the companies behind the urban planning sim have apologized...
Everything We Saw At Nintendo’s Indie World Showcase
17.4.2024
Nintendo has delivered a brand-new Indie World showcase. It lasted about 20 minutes and gave us a look at some cute and cozy games, a few of which are launching today. Unfortunately, there was no Hollow Knight: Silksong news, but there was still plenty to get stoked about.Read more
Silksong Fans Won't Survive Another Round Of Disappointment
17.4.2024
Today, Wednesday, April 17, Nintendo held a short Indie World Showcase. The tension in the air was palpable long before it started, as fans thought this might finally be the showcase to give us the long-awaited indie Metroidvania Hollow Knight: Silksong—the follow-up to 2017’s critically acclaimed...
Real Hollow Knight Silksong News, Fake April Fools' Jokes, And More Of This Week's Biggest Stories
6.4.2024
April Fools’ is always a weird time for news, because it’s hard for us to discern the real from the fake. There were quite a few game-related April Fools’ jokes this year, but there was also a lovely, real bit of Hollow Knight Silksong news to balance everything out. Plus, this week had streamers...
Report: Life Is Strange Devs Dealt With Toxic Workplace, Crunch
5.4.2024
Life is Strange: True Colors and Before the Storm studio Deck Nine Games is the subject of a massive IGN report whereby current and former employees allege the studio was a toxic place to work, that there was studio-supported crunch, and there were leaders who only made things worse.Read more
What An ESRB Rating Means For Hollow Knight: Silksong
5.4.2024
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Hollow Knight Silksong’s April Fools’ Day Update Is Real
2.4.2024
This year, like every year, the gaming industry celebrated April Fools’ Day with a myriad of fake news to entertain fans. That included classic celebrations in Overwatch and the continuation of a tired trend by Palworld’s devs. But one of the most unexpected April Fools’ Day developments came from...
Earthblade, The Next Game From Celeste Devs, Has Been Delayed
28.3.2024
Earthblade, the next game from Celeste developer Extremely OK Games, will not be released in 2024. The fantasy Metroidvania platformer was originally slated for release this year, but has been delayed without a new release window.Read more
What You Need To Know About Stardew Valley’s Green Rain
20.3.2024
If you’re walking around Stardew Valley and see some green rain, don’t freak out. The green rain is a new weather condition added in the recent massive update 1.6, but it’s not dangerous or anything. Rather, it can be quite helpful if you know what to look for during these special rainy days....
What You Need To Know About Stardew Valley’s Newest Merchant
20.3.2024
Stardew Valley, the eight-year-old cozy farming sim, is new again thanks to its latest patch. Update 1.6 launched on March 19 and brought a long laundry list of bug fixes, changes, and new content to the game. It’s enough to get old and new players to dive in, years after its release. One of...
Stardew Valley’s Hefty 1.6 Update Has More Features Than We Expected
19.3.2024
Stardew Valley’s 1.6 update is finally here—and it’s bigger than any of us anticipated. The developer, Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone has been coy about some of the bigger features the update would introduce, teasing a festival and some new dialogue, but more or less left it at that for a long time....
At Last, Stardew Valley Will Let You Drink Mayonnaise
18.3.2024
Stardew Valley’s upcoming 1.6 update finally launches tomorrow, March 19, and its developer has been prepping us for the occasion by sharing a spoiler-free line from his patch notes daily. The lead-up to the patch’s release has been momentous for the devoted Stardew Valley community, which...
Nearly 30 Percent Of The Top 100 Steam Deck Games Aren’t Verified
15.3.2024
Recently, Valve published a list of the top 100 most-played Steam Deck games over the last 12 months. Digging into this much data is fun, and the full list is both a snapshot of recent trends and a reminder that old favorites are some of the most popular options on Valve’s portable PC. Read more
Here Are 2024’s Finalists For The World Video Game Hall Of Fame
14.3.2024
Every year the video game industry gets together during the Game Awards to celebrate the latest and greatest in interactive entertainment. But what about recognizing old games as the best of the best, the ones that boldly innovated new possibilities and paved the way for the best games of today?...
Stardew Valley's 1.6 Update Confirms Years-Old Fan Theory Is True
13.3.2024
Some Stardew Valley fans are feeling vindicated today after the game’s creator, Eric Barone, confirmed on Twitter that harvesting crops from left to right was faster than harvesting from right to left. Apparently, this bug will finally be fixed after being in the game since its launch in 2016.Read...