Latest articles by Justin Wagner
Baba is News: One of the best puzzle games of the last decade just got a major update seven years after release
News "This will most probably be the final large update for [Baba is You]."
'Happy Gloom Year!': The new Gloomwood update is out, and it includes the game's 'largest, most vertical open area' yet
News Gloom betide ye.
Pluribus lead Rhea Seehorn's career began as the 'tutorial sorceress' in a Magic The Gathering PC game from 1997
News As long as we're talking about this—the hive definitely plays mono blue, right?
Dispatch sold over 3 million copies in 2025, and only around five percent of players beat the game without romancing anyone
News Who's got time for romance? I've got a job to do!
Betty Boop, Blondie, and a slew of Mickey Mouse cartoons are entering the public domain, so let's hope for something better than bargain bin horror games
News Another year, another grab bag of expired copyrights.
Eric Barone makes $125,000 donation to the C# framework Stardew Valley uses, as well as 'an ongoing monthly commitment' in what the team behind it calls an 'extraordinary show of support'
News MonoGame has been used to make all sorts of notable games, including Celeste and Bastion.
This indie WarioWare-like released a teaser just to show off its 'game over' music, and after hearing it, I can see why
News Mindwave is shaping up to be just as groovy as its inspirations.
This sequel to a classic NES beat 'em up is about to be delisted from Steam, but you can get it for a few bucks in the meantime: 'The delisting process is currently underway'
News River City Ransom: Underground is dirt cheap until it's gone forever.
Some of my favorite childhood platformers are free on Epic for today only, and they've all been updated for better crossplay with Steam owners
News Trine's a little long in the tooth now, but its co-op antics are no less enjoyable.
Arc Raiders was Steam's best-selling game the week of Christmas, and Battlefield 6 wasn't far behind
News Casual-friendly shooters ruled the roost this holiday season.
Fallen Aces's second episode won't be out this year, but it will feature a first-person car chase with a tommy gun in both hands and a foot-operated steering wheel
News Bad news, rad news.
Rainbow Six Siege servers are back after hackers randomly doled out bans, unbans, rare skins and 'billions' in in-game currency
News Any transactions made with the sudden influx of credits have been rolled back.
'A good idea, infinite drive, and lots of Diet Pepsi': How YouTube essayist Majuular's life changed course telling the story of Ultima across 2 years and more than 20 hours of documentaries
What's it take to make "a real contender?"
Slay the Spire gets the best Christmas present a deckbuilder could ask for: a new all-time concurrent player peak on Steam nearly 7 years after release
News Slay bells jingling.
The best indie Pokémon-like on PC is free on Epic for a limited time
News Cassette Beasts may have stiff competition, but it boasts online multiplayer and a unique creature fusion system.
You might think reimagining Washington DC as a nuclear hellscape for Fallout 3 would have been grim, but it made the lead designer want to set the next game in his hometown: 'It's just kind of fun to blow things up'
News "I guess we were immature enough to just see that angle on it."
Fallout: New Vegas lead writer worries Caesar's argument for authoritarianism 'was done a little too well,' but still believes 'you can't just make your tyrants cardboard villains'
News Fascism's foothold in the wasteland mirrors the way it spreads in the real world.
Indie Game Awards pulls two awards from Clair Obscur over generative AI use: 'We have a hard stance against gen AI in videogames'
News Minus one victory lap for the J'RPG.
Google killed support for the Dreamcast web browser after 25 years
news There are plenty of homebrew solutions to get your Dreamcast online, but surfing the web will be a bit harder.
The New Blood-published 'immersive stealth FPS' Blood West is free on Epic—but only for 24 hours
News Just in case you thought Thief was a little light on eldritch horror.
Nobody can agree what an 'immersive sim' is, but OG Fallout lead Tim Cain has his own definition: 'The very elements that make something an immsim are the ones that I also think make good RPGs'
News Lots of games are immersive, lots of games are simulations, but which ones nail both qualities a la Deus Ex?
Valve has quietly discontinued the last LCD Steam Deck model
News A disclaimer on the Steam Deck page notes that no more would be made once sold out, and, well, they went pretty fast.
Silent Hill f's lead actor was worried her first stream of the game would 'end with an apology press conference,' but she ended up loving it and got millions of viewers
News Konatsu Kato didn't consider herself much of a gamer before the stream, but the response from fans was overwhelmingly positive.
