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It’s just tradition that Thomas the Tank Engine gets modded into every game. (Image credit: Larian Studios / RemuFO4 on Nexus Mods) The RPG Larian made before Baldur’s Gate 3 included an extensive mod development kit which could be used to build whole new campaigns with custom maps and NPCs and quests—something like Bethesda’s Skyrim…

No “live service” game lives forever, or in the euphemistic language of the games business, they all get “sunsetted” eventually. At a GDC talk this week, Velan Studios director of marketing Josh Harrison implored other developers to prepare for that inevitability, ideally by doing the thing we also hope they’ll do every time: making their…

The days of precariously storing your Wordle history in your browser’s cache are over: You now need a free New York Times account to see your stats. I know this because I am one of the holdouts who never connected their Wordle history to an account. Since the start, my Wordle record has been tied…

Crowdfunded space sim Star Citizen achieved a new milestone recently—the first player to seamlessly jump between two star systems on different servers—and now the guy in charge, Cloud Imperium Games CEO Chris Roberts, is indicating that the 1.0 release might finally be in sight. It’s been over a decade since Roberts first showed me a…

Upcoming game Pools looks similar to other games based on “The Backrooms,” the creepypasta notion that you can noclip out of normal reality and into mazes of “liminal spaces” that resemble ’90s office buildings or unused meeting rooms at a Marriott. In this case, though, we’re trapped in a pocket dimension of pools: all square…

At a time when mass layoffs are rampant in the games industry, one company is talking about raises. Capcom announced to investors this week that it’s increasing its base starting salary for new hires in Japan, and giving current employees a raise of “over 5% on average” this year.  It’s a moderate cost-of-living bump that…

The biggest Chivalry 2 update since they added horses is out now. Like the previous updates, Duel of the Fetes adds some new maps (three deathmatch maps, in this case) to my favorite first-person medieval warfare game, but it most notably comes with two major new features: skill-based team balancing and support for unofficial servers.…

The first day of spring is almost here—at least for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere—which can only mean one thing: there’s a seasonal Steam sale this month. There are also some pretty cool-looking games coming out, particularly a pair of very different RPGs at the start and middle of the month: The Thaumaturge,…