Latest articles by Justin Wagner
Quake modders banded together to release the third Brutalist Map Jam, with two campaigns' worth of FPS goodness in 'a megalithic community project more than a year in the making'
News The Quake Brutalist Jam is back and bigger than ever.
'Yeah, that didn't suck. That was good': Fallout: New Vegas lead writer says the Survivalist's journal in Honest Hearts is 'one of my favorite bits of content that I've written in a game'
News The Survivalist's diary entries were one of the few writing contributions John Gonzalez made to New Vegas' Honest Hearts DLC before leaving Obsidian.
Fallout: New Vegas lead writer 'loved writing' Yes Man, but thinks his questline may have been a mistake: 'It lets you get through the game without getting your hands dirty'
news The sycophantic, (mostly) immortal robot made certain design constraints easier to work around, but it allows for a "rebellious, individualistic" player to bypass some tough choices.
'I'm over making other people really wealthy with my own creations': Fallout co-creator Tim Cain isn't interested in making a new IP or a sequel to one of his classic RPGs and, at this point, he's 'exasperated with the question'
News "I'm still making toys and I love them, and they make me happy."
2025 was so stacked with great games I missed the free, ass-kicking Christmas update to its best singleplayer shooter
News It's not too late to come home for Cultmas.
'There's a lot of cool things that, if you think too hard about it, they should never have worked': Fallout 3's pathfinding system had to be completely reworked over several months to account for Liberty Prime, but it was worth it because he's 'awesome'
News One of the most impressive set pieces in Fallout 3 took months of work to get right.
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.
