Video Games - Aftermath (Page 28)

Why Roblox Mega-Hits Like Grow A Garden Are Outpacing Steam’s Biggest Games

For better and, often, worse, traditional video games have calcified. If you check Steam’s top ten most-played games on any given day, you’ll likely find a lineup of

By Nathan Grayson

/ 23 May 2025

Why Roblox Mega-Hits Like Grow A Garden Are Outpacing Steam’s Biggest Games

This Video Game Is Also a Hockey Training Tool

I’ve been playing hockey for a little more than a year now. I’m not very good, but I am getting better. In between games, I’ve been using

By Nicole Carpenter

/ 22 May 2025

Nicole standing in a crowded space holding a hockey stick

I Am Excited To Report That It Is Once Again Time For Famicase!

Every year, Meteor in Tokyo run a cool little exhibition where artists imagine an interesting/funny video game and design a cartridge for it, even though the game itself does

By Luke Plunkett

/ 21 May 2025

I Am Excited To Report That It Is Once Again Time For Famicase!

GeoGuessr Map Makers Make Most Popular Maps Unplayable In Protest Of Saudi-Backed Esports World Cup [Update]

Late last week, the Esports World Cup – a known vehicle for Saudi government sportswashing – announced that popular location guessing game GeoGuessr will be participating in its upcoming Esports World Cup

By Nathan Grayson

/ 21 May 2025

GeoGuessr Map Makers Make Most Popular Maps Unplayable In Protest Of Saudi-Backed Esports World Cup [Update]

Clair Obscur's Real Heroes Came Before Expedition 33

Before Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which has been the talk of the town since launching on April 25, creative director Guillaume Broche was working on a precursor known as We

By Ian Walker

/ 21 May 2025

Clair Obscur's Real Heroes Came Before Expedition 33

We Should Treasure Every Game That Still Gets A Nice, Physical Re-Release

As the video game industry continues to move towards an all-digital future, and as people have started learning what that means--we are trading ownership for convenience--it feels like there'

By Luke Plunkett

/ 20 May 2025

We Should Treasure Every Game That Still Gets A Nice, Physical Re-Release

My Watch Has Ended: Fortnite Is Back On The App Store

After five years, Fortnite returned to the Apple App Store today. As someone who woke up one morning in August 2020 and tossed up a quick blog about Epic introducing

By Riley MacLeod

/ 20 May 2025

My Watch Has Ended: Fortnite Is Back On The App Store

Oh No, Anyway

I opened Linkedin the other day--I am addicted to scrolling through the depravity of its most popular members, please send help immediately--and was greeted with an alarming moment of self-reflection.

By Luke Plunkett

/ 19 May 2025

Fortnite’s AI Darth Vader Has, Predictably, Been A Comedy Of Errors

Last week, Epic continued its ongoing project of forcing every existent tech trend into the metaversal melting pot known as Fortnite by adding an AI-powered version of Darth Vader to

By Nathan Grayson

/ 19 May 2025

Fortnite’s AI Darth Vader Has, Predictably, Been A Comedy Of Errors

The Hundred Line’s Darumi Amemiya Is Mortifying And I Will Defend Her With My Life

Darumi will frequently name drop her favorite erotic games, forcing your character to play them should you interact with her, often in ways that foreshadow narrative events in the game. It gives me no pleasure to admit that she has frankly fantastic taste in the genre.

By Chris Person

/ 19 May 2025

An anime character with blue hair and the text "Darumi Amemiya" next to her. She has makeup on in the form of fake teeth and

How Giant Bomb Went Un-Corporate

Just a couple weeks ago, it seemed like Fandom was on the verge of blowing up Giant Bomb, a website known for its personality-driven persistence in the face of multiple

By Nathan Grayson

/ 16 May 2025

I Also Have A USB Stick Full Of Game Ideas, But I Will Share Them With You Before I Die

I woke up to some weird, if also not entirely unexpected news today: Hideo Kojima has a USB stick filled with game ideas, which he wants the staff of Kojima

By Luke Plunkett

/ 15 May 2025