Stormforge Public Playtest Opens This July For Cel-Shaded Survival Crafting Chaos
Roboto Games has opened registration for the Stormforge public playtest, giving survival crafting fans their first shot at the game’s storm-battered fantasy world this July. As per the press release, sign-ups are now live on Steam. The announcement also arrived with a...
I Don’t Think Wolverine Is Going To Be Good. I’m Sorry.
I want to preface this by saying that I hope I am completely, embarrassingly, categorically wrong about this. I want to be the person who writes a follow up piece in 2027 where I open by quoting this article back at myself and spend five hundred words eating crow....Why the Level Up Sound Hasn’t Really Changed in 30 Years of Gaming
A modern RPG can render a thousand voices, yet the level-up chime still often follows the musical logic of older games. Higher-fidelity speakers and modern game engines didn’t erase the pattern either. Nostalgia alone cannot explain the pattern. A level-up...
What The Fuck Is Happening With Dragon Quest XII?
There is a version of this piece that opens with a calm, measured overview of the situation. A sensible breakdown of the facts, a few quotes from the developers, maybe a gentle conclusion about patience and trust in the process. I am not writing that piece. I am...
007 First Light Launches Today as James Bond Returns to Gaming
007 First Light launches today from IO Interactive and Amazon MGM Studios, bringing Bond back to gaming with MI6 action and gadgets.