Atari has entered an agreement to acquire Night Dive Studios. This agreement would support Atari’s retro-focused growth strategy and provide access to Night Dive’s IP, which includes System Shock, as well as utilize the studio’s proprietary KEX engine and publishing capabilities. Chairman and CEO of Atari Wade Rosen said in …
Read More »Best Board Games for Adults (2023)
When you hear the term “board games,” you might think of things like Candyland and Life. But board games have come a long way from the days when they were mostly for kids. To pigeonhole board games like that ignores the fact that the majority of board games on the …
Read More »Growing Up and Gaming with a Disability
It’s very easy for disabled people to feel betrayed when a game lacks proper accessibility, and rightfully so. How can studios expect us to celebrate these innovations and victories if we still can’t play their games? But if there is one lesson I’ve learned from personally playing and professionally critiquing …
Read More »Twitch CEO Emmett Shear Is Stepping Down After 16 Years
Emmett Shear, CEO of uber-popular streaming platform Twitch, is resigning from his position after more than 16 years at the helm. Shear announced his departure in a Twitter thread today. According to screenshots of his blog post, the birth of his son made him pause and reflect on his future …
Read More »The Last of Us: Predicting Season 2
This article contains full spoilers for The Last of Us Part 2. If you have not played the game and want to remain spoiler-free for HBO’s TV show stop reading now! HBO’s The Last of Us has been an undeniably successful television adaptation of the beloved Naughty Dog game. Now …
Read More »The Believer Company Launched by Former Riot Execs, Creating Open World Game Based on New IP
Former Riot Games executives have launched a new studio called Believer to create a next-generation open world game based on an original IP. The Believer Company’s leadership team includes former Riot Games vice president Michael Chow as CEO and former executive producer of League of Legends and Riot co-founder Steven …
Read More »Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Is a Litmus Test for Live-Service Games
Rocksteady Studios is an insanely talented game developer. If they didn’t single-handedly prove that you could make an amazing AAA superhero video game, they sure as hell get the lion’s share of the credit thanks to the deservedly beloved Batman: Arkham trilogy. But they left Batman behind after 2015’s Arkham …
Read More »Shinji Mikami to Leave Tango Gameworks After 13 Years
Famed game developer Shinji Mikami, well known for directing the original Resident Evil and The Evil Within, is leaving Tango Gameworks after 13 years. Confirmed in a tweet from Bethesda (below), Mikami will be leaving the studio — which he founded in 2010 — in the coming months. "We can …
Read More »Re:Call’s Memory Manipulating Puzzles Are Snappy, Smart, and Truly Standout
When I first started playing Re:Call, I was wearing green overalls and I had a cup of tea on the table next to me. Or, wait. Maybe I was wearing blue overalls and I was drinking cocoa. Or could they have been pink overalls, with a cup of coffee? That’s …
Read More »Wild Hearts Review
Do you dream of the chance to get dropkicked by a lava-monkey the size of a building? Of course you do, and goodness gracious is Wild Hearts excited to make that dream a reality. Omega Force and EA’s take on co-op monster hunting is a remarkably familiar one, spicing up …
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