With Sony arguing it’s always been licensing and people know it, the community has started collecting evidence of Sony specifically calling it ownership on their own website, contradicting their claims.
Wardogs' closed beta ends TODAY. Here's the exact end time, what to know before it shuts down, and how Twitch Drops actually work if you're still trying to claim rewards
I just wondered what happened to the weekly “What are you playing”-thread and it seems it went on a long summer break. Outdoors. Without electronics. Or Internet.
As a big Elden Ring person with an additional 600 hours in Nightreign, the FOMO of FromSoftware’s next multiplayer experiment, The Duskbloods, being a Switch 2 exclusive was hitting me hard. That is, until I actually played it: I spent the majority of the closed network test held over the weekend confused about what the hell was going on, and even when I finally learned, I wasn’t particularly impressed.
Vapor World: Over The Mind is a Soulslike Metroidvania with an evocative, painterly art style reminiscent of Lies of P and the narrative platformers of Playdead. According to Korean studio Alive Inc, the game had 100,000 wishlists just before its early access launch on August 19, mostly on the strength of a demo available since January 2025.
The relevant section is blunt. “The Software is licensed to you, not sold,” the EULA states. “You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and personal license to play or use the Software for your private, non-commercial use on the system or device it was intended for.”
Days after Deus Ex director Warren Spector announced that he was quitting the business, another former Ion Storm developer, Harvey Smith, has revealed Black Pony Immersive - a new studio dedicated to the creation of “imaginative first-person action RPGs set within well-realized worlds, where players create their own memorable experiences with expressive, emergent game systems.” The announcement features the maxim: “through the looking glass, we’re chasing a dream of mystery, meaning, and creative play.” Hey, I understood that reference! Sure sounds like an imsim shop to me.
Mrwhoistheboss says that margin rose from 30 to 80% for memory companies and that the playstation price may increase from 400 to 1000. Does that really add up?
“It’s time to sue Sony,” game preservation advocates Stop Killing Games have declared, as the group throws its weight behind a Dutch lawsuit targeting the PlayStation Store’s alleged monopoly and “Sony Tax” on digital games.
I’m looking to get into driving games and would like to buy a wheel. Budget is not that much of a constraint, but it doesn’t need to be expensive for no reason.
Sharing because Kayin’s talk about achievements made me think about why do I even accept them in games at all so I disabled them in Steam (the only way to do this is by disabling the whole overlay =_=) and found that I don’t miss them at all.
I’ve been writing about accessibility and the disabled perspective for nearly 7 years. I’ve had the absolute privilege and immense responsibility of breaking some of the biggest stories in the gaming industry, holding powerful organizations accountable, and even helping disabled players process uncomfortable truths about a community that doesn’t always have their best interests at heart. For almost 7 years, I’ve been pushing myself to be a better journalist, not for myself, but for disabled individuals that deserve to have a voice in the gaming space. But for the past six months, I’ve realized that things need to change.
I am personally of the opinion that because Jared Kushner (Trump’s son-in-law) is involved we will see a MAGAfication of EA sports titles.
It is one of the few mediums Project 2025 hasn’t been able to crack and to reach a younger audience this will be their mechanism.
I’m having an absolute blast with this game. You are establishing communication with an alien probe, and after some hours of gameplay it still is completely plausible.
The machine before me looks like Frankenstein’s homebrew version of Guess Who. Its main panel is composed of three rows of portraits. Some show men in 1930s suits, others women in flapper dresses, still more are simply blue people-shaped silhouettes. Below each portrait is a simple on/off switch. To the left of the portraits is a slide selector alongside a list of locations. Above that is a radio dial and filament lights indicating a current setting. At the bottom of the machine is a readout displaying a cryptic code ‘01-QU-1-11’. And, to the right, most enticing of all, is a big red lever.
Roguelikes are infamous for their ruthlessness: instant deaths that could only be prevented with spoilers, early game hell gating most of the game for those who aren’t able to learn all the intricacies of the system, many ways to permanently cripple your character in one wrong move, unbalanced classes / builds with no clear indication on what’s a good choice for a beginner…
The Game Narrative Reader is a collection of links built to resemble an anthology textbook. It’s a survey of key topics in video game narrative design, composed from essays and articles published elsewhere by their respective authors. It’s meant as a resource for students, educators, and practitioners.
121 countries are unable to make PSN accounts, which means that they are unable to use the PlayStation Store. In a digital-exclusive future—which looks likely for the PS6 after Sony announced plans to cease production of game discs in 2028—that means everyone in those countries will be locked out from purchasing titles on the platform.
I just thought it’d be hilarious if a dev named their game, like, “Warhound 2” or something when there was never an original “Warhound” lol (and like, do so seriously, not just as a parody or joke, at least primarily so).
Beguiling: ability that forces a creature to become the caster’s companion;
Siphon Vim: transfers health from a creature to the caster for several turns.
Back in the NES days games that were localized for American audience heavily censored any overt Judaeo-Christian imagery or reference to death. Churches no longer featured crosses, the Death spell was renamed to “RUB”, and the Kill spell was renamed to “XXXX”.
SCS Software has announced the development of the Coaches DLC for “Euro Truck Simulator 2”. With this DLC players will be able to drive buses alongside trucks.
CoQ’s main quest inevitably forces you to delve into Golgotha (ancient sewers or something like that) to retrieve a broken robot. Black slimes dwell there and they will likely afflict you with “stiff legs”. And then after some time your movement speed will start decreasing while your armor will increase.
Kinda vague title, but I was trying out some of the Atelier games recently and while I do find the crafting interesting, I can’t stand the “slice of life"/CGDCT style they have. Yumia seems to be a bit more interesting but the gameplay is too simple and balancing seems to not take into account the crafting system, which makes it really unsatisfying to play.
Finished the game the other day. Like my other post, this isn’t a review or a declaration. Just chatting about games I’m playing and posting some thoughts.
Looking to play some games with a friend who has a really trash laptop. Browser games seem like the only way of doing that. If any of you all have suggestions let me know. Could be any genre (except maybe puzzle games?), as long as it is multiplayer in some way. I think they like cute games but it doesn’t actually matter. ideally doesnt require making an account to play (but if it is good enough I might). If you have any ideas, post it in the comments.
Modern takes on old games are some of my favorite indies and this blog post explains the appeal really well. Lunacid is kind of like King’s Field and Shadow Tower but in the end the developer is KIRA, not From Software, so the game will feel different no matter how close to the original formula it is.
I’m gotta admit: I love vampires. Not as a friendly neighbor who drinks ethically sourced blood but as an evil monster who hunts for humans’ blood and turns into bat/fog/wolf at will.
Hello everyone. I’m new to this discussion forum. I’m a paper-and-pencil board game creator who goes by the name Mind GamZ. I have created and released two board games up to date, those being “Harbor-Bound” and “Total Order: It Takes 2,” released in 2025 and 2026 respectively. Both, and probably all of my future game releases, will be free to download. All you need to play the games are the rulebooks, the printable component files, and a strong noggin, or make that two, because both of my released games are two-player. I like to make abstract, logic-based games, so if you are interested in playing them, or simply if you are curious about them, my boardgamegeek account is linked below:
Xbox are reportedly closing or spinning off Psychonauts developers Double Fine, Hellblade studio Ninja Theory, and South of Midnight creators Compulsion Games, as Microsoft commence efforts to yet again “reset” their billion dollar gaming business after already laying off thousands of staff, cancelling games, and closing several studios over the past couple of years.
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