Latest articles by Justin Wagner
This mad lad got Battlefield 6 to run on a 12-year-old AMD CPU, circumventing its stated anti-cheat requirements
News It even runs at a, ahem, stunning 40 FPS in 786p.
Before Titan Quest 2 gets a permanent price hike, you can grab the rare singleplayer-friendly Diablo-like on sale
News The price of admission for the mythical, solo-friendly ARPG is going up.
Microsoft Flight Simulator isn't just for nerdy dads anymore: Boeing will start using its tech to train actual pilots
News The Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer is "powered by" the storied aviation sim and Microsoft Azure.
The best playable game documentary on Steam is getting a Namco-centric DLC this week, including the worst version of Pac-Man
News Pac is back. Again!
Stalker dev GSC Game World DMCA'd a Stalker-inspired indie off Steam, and the devs are crying foul: 'This is an abuse of power against small independent developers by a large corporation'
News Misery, not to be confused with the Stalker mod, is currently unavailable for purchase on Steam.
To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub
news The Video Game FAQ Archive has come a long way.
Blue Prince developer announces 'a plea for help': one of the game's lead playtesters 'has only a few months to find a living kidney donor'
News Iggy needs a kidney.
Arc Raiders briefly overtakes Battlefield 6's concurrent player count on Steam as it proves to be one of the hottest PC games this fall
News Remember when it seemed that extraction shooters were, like, really niche?
NetEase racks up its third studio casualty in one week, kneecapping dev working on a Warhammer MMO: 'Devastated doesn't even begin to cover it'
News Jackalyptic Games has been slashed to ribbons, capping off a weeklong bloodbath at NetEase.
A new Arc Raiders update just fixed a bug where an otherwise underwhelming item could glitch you through walls, so I guess it's back to being underwhelming
News Deployable barricades had their moment. Back to the bottom tier.
Larian publishing director balks at Square Enix's push to replace QA workers with AI: 'The idea that QA people can be replaced at a large scale is stupid … They are a massively advantageous vibe check'
News AI's growing role in gamedev continues to polarize.
Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra has been delayed again, and it no longer has a clear release window: 'The team is working hard to create something truly special'
news Skydance's WW2-era superhero game is missing in action.
Hyperbeat review: Unlike any rhythm game I've played
Time flies Hyperbeat's take on the rhythm game is futuristic, original, and not to be missed.
The fourth Steam Scream Fest is here, and there's a lot more on sale than just horror games
News Rise from your grave—these deals are to die for.
EA employees are reportedly frustrated by a mandate to use AI, mocking the policy in Slack and suspecting it's being used as justification for layoffs
News AI tools in game development continue to prove both widespread and divisive.
A brainrot-themed Roblox game is taking a brainrot-themed Fortnite game to court for being 'a copy'
News I am tired of Earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.
Europa Universalis lead says design documents stifle creativity: 'You end up with a bunch of idea guys who write all the documents and the rest are there to follow'
News Johan Andersson's team at Paradox used to lean on the practice more, but Andersson said he "doesn't believe" in it these days.
Escape From Duckov quacks past 300,000 concurrent players only 10 days after release
News More than a splash in the pan, the hit indie extraction shooter is taking a victory flap.
Europa Universalis 2's launch was a desperate gambit for Paradox's survival: 'It needs to be done so it's sold in the US market before Christmas, because we need the money else we cannot pay people'
News The grand strategy giant had a hard time making its name.
It's Helldivers 2's Liberty Day, so break out your shovels and play Arrowhead's patriotic new Whack-a-Terminid browser game before it's gone
News It's like whack-a-mole, but more democratic and only available today.
Before Paradox became king of grand strategy, it made a Baldur's Gate-inspired RPG doomed by 'bugs, many and diverse, some more interesting than the gameplay'
News Gamespot called Valhalla Chronicles "an insult to anyone who can walk and chew gum at the same time."
A game jam game about pudgy chainsmoking dads seems to be Steam's latest co-op hit, hitting 100,000 concurrent players on its first weekend
News RV There Yet? is drawing players into Mabutts Valley with cheeky physics puzzles.
Europa Universalis lead Johan Andersson says Paradox's DLC model has been 'pretty f***ing great': 'You decide what's going in, you decide the scope, you decide exactly when you can release'
News Andersson said Paradox has several pipelines for keeping games "alive," and that it's a "pretty great system."
