Latest articles by Justin Wagner
Man pleads guilty to generating songs with AI then having bots stream them 'billions of times' to make over $8 million in royalties
News "Although the songs and listeners were fake, the millions of dollars Smith stole was real."
Mega Crit responds to the panic over Slay the Spire 2's 1st balance pass, saying these changes are 'the first of many': 'No change is necessarily permanent'
News No need to break out the pitchforks.
That Dragon Quest MMO still isn't coming to the west, but it is getting a Gemini-powered AI slime companion
News Chatty Slimey will introduce conversational AI to Dragon Quest X.
Crimson Desert team apologizes after players find AI art in the game: 'Our intention has always been for any such assets to be replaced'
News "We also acknowledge that we should have clearly disclosed our use of AI."
An ambitious mod management tool for the original Baldur's Gate games just got a massive overhaul
News Plan your next playthrough of one of D&D's best videogame adaptations.
Minecraft's Diablo-inspired spinoff is getting a surprise sequel this year
News "With peace restored, all was well until it wasn't."
Toby Fox says 'most of the development team has moved on' from Deltarune's fifth chapter, as focus moves to bug fixes and translation
News "The actual testing period will last for an indefinite amount of time."
Steam gets big ups for promoting the human artists behind its latest spring sale graphics: 'Thank you for using real artists and not slop'
News Someone has to make all those Points Shop items, you know.
The remastered collection of the first Tomb Raider games just got a controversial patch with some truly terrible-looking new outfits: 'Lara deserves better than this'
News Players have taken to social media to share their disappointment.
This indie dev is making a Mirror's Edge-inspired freerunning game, complete with an in-game PDA that looks a lot like a PlayStation Portable
News Return to the late aughts.
Darktide is getting a new extraction-esque mode where you go outside and try not to die from radiation poisoning: 'If time runs out and you die, you get nothing'
News No PvP, but a familiar loop nonetheless.
Executive producer on The Simpsons says 'never say never' regarding a Hit & Run revival, even if he prefers the 2007 game
News There's no accounting for taste.
Embark CEO says 'a real professional actor is better than AI' after the studio re-records some Arc Raiders dialog with real humans
News Embark is not ending its use of generative AI, which it sees "first and foremost as a production tool."
'Even though I threw out my back from overworking, I'm feeling high in spirits': Slay the Spire 2 sold 3 million copies in its first week
News Players have attempted over 25 million runs.
The best CRPG docuseries on YouTube just covered Ultima 8 with a 3-hour retrospective
news The wacky adventures of Lord British continue.
Hytale lead says they're pushing for modding in part because they 'hire from the community': 'We're building a scrappy, agile team full of people who actually make things'
News "It makes the game bigger than the studio. It helps us discover talent."
One coder's 'winter madness project' was making the Dreamcast-era cityscapes of Crazy Taxi explorable in our browsers
News Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
Slay the Spire 2 dev says its Marathon joke turned out 'a bit meaner than expected' in hindsight: 'To be fair I didn't think we'd actually pass Marathon in concurrent users'
News "It wasn't supposed to be shade, we were being sarcastic 😭."
Scott Pilgrim EX review: Carboloading
vs. 🌍 The new golden age of beat 'em ups continues with a lighthearted, snackable brawler.
One of my favorite Next Fest demos turned out to be this speedrunner's delight modeled after 3D Sonic games, which just added ranked multiplayer races
News You're even good enough to be my fake.
Only 50 floppy disks of this prototype Japanese visual novel were ever produced, and one just got destroyed in transit: 'Today, an important piece of history has been lost forever'
News Tsukihime Trial Edition was already exceedingly rare, and now it's even rarer.
Space Marine 2 players are not happy with its new $5 voice lines DLC: 'Just scummy as hell'
News Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
One of the most impressive Star Wars mods in history just got a huge update, and co-op is on the table for the future: 'It has been almost a year-long journey to get to this point'
News TIE Fighter: Total Conversion goes from strength to strength.
