Latest articles by Tyler Wilde
Making good, profitable games 'will no longer keep you safe': industry expresses fury and heartbreak over closure of Hi-Fi Rush and Prey studios
news Gamers and game developers are reeling from yet another wave of layoffs and studio closures.
It's been an incredible few weeks for game companies making avoidable mistakes they immediately back down from
D'oh 2024 is looking like a big year for blunders.
I'm so annoyed that they're calling the new hobbit game 'A The Lord of the Rings Game'
news That's gotta be illegal in at least a few states, right?
Don't say Manor Lords was made by a 'solo developer,' argues competing city builder maker: 'The team size on it is maybe even larger than ours'
news The developer of Farthest Frontier takes issue with the notion that Manor Lords is a one-person production.
The idea that the Manor Lords dev should 'just hire 50 people' to update it faster is 'fundamentally not the way things work,' says publisher
news "The best growth is very slow. It's keeping the core vision intact."
Abiotic Factor, a 6-player survival game where you're scientists in a paranormal lab, is rising up Steam's top-sellers chart
news Hero of the universe Gordon Freeman? Not this time. In Abiotic Factor, you're one of the lab-coat-wearing nerds in the background.
The PC game releases we're most excited about in May
📆 Plus events, updates, and other PC gaming happenings to look out for this month.
'New Vegas is a very, very important game to us,' says mildly exasperated Todd Howard, who will never stop getting grilled about New Vegas
news As for whether another Obsidian Fallout could happen, he won't say.
Ex-Lego game devs formed a new studio to explore a completely different genre: Funko Pops
news Funko Fusion will be out this fall, and features "over 60 characters" from movies like Jurassic World, Hot Fuzz, and Back to the Future.
'Most ambitious' Vampire Survivors update yet features 'immersive door opening action' and 'world premiere train mechanics'
news The "AAAA" Vampire Survivors 1.10 update surprised dropped on Monday.
Steam closes refund policy loophole, finally comes up with a name for the thing where you can play a game early if you preorder
news Let's hope publishers play ball and stop using "early access" to refer to two completely different things.
Klei's new co-op brawler makes a strong first impression in early access
news Rotwood launched on Steam today at a discounted early access price.
German government wants games like Baldur's Gate 3 to 'also go on to be developed in Germany'
news Germany started giving out federal grants in 2020 to "achieve international competitiveness" in game development.
Coming up with 'skeleton outfits' was one challenge of being the Fallout show's costume designer: 'We dressed skeletons right and left'
news The show's costume department did "a ton of research" as it figured out how to distress the Wasteland's apparel.
18 times the Fallout show was exactly like a videogame
game logic The show takes a hilariously literal approach to adapting the Fallout games.
How do the Fallout show's Vault suits look so good? Niche Italian fabric, it turns out
news Cosplayers take note: You might have to up your fabric game to look as good as Ella Purnell or Kyle MacLachlan.
Fallout show creators decided on their own to faithfully replicate the iconic power armor: 'Bethesda didn't know what we were doing'
news Bethesda "never said" they had to make the power armor look like it does in the games, but it's so cool they did it anyway.
All this Fallout TV show buzz and no new Fallout game to play—but so what?
open the vault There are plenty of Fallout games to play, and people are finding them.
If the Windows 'update and shut down' option restarts your PC instead, it's not just you
news You aren't losing it, you really did tell Windows to shut down.
People who don't play life sims might not understand that they're 'the most complex RPGs ever written,' says Life by You director
news But they're inclusive and easy to pick up, which is why their popularity keeps growing, Rod Humble says.
The Fallout show's Lucy was described to Ella Purnell as a 'Leslie Knope/Ned Flanders-type' who would 'star in a toothpaste commercial but could also kill you'
news And Walton Goggins says he's never played a character more badass than The Ghoul.
The Fallout show's Wasteland looks so good in part because it's real: Some of it was shot in the same desert as Mad Max: Fury Road
news Locations included a real ghost town and "a bombed diamond mine that is now a hyenas' den."
Game studio owner suddenly lays everyone off and blames a Kotaku report that hasn't been published
news Possibility Space's founder claims that leaks to press—which haven't been made public—led to a conversation that closed the studio.
