It’s hard to think of a more iconic opening sequence in RPG history than the intro of Final Fantasy VII. After a CG cutscene that was groundbreaking in 1997
The lights temporarily brighten on the stage of The Town Hall, a historic New York City venue, and a crowd of over 1,000 people hushes into anticipatory silence. The
If you’re somebody who even semi-regularly keeps up with the news, you’ve probably already heard this one: These days, The New York Times is a games (and cooking)
Buildings shudder. Windows crack. Car alarms scream. Instead of fleeing the scene, a large crowd of citizens stands transfixed by the smoking wreckage of an upturned tank. My mission: to
Natalie Flores wasn’t going to let herself get laid off twice. She made her peace with the idea of getting cut from a games journalism job one time – she’
The Gamurs Group, otherwise known simply as Gamurs, is a network of websites catering almost exclusively to, well, it's in the name. It's home to loads
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: There’s a shadowy cabal that’s somehow equal parts diabolically omnipotent and comically incompetent. An entire segment of society dangles
When you think of Sanrio, you think of Hello Kitty; you don’t think of movies. But from 1977 to 1986, at the behest of founder and president Shintaro Tsuji,
Rob Loftus, ex-principal producer at Volition, calls what happened to his former workplace last August a “gut punch.” In a suspiciously coincidental bit of timing, the Embracer-owned studio announced that
Despite a digital audience of over 70,000 people, Peanut Butter was not nervous. “Arf!” the three-year-old shiba inu replied defiantly when asked by Aftermath if nerves got to him
This week, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) really stepped in it. The union, best-known for its work in Hollywood – including marshaling last summer’s
We’re not even two weeks into 2024, and already Square Enix has declared that it plans to be “aggressive in applying AI” to its game development processes. Nvidia has
