Latest articles by Justin Wagner
Ron Gilbert canceled his Zelda-inspired RPG, in part because a good publisher is hard to come by these days: 'It's like they have formulas that they apply to games to try to figure out how much money they could make'
News The Monkey Island creator is moving on from his Zelda-inspired RPG.
Fortnite's latest live event drew in 10.5 million players to see Godzilla, Hatsune Miku, Homer Simpson, and countless other characters fight a giant squid man
News I imagine this is what watching Avengers: Endgame would have felt like to my grandfather.
Palworld publishing boss says 'I haven't really touched so-called AAA titles', adding that they tend to be 'overwhelmingly about graphic quality and fidelity'
News He added that the push for eye-melting graphics is "great" but doesn't interest him
After 13 years, Euro Truck Simulator 2 smashes its all-time concurrent player peak on Steam by dropping two DLCs with, let me check my notes here, more Europe and more trucks
News Nothing wrong with playing the hits.
Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says canon is 'whatever the owner of the IP says it is' but that's okay because 'the best part of interpretation is you can't be wrong'
News Cain used his long-running vlog series to discuss the lines between text, interpretation, and authorial intent.
This Half-Life mod reimagines the game as a boomer shooter—yes, even boomier than the original
News Half-Life: Element 64 brings Valve's legendary shooter a little closer to its inspirations.
Arc Raiders got a surprise cameo in South Park, and the devs learned about it just two days before the episode aired
News Park raiders.
For its 15th anniversary, anime sleuth 'em up Danganronpa is cheaper than ever by a wide margin—but only for a few days
News Dabble in some trigger-happy havoc for just over a dollar.
Team Cherry may not attend The Game Awards even though Silksong is nominated for GOTY, but they're pretty sure a different 'exceptional and broadly palatable' game will win
News Either way, it's the year of the parry.
Revived survival RPG Hytale already has a release date after springing back to life, but the owner is reminding everyone the game 'isn't good yet'
News The long-awaited Minecraft-like will finally be playable early next year.
GOG says it's 'proud to give Horses a home' after the horror game was rejected by Steam, but commenters won't let it forget the time it rejected another horror game
News Horses won't be leaving GOG, but it isn't the first game to get this treatment from big storefronts.
Step aside, Doom: Mad lad plays Minecraft using a receipt printer for reasons known only to him and God
News Beyond creative mode.
Magic: the Gathering's Monster Hunter reveal went so poorly that the whole thing is delayed: 'Back to the drawing board'
News Swing and a miss.
Baldur's Gate 3 is 'an inspiration' for CD Projekt, but it's all-in on big open worlds: 'We are definitely not going to make a game like Larian did'
news Open worlds aren't as novel now as they were when The Witcher 3 came out, but CDPR isn't keen to abandon its signature style.
Valve coder confirms the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC, albeit at a 'good deal': 'If you build a PC from parts and get to basically the same level of performance, that’s the general price window that we aim to be at'
News The Steam Machine's price isn't certain yet, but don't expect it to come subsidized.
This absurdly stylish side scroller feels like playing two different genres of retro shooter at the same time, and I love it
News You got your Contra in my Wild Guns.
The original Dawn of War games have 109 new Steam achievements after 20 years—if you have the definitive edition, at least
News Time for my 100th playthrough of Dark Crusade.
A 'small update' just shook up Deadlock's basic mechanics and tweaked nearly every hero
News The trooper changes invite comparison to, of all games, Heroes of the Storm.
A former Valve dev revealed how, while a VR version of Half-Life 2 was being made, a single metro cop's toe created a 'time-travelling' bug that softlocked all versions of the game
News The story of a toe, a door, and a very elusive bug.
One of the best horde shooters of all time is free to keep on Steam this weekend
News Vermintide 2 is worth a lot more than $0, so get in while the rat-killing's good.
Hytale honcho says early access will be $20 because 'charging more didn’t feel right': He doesn't think the game is good yet, but 'my team and I will push hard to make it good, then great'
News The Minecraft-inspired RPG may finally release after all, and Hypixel founder Simon Collins-Laflamme isn't keen to muck it up.
Nvidia reminds us it's not a gaming company anymore, but 'an AI data center infrastructure company'
News Doesn't have the same ring to it, somehow.
In October 2025, a full 205 months after the ill-fated life sim Spore first launched, someone walked into a store, found an old DVD copy on a shelf, and bought it
News Fess up: Which one of you was it?
