Botany Manor is an indie game by Balloon Studios where you play as botanist Arabella Greene, who putters around her big empty house growing weird plants. Publisher Whitethorn Games claims
Over the weekend, the unthinkable happened in Helldivers 2: players won. As part of a game-wide major order to wipe out the few remaining Automaton strongholds that millions of
If we’re talking triple-A games, the 2024 release calendar is looking a little barren, meaning hits keep coming from all sorts of unexpected places. It is, as Chris
I have spent a lot of time in the past week playing a little Steam game called Doronko Wanko. Which, if nothing else, has led to some awkward conversations whenever
Mark Brown of Game Maker’s Toolkit put out a Balatro video yesterday highlighting what he calls a “design problem” that I thought was just me: how hard it is
Last month I played a very bad video game. Last week I went on a podcast and talked about that game--Millennia--at length. Since we were discussing a new
Last week, Paolo Pedercini released The New York Times Simulator, a free, browser-based game where the player tries to juice the subscriber numbers of the eponymous newspaper while keeping
Everyone’s betting big on AI, whether it’s video game companies like Ubisoft and Unity or, perhaps foremost, Nvidia, which has seen its stock price skyrocket due to AI-
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
Near the end of an hour-plus long interview, while Geoff Keighley looks on, IGN Executive Editor Ryan McCaffrey says to Ken Levine, “I think the gaming industry is such
