On Friday night, the inscrutable whims of the YouTube algorithm landed me on Barber Westchester, a full-length, independent animated film from 2021 that I’d never heard of before. Here’
Public implosions are on my mind this week. On the journalism side of things, we saw media startup The Messenger shut down after less than a year in the centrist
Spec Ops: The Line, Yager’s 2012 “what if Call of Duty but also Bioshock” shooter, has been delisted from Steam, with other online stores to follow. It’s a
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League has been at the center of some controversy this week, not just for it going live yesterday (for people who pre-ordered) only to be
A pre-production Deus Ex game has been cancelled and 97 employees have been laid off, Bloomberg reported Monday. It will not surprise you that Embracer Group had a hand in
Confusing mobile game ads are basically a meme now, with perhaps none quite so notable as Hero Wars. For years, we were taunted by auto-playing ad rolls of logic puzzles
Microsoft is laying off 1900 people, or about 8% of its gaming division workforce, The Verge reported Thursday. The layoffs will largely affect people at Activision Blizzard, the company Microsoft
MachineGames showed the trailer for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle at yesterday’s Xbox Direct. The Wolfenstein studio’s take on the film series seems like fun, but I
Shots continue to be fired in the Epic v Apple case, that 2020 dustup that saw Fortnite removed from the App Store after Epic launched its own payment method in
