I wonder, when was it that microtransactions became so ubiquitos in the big-budget gaming space that the lack of them became a legitimate selling point? Was it a year ago? Five years? Well, however long ago it started, having no microtransactions is still cause for celebration. Does their absence mean Crimson Desert will automatically be…
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Epic CEO Calls Out Steam…Again
Okay, so this isn’t important news, but I thought it was kind of funny, so here we are. Steam has been around for a very long time now, and it’s pretty much been the king of video game distribution on PC for most of that time. It’s not perfect, but it is, even to this…
Highguard is Out And It’s Doing About as Well as Expected
After its baffling reveal as the “one more thing” closer of the night at the 2025 Game Awards, Highguard and its developers entirely disappeared from the web as the discourse surrounding it grew ever more negative. The strategy was, as some theorized, to wait until launch day, go for a big reveal and take gaming…
PlayStation Store Has a Slop Problem
It seems gamers have found the first big stinker of the year in Teamkill Media’s Code Violet, with discourse around it focused almost entirely on just how bad it is. By all accounts, it’s a short, shallow, thrown-together buggy mess of a game that doesn’t even come close to the same galaxy as the game…
Shift Up CEO Claims AI is Necessary to Compete with China
Last year we saw the rise of AI slop in everything from YouTube to TV and even games in some places. It was annoying, certainly, but at the very least the impact still felt minimal. Well, unfortunately for us, it’s looking like the slop is going to keep flowing and to ever greater extents. Triple…
Xbox Series Outsells…the Sega Genesis
Yeah. The Xbox Series systems have (only just) out sold the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. This, ah, news was brought forward by VGChartz.com, which reports that the Xbox Series X/S has sold around 34.10 million units during its lifetime so far. For comparison, the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive sold 34.06 million over the course of…
Larian Announces ‘Divinity’ at the 2025 Video Game Awards
The announcement of Divinity is old news by now, but I wanted to talk about it because of the circumstances around it. First, it’s kind of funny that it’s getting much more attention and discussion than Highguard, the chosen “one more thing” at the end of the show that was supposed to set the internet…
Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. Games
I won’t pretend that I know any thing about corporate-scale business, but I’m starting to wonder if the people running these companies actually know all that much more, I mean, you’d think keeping a company that brings in tens of millions of dollars a year solvent would be relatively doable, but I guess not. So,…
So…Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Might Get a Remake?
Rumors have been swirling lately that Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time might be seeing a remake as early as January next year. The thing is, Prince of Persia is, and has always been, a Ubisoft property. If it was the Ubisoft of the 2010s making this potential remake, I’d be excited. But this…
Star Citizen Breaks Yearly Crowdfunding Record Somehow
You know, as much as I’d like to just hate on something that I personally consider a scam, I’d rather just say that I really hope that everyone invested in the project is happy with what they’re getting out of it. Really, I do. There was a time when it looked like Star Citizen was…
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