Latest articles by Justin Wagner
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.
Shovel Knight dev's next game doesn't have a single parry, pulling from Castlevania and Bloodborne instead of Sekiro: 'Every game has a parry now … even Doom has Dark Souls stuff in it'
News In Mina the Hollower, "limitations are what provide the fun."
'I’ve never used AI and probably never will': Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu reckons 'fluctuations and imperfections' are what make music satisfying
News Uematsu, who worked on the soundtracks for Final Fantasy XIV and Chrono Trigger, isn't tempted by generative AI.
Just in case you thought reviving dead games seemed easy enough, GOG had to hire a private investigator to find an IP holder living off the grid for its preservation program
News Marcin Paczynski told The Game Business he could "write a book" on the strange routes GOG has taken to keep games available to buy.
The sleeper hit of the Fall might be this mad lad's hyper realistic traffic management sim that uses real census data and a 'distance-based gravity model' to produce millions of NPC commuters
News Subway Builder bills itself as a "hyperrealistic transit simulation game."
'Remember Beach': Arrowhead has awarded thousands of 'inexplicably dedicated' Helldivers 2 players with a commemorative 'Avengement Day' after they ignored High Command to save a planet reminiscent of Halo Reach
News Master Chief, you mind telling me what you're doing on Seyshel Beach?
Expect to serve up 'floor chicken casserole' in the new Two Point Museum update—a crossover with, of all things, Vampire Survivors
News Players will be able to hoard dangerous vampire-killing weapons, both to display and, uh, give to staff.
With a lawsuit looming, World of Warcraft private server Turtle WoW has issued a formal plea for a fan server licensing: 'We hope that Blizzard embraces fan‑driven content as its own legacy, rather than alienate this passionate community'
News The letter cites community-driven servers in games like EverQuest and Minecraft.
Skyrim's lead designer reckons open world games are 'almost a cliché statement' these days, and that Skyrim owes its continued popularity to a focus on player agency: 'We didn't put anything off limits'
news Skyrim's 14th anniversary might be sneaking up on it, but players still can't get enough of Tamriel's tundras.
