Latest articles by Justin Wagner
Former Unreal Engine 'lead evangelist' Sjoerd De Jong leaves Epic Games, says the industry is reaching a 'pivotal' moment that he must 'come to terms with'
News "After 27 years of Unreal Engine, and 12 years at Epic Games and Unreal Engine I have decided to move on."
One of the best ways to play Morrowind just got better with improved scripting support for magic mods and a host of crash fixes
News OpenMW's 0.51.0 version has hit the proverbial shelves.
Don't Starve Together hits new concurrent player count peak a decade after release
News Don't Starve's eatin' good.
Data analyst finds 'AI stigma' on Steam can reduce the number of reviews a game gets by around 53%—and the reviews it does get are more negative
News "For high-potential games, the 'AI stigma' is real and severely punishes developers who otherwise would have succeeded."
The team behind bullet hell FPS Luna Abyss just got laid off, less than a month after the game's release
News Another deluge of layoffs in a year full of them.
The videogame market is as big as ever, with PC leading growth—global games revenue surpassed the $200 billion mark in 2025
News Market analyst Michiel Buijsman reckons GTA 6 will be 2026's "defining commercial catalyst."
Former Dragon Age writer says AI could make gamedev 'frustrating as hell': 'How are we going to train up the next generation of devs if we eliminate every entry-level task?'
News Part of the sales pitch for AI is that it can carve out tedious 'busy work.' Should it?
Stellaris celebrates 10 years (and a new DLC) with a free weekend and a 70% discount
News The sci-fi strategy game is getting on in years, but it's no less active.
Guild Wars 3 is 'significantly more' of an MMO than the first game, but that doesn't mean it's like GW2: 'All three of our games can coexist as different experiences'
News GW3 is definitively an MMO, but ArenaNet says it won't play like either of its predecessors.
Bobby Prince, the legendary composer behind Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, has died
News Prince helped define the sound which characterized the early FPS, as well as classic PC games like Catacomb 3-D.
Palworld studio says 'gamers don't want' AI in their games: 'It feels like everyone who is super gung-ho about it isn't from the industry'
News It's not the first time Pocketpair's John Buckley has spoken out against the tech.
The new NBA game's street balling is strong, but it's way too sweaty for its own good
Alley-oops Ice cream, ice cream!
Hide-and-seek game where you paint your body to blend in sells a million copies in four days
News Meccha Chameleon is the latest indie smash hit centering silly multiplayer antics.
Blizzard sues to kill another World of Warcraft private server for 'large scale, egregious, and ongoing infringement of [its] intellectual property'
News Project Ascension is in the MMO studio's sights.
Spore devs say the evolution game's previews were more ambitious than what they were actually making, and they 'built a fantasy in people's minds that was unachievable'
News The evolution sim that was never meant to be.
Nintendo's legal battle with Palworld looks shakier than ever: It may only get '$30,000 chump change' if it wins at all
News It looks like Pocketpair will come out of this largely unfazed.
'Make some noise': Vanillaware reportedly wants more of its games on PC, but it's up to the publishers
News The studio behind Odin Sphere and Unicorn Overlord "totally wants" more of its games on PC.
New Crimson Desert patch lets you hoard 100 pets and gives you more chainsaw access
News More pets, more chainsaws. What else are videogames for?
Generative AI 'was only used as a reference,' Crazy Taxi creator says: Artists would 'look at that generated image and draw the actual thing'
News I don't think this really improves the situation.
Xbox's big pitch for the future sure involves a lot of going backwards
Opinion The recent Xbox Games Showcase was a parade of revivals seemingly hoping to stoke the flames of console rivalry.
Sea of Thieves will get custom games and machinima creation tools
News A saltier sort of sandbox.
Aion 2 producer says it's good to have 'friendly competition' with Guild Wars 3 'during this period where MMOs are struggling'
News Guild Wars 3 isn't the only NCSoft-published MMO on the horizon, with Aion 2 gearing up for global release.
