Latest articles by Christopher Livingston
After being laid off from his triple-A 'dream job', this developer made a game about a disgruntled ex-employee seeking revenge on the corporate world
News In Vindefiant, your character "unleashes his powers and sparks a path of rage and destruction to get revenge on his former employer."
Dune: Awakening will have in-game radio stations featuring everything from Harkonnen propaganda broadcasts to classic '90s Dune tunes
News There will also be a "full multi-episode radio play."
A Minecraft Movie review roundup: some say it's 'okay,' others say 'it isn't actively boring'
News Most critics seem to think Jack Black's blocky blockbuster is a bit mid.
Here's what happens to your base in Dune: Awakening if you take a long break from Arrakis
News It's not the same base decay system found in Funcom's other sandy survival game, Conan Exiles.
'I'll believe it when I see it' says Josef Fares about a Split Fiction movie: 'There’s a lot of talks, but nothing happens'
News Fares also doesn't know the status of the movie version of another Hazelight game, It Takes Two.
Schedule 1 roadmap includes adding a 'classic fishing minigame,' plus parkour and heroin
News All the makings of a great weekend.
GTA RP: How to play on GTA 5 roleplaying servers
Let's Role Everything you need to know to try GTA RP for yourself.
You may act like Walter White and look like Rick & Morty, but this co-op drug-dealer sim blowing up on Steam isn't just a goofy meme game
news Schedule I may look cartoony, but so far it's a great sim with engaging systems and well-paced progression.
Former Bethesda dev went indie in part because of Fallout 76's noxious reception: 'If you put out a game that people don't like, the internet's gonna treat you like you're clubbing baby seals'
News Everybody's a critic.
I laughed, I fell, I ragequit: Baby Steps is a hilarious walking simulator I can't wait to watch speedrunners try to defeat
Footloose Climb a mountain, one awkward step at a time.
The hardest parts of open world walking simulator Baby Steps are 'harder than Getting Over It by quite some distance,' says Bennett Foddy
News You thought climbing a mountain in a cauldron was hard? Try doing it in bare feet.
Kings under the Mountain! 33 Enshrouded players spent 10,000 hours to recreate this iconic location from The Lord of the Rings
It only required mining 220,000,000 blocks, so no biggie.
'You're a very long arm. You steal things. It's a comedy game,' explains developer of comedy game where you steal things with a very long arm
News My Arms Are Longer Now is a heist game where you play as a 'yucky long-armed thief.'
By the time Bethesda was on Starfield, you'd 'basically get in trouble' for breaking schedule, says former dev: 'A lot of the great stuff within Skyrim came from having the freedom to do what you want'
News Fus by numbers.
The 5th highest-rated game on Steam in 2022 is back with a multiplayer sequel
news The ducks are back, and they've brought friends.
From Palworld movies to Palworld TV shows: 'Everyone under the sun pitched us every idea you can imagine,' says Pocketpair's communications director
"Nothing's happening at the moment," John "Bucky" Buckley said, though he added: "We're still always thinking about these things."
Former Bethesda dev who quit Starfield to go solo says it's 'much less stressful as an indie' without daily meetings or 'office politics': it's 'very refreshing to just care about the game'
News Nate Purkeypile released his first solo game, The Axis Unseen, last year.
'Players don't explore': former Grand Theft Auto 6 and Red Dead Online designer lays out the perils of 'open world fatigue'
News "They're wondering, 'Okay, how far away is the next thing? I really gotta run all the way across the map?'" said Cameron Williams of Absurd Ventures.
Inzoi's 'Smart Zoi' AI system sounds great on paper but seeing it in a live demo didn't exactly wow me
News AI is supposed to give the life sim's characters better reasoning, but I'll believe it when I actually see it.
Balatro's publisher doesn't know how big the 1.1 update will be or when it's coming: 'He's just gonna show up one day and say, here's 100 new jokers'
News "I don't think he'll let us know when [Balatro 1.1] is gonna drop," said Wout van Halderen, the communications director at Playstack.
'Humans still surpass machines': Roblox has been using a machine learning voice chat moderation system for a year, but in some cases you just can't beat real people
news Yup, we're still good for something.
Game dev union marches through industry event to demonstrate that it's about 'taking action and organizing change'
news The United Videogame Workers took to the halls of the Game Developers Conference to announce itself on Wednesday.
Balatro's LocalThunk isn't 'trying to pull a Banksy', he just 'wanted to be left alone to make his game'
News According to his publisher, LocalThunk’s anonymity is less about artsy obfuscation and more about minding his own business.
