Latest articles by Tyler Wilde
The Expanse: Osiris Reborn will get pre-orderers in for beta testing nearly a year before launch
news The new RPG from Owlcat will be out next spring, but special edition pre-orderers will get access to one mission this April.
Discord hit with 'major outage' affecting voice chat (Update: fixed!)
news Voice servers were busted for over an hour on Wednesday.
AI gaslighting watch: Is there AI in my fridge?
Opinion Answer: No, but there could be intelligent life forming in its recesses.
Crimson Desert is the most hyped game I've seen in a minute
choo choo The open-world action RPG is out this week, and expectations are soaring.
DLSS 5 clearly overwrites game characters with AI beauty standards, but Nvidia says devs have 'artistic control'
news The first demo for Nvidia's new AI rendering technique doesn't do much to combat the perception that generative AI homogenizes artwork.
Marvel Rivals made Blizzard ask 'what if we could just drop 30 new heroes into Overwatch?' and inspired its biggest update ever
news The competing hero shooter "definitely had an impact" on Blizzard.
Major investor is 'shocked and sad' that the games industry is 'demonizing' generative AI
news At GDC 2026, the rift between big tech and creative workers was easy to see.
For the first time in years, there are no blockchain gaming talks at GDC
news NFTs are out, generative AI is in at this year's Game Developers Conference—though much of the industry isn't on board with that, either.
Slay the Spire 2 dev compared it to unexciting 'chicken noodle soup' before its extraordinary launch, but it turns out people really, really like their soup
news "It's not exciting, but I hope people like our soup," said Mega Crit co-founder Casey Yano.
'It's kind of like you're a butcher': Hundreds of Slay the Spire 2 card ideas were cut during development in an 'incredibly destructive process'
news Designing the hit roguelike deckbuilder involved a lot of culling, says Mega Crit.
The best PC games to play right now
What to play Colossal RPGs, ingenious puzzle games, surprise indie hits, and all the other great PC games we're playing today.
Slay the Spire 2 is the #1 seller on Steam, above Marathon and Resident Evil Requiem
news The roguelike deckbuilder sequel is an instant hit.
Highguard's failure is emblematic of something that has tormented videogame investors for years now: past live service hits do not equal future live service hits
RIP Another live service game is heading to the graveyard. Will the industry keep trying?
AI-generated images still can't be copyrighted as US Supreme Court declines to hear case
news AI users will have to demonstrate sufficient human authorship if they want copyright protections for images generated from prompts.
Netflix isn't going to buy Warner Bros after all, meaning Paramount is set to take HBO, Warner Bros Games, and the rest
news The acquisition was "always a 'nice to have' at the right price, not a 'must have' at any price," Netflix said.
Just Cause dev co-founder says the studio got too big and 'numbers focused,' so he quit and made a $25 open world crime brawler
Crime spree "We're not here to create funky business models, we're here to create great games," says Christofer Sundberg of his new studio and game, Samson.
Dr Disrespect lies about Marathon partnership
news The streamer was banned from Twitch in 2020 over inappropriate DMs with a minor, and now uses his infamy to extract denials from game developers.
OG Diablo 2 devs are 'proud' their classic is still getting love, even as they compete for attention with a new ARPG: 'We feel the pressure, but I don't hate them for it'
news As Blizzard breathes new life into Diablo 2, some of its original creators are back on the scene with an ambitious new ARPG called Darkhaven.
New Xbox boss promises no 'soulless AI slop' after moving over from Microsoft's CoreAI products division
news "We will not chase short-term efficiency or flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop," said Asha Sharma, the new CEO of Microsoft Gaming.
Judging by the GPT-4o situation, game developers will have a big problem if they get serious about AI chatbot NPCs
Playing with fire Balance patches that tweak guns and spells can enrage players. What if what you're re-balancing is their romantic partner?
One of the best puzzle games ever is getting surprise DLC even though its developer kind of closed a while ago
news Opus Magnum is a puzzle classic, and soon it's getting DLC that's "around half the length" of the original campaign.
YouTube was partially busted for a while, but it's fixed now
news YouTube wasn't fully down, but hundreds of thousands of users reported issues.
How often do we see game sequels totally shift genres?
Change-up The upcoming Control: Resonant moves from shooter to melee action. You sure don't see that very often.
