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.
Microsoft today unveiled 'Muse', the company's latest attempt to try to convince the world--and the video games industry in particular--that generative AI has a use case
Here is the story, told in three images, of the most 2025 American company imaginable.
Remember, at one point in history, GameStop was a bricks-and-mortar store that sold video games.
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
One hundred billion American dollars. Keep that in mind as you watch this.
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That video was made in 2025.
UPDATE 7:20pm, Feb 17:
Viktor Antonov, an artist and art director who played a major role in defining the visual style of some of most visually-striking video games in the history of the medium,
Longstanding conventional wisdom suggests that if you’re playing a game, and you intend to stop, but you succumb to the fallacy of “Well, just one more turn,” and then
The air is thick with anticipatory tension. There’s a vibe, a tingle, a sensation in the pit of everyone’s stomach. It’s like gazing upon a lightning rod
You'd think Sid Meier's Civilization--a game built on the same successful foundations for 34 years now--would be one of the most dependable video game series on
In December, shortly before Christmas, Activision terminated Allen Junge, a QA worker in Minneapolis, Minnesota. According to the Communications Workers of America (CWA), the union that represents Junge as well