Hot on the heels of their incredibly cool Pokemon pinball machine, Stern Pinball Inc. already has a new machine queued up for play. Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye is their newest effort, and we got to play a ton of it at IGN Live and at Summer Games Fest. Good news: It’s really fun, … Read more
The World Cup sent everyone football mad. Sorry, sorry – “football mad,” as say the legions of USA fans whose top tier national league features fifteen teams with ‘FC’ in their name. If World Cup 2026 has taught us nothing else so far, it’s at least amply demonstrated that football fans love a friendly debate. … Read more
Commodore (yes, that Commodore) is rolling things back once again with the Callback 8020, a cell phone “with no social media, no email, no browser, and no apologies.” The Callback 8020 has a very familiar early 2000s flip phone aesthetic and runs Sailfish OS, a “completely de-Googled experience” running “99%” of Android apps but selectively … Read more
Psychonauts developer Double Fine has responded to the reports of its potential closure with a single emoji. The San Francisco studio is one of a number of Microsoft-owned developers reportedly fighting for their future amid a significant shakeup at Xbox that is expected to result in layoffs across the gaming business later this month. Hellblade … Read more
Microsoft is reportedly planning to shut down South of Midnight and We Happy Few developer Compulsion Games. The Canadian studio was founded in 2009 by former Arkane developer Guillaume Provost as a work-for-hire unit. Its first game, puzzle-platformer Contrast, came out in 2013. Survival horror game We Happy Few followed in 2018, published by Borderlands … Read more
Viral hide-and-seek paint game Meccha Chameleon is celebrating 2 million copies sold with the launch of a new map later this week. Developer lemorion_1224 announced the sales figure update with a post on their Steam page. It’s a quick thank you to the fans who have found the game, promising to gift them a new … Read more
Hellblade developer Ninja Theory and Psychonauts developer Double Fine are reportedly among the studios fighting to avoid closure as Microsoft makes significant cuts to the Xbox business. Bloomberg reported that Compulsion, Ninja Theory, and Double Fine are all negotiating with Microsoft to potentially go independent, although doing so would still likely result in significant layoffs. … Read more
Wins and losses. KOs, TKOs, and submissions. These sensational headline-grabbers are essential, but they only make up one part of the bigger, brutal picture. The pieces that are arguably more important — the countless bloody knuckles, cuts, gashes, and bruises it took to reach that point — often get lost in all the pre- and … Read more
Final Fantasy returning to turn-based combat through the upcoming Final Fantasy Resonance is a pretty big deal, even if you were just going off the reception to its initial reveal. Many folks, including myself, are thrilled to see the series’ name attached to a game with an HD-2D art style and have the story of … Read more
Treyarch studio head Mark Gordon will be leaving the studio after 22 years. Treyarch announced the news on its socialsconfirming that Gordon is leaving to begin the next chapter of his career, which has yet to be announced. Yale Miller and Kevin Hendrickson will take over as co-studio heads going forward. Miller and Hendrickson have … Read more