Latest articles by Justin Wagner
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."
Somehow, Heroes of Newerth returned: One of the first standalone MOBAs is back, but fans are mixed on its new look and bizarre launcher
News The once-defunct game's remaster will enter open beta November 11.
One original Halo designer blasts the new remake, wonders if the point was just 'Occupying an enormous art team while you figure out what to do'
News "What have they done to beloved B30?!"
A cheap SanDisk memory card was just found completely unscathed inside an underwater camera found among OceanGate submersible wreckage
News A host of images and videos were recovered from the encrypted card, but none reveal new information about Titan's implosion.
If emulating classic DOS games seems like a pain, there's a DOSBox fork 'aiming for simplicity and ease of use', now standalone for the first time
News Run the likes of Civilization and Daggerfall as God intended, now easily loaded directly from ZIP files.
Hearthstone and Warcraft Rumble devs join the over 1900 Blizzard workers to unionize: 'We deserve to be heard and respected'
News Workers at Blizzard continue to fight for their rights.
Arc Raiders designer says Marathon's reception 'was a great A/B test': 'They made decisions that we didn't, and vice versa … we could compare and contrast how some of those things shook out'
News Both extraction shooters are hotly anticipated and gathering crucial feedback before launch.
