Few series continue to influence entire industries three decades down the line – fewer still if we’re talking about relatively obscure Japanese role-playing games. Suikoden, however, fits that bill. The
What a week Microsoft has had. On one hand, it published a clear game of the year contender in Avowed, a fantasy role-playing game jam-packed with surprises and inventive touches.
Avowed is a vast game with some weirdly complicated progression elements about which the jury’s still out, but I want to praise a moment of pure, perfect simplicity. Near
There’s been a flurry of unions at Microsoft-owned studios this year, and now we have a new one: yesterday, workers at ZeniMax Online Studios announced their union, ZOS United-CWA,
Today, Xbox revealed a new marketing campaign titled “This Is an Xbox,” a strategy that focuses on calling various things that are not Xboxes Xboxes in an effort to… well,
This week, Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two – whose CEO, Strauss Zelnick, six months ago denied closing two studios for what could best be described as no apparent reason – confirmed that
Nothing is more important than learning from your elders. As part of Back To School week, we decided to swap notes with the best: 404 Media, a website that’s
Microsoft will lay off about 650 people from its gaming division, largely in "corporate and support functions," according to an email from Xbox head Phil Spencer sent to
Following on the heels of Friday’s wall-to-wall union at Bethesda Games Studios, over 500 workers on World of Warcraft have unionized under the Communications Workers of America (CWA). Like
Workers at Bethesda Game Studios--the developers of the Elder Scrolls and Fallout series--just announced that they've unionized "wall-to-wall". That means this isn't just confined
