Latest articles by Tyler Wilde
You don't see the Havok logo much anymore, but the legendary physics middleware used in Half-Life 2 never went away—just the splash screens
Interview An icon of 2000s gaming wants us to know that it's still being used in big games, even if SSDs mean hardly anyone has time to show its logo anymore.
Rematch passes 100K Steam concurrents in open beta as 'Rocket League but with feet' turns out to be a winning idea
news The soccer game from Sifu developer Sloclap might be a winner.
Tempest Rising accidentally launched a week early on Steam, and the publisher has decided to just go with it
News An advanced access special edition bonus became an advanced access every edition bonus. Whoops.
I hope they didn't make the Oblivion NPCs hot
Face off Oblivion is a game about weirdos. How will they look in the remaster?
We called its first cyberpunk setting 'cooler than Night City,' and now the studio behind The Ascent says it's making 'the kind of game that every developer wants to work on'
news Details are sparse, but Neon Giant says its next game is "ludicrously ambitious", first-person, and focused on "player agency and creativity."
How to play Baldur's Gate 3 multiplayer, and whether or not you should
dream team How to set up, save, and resume a multiplayer game, and the pros and cons of Baldur's Gate 3 co-op.
Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman
news To justify Medicaid cuts, House Speaker Mike Johnson says the healthcare program leads to "able-bodied young men" playing videogames instead of working.
'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know
news Our champion Steam spender has dropped a new car's worth of cash into Gabe's yacht fund.
'Just make a very good game': Sloclap never considered making Rematch free-to-play, and dismisses the idea that online games can't succeed with a price tag
news The studio's new competitive sports game, Rematch, will cost $30 when it releases this summer.
Developer of 'non-consensual sex' game withdraws it from Steam after it's banned in the UK, Canada, and Australia: 'We don't intend to fight the whole world'
news The developer defended the adult game's content, but withdrew it from Steam following political pressure and public censure.
Soccer fans should be paying attention to Rematch, the 5v5 game coming this summer from the developer of martial arts hit Sifu
news Rematch is out in June, and there's a closed beta this weekend.
OK this is too far: Someone brought an actual chicken to A Minecraft Movie
news The cult of chicken jockey has escalated its ritual ceremonies.
Cops called as A Minecraft Movie sends kids into chicken jockey frenzies
news Showers of popcorn are adding a festive touch to screenings of A Minecraft Movie.
I never actually looked up what Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is about, and there's some bonkers RPG lore behind the title
Paint by Numbers There's a reason it's called Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and whether you like that reason will depend on your patience for absurd RPG premises.
We haven't even gotten over the sting of $70 games and now Nintendo's asking people to pay $80 for Mario Kart
opinion Could the $80 standard come to PC next?
The best FPS games on PC
Updated Our favorite FPS experiences of PC gaming's past and present.
The PC game releases we're most excited about in April
📆 A much anticipated puzzle game, a big RPG with a strange premise, a return to the RTS golden age, and more.
Valve fans come together to smash the Steam concurrents record for the studio's least-popular game: 'We all know Ricochet is the best Valve game ever made'
news Ricochet finally gets the respect it deserves.
'It's easy to play with other people': Den of Wolves devs confirm that you don't have to talk to your teammates at all to be able to complete missions
News Music to my socially awkward ears.
Ex-Payday 2 devs think they've solved the problem of player in-fighting for their next co-op heist game: 'The bar is low'
News Rest easy, there's no friendly fire.
'It satirises itself because it's so freaking evil': Den of Wolves isn't a satire on late stage capitalism but it doesn't help that its doomsday scenario is starting to unfold
News Hey ChatGPT, how do I destabilise a government?
Elon Musk says he's sold X to Elon Musk's xAI
news Elon Musk's xAI now owns Elon Musk's X, if that makes things clearer.
Game Informer is back from the dead: 'The whole team has returned'
news The US magazine was reopened by Gunzilla, a game developer and blockchain operation co-founded by film director Neill Blomkamp.
