Author: [email protected] (Tyler Wilde)

In this rapidly changing world, it’s some comfort to me that ragdolling remains as funny now as it did 20 years ago. Flailing limbs are one of the two main sources of humor in Helldivers 2, which has been one of the funniest game launches in a while. What makes the human cannonballing especially funny…

Fellow cape-wearers, I’m broadcasting to you from the bridge of the SES Fist of Individual Merit with good news: Due to “accounting errors,” you’re getting 50% extra XP and Requisition awards in Helldivers 2 this weekend.  “Responsible parties are undergoing reeducation,” says the effect’s in-game description. The accounting errors in question are really just a…

After a couple weeks of rumors, Xbox diehards were bracing for a cataclysm today: Was Microsoft really going to announce that it’s going to give up on Xbox console exclusivity—or even consoles themselves—and start releasing its big games, such as Starfield, on PlayStation 5? It turns out: No, not really. Xbox boss Phil Spencer did…

RBO looks like just the thing for a group of goofy Discord friends: a “physics-powered” heist game in which one player must protect their house while a group of unallied intruders attempt to rob it. Publisher tinyBuild officially announced RBO today, although public testing started at least a couple weeks ago judging by comments on…

The generative AI company behind ChatGPT and DALL-E has a new toy: Sora, a text-to-video model that can generate pretty convincing 60-second clips from prompts like “a stylish woman walks down a Tokyo street…” and “a movie trailer featuring the adventures of the 30 year old space man wearing a red wool knitted motorcycle helmet…”…

Immortals of Aveum, a singleplayer shooter that released last year, totally flopped, and one person who worked on it reckons that “trying to make a triple-A singleplayer shooter in today’s market was a truly awful idea.” If you also subject yourself to the crucible that is social media videogame discourse, you may have recently seen…

The next big Baldur’s Gate 3 patch is coming this week, and although its kissing-related changes are obviously the star, there’s more to it than “improved smooches.” Larian announced today that the patch will finally fix a party management inconvenience that I imagine near-universally prompted players to think “ugh, that’s slightly annoying” an hour or…

Rumor has it that Microsoft plans to release at least some of its Xbox console exclusives on PlayStation 5. This Thursday, we’ll find out if it’s true. Microsoft gaming boss Phil Spencer acknowledged the rumors last week and announced that he’d reveal Microsoft’s “vision for the future of Xbox” this week. We’ve now learned that…