Upcoming indie RPG says forget about looting treasure chests—now you are one

If you’re looking to add a little magic to your Halloween night, why not try putting together a game night with your closest friends?

Diablo 4's loot is good now, and Blizzard's president really wants you to know it.

Artifact, the news aggregation platform developed by Instagram's co-founders, has been getting more and more features lately powered by artificial intelligence (AI). On September 13, a new feature called Links was announced that allows users to post links and view a more personalized feed based on their interests. At the Code Conference, the platform also rolled out the feature that lets users create posts, with the aim of making Artifact a place for much more than just reading the latest headlines. Now, its cofounders have announced that Artifact is introducing the ability to share recommended places.

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Part of me would love a VR headset, but the rest of me lives in a flat, which means I'm usually thankful that most VR game trailers don't do much for me. Besides Half-Life: Alyx and Superhot, there aren't many games that have me wishing I had an Index or Quest.

Six months after confirming that the once-thought-free upgrade to Ark: Survival Evolved would actually cost $60, Studio Wildcard has finally given players a peep at what’s to come – through a simple screenshot that’s already being gently teased by the community.

The golden age of cheap memory and SSDs has been good to us all, but like all good things, it was never destined to last. At least not according to Techspot, which has reported that, due to forthcoming production cuts, the industry is likely to see an upswing in consumer prices towards the end of this year.

Gamers are finally warming up to Peter Parker's controversial new face, even if it took some nudging from Spider-Man actor Yuri Lowenthal who said that fans need to "get over" it. While they mostly have, a new challenger has entered the ring. And it ain't Bonesaw.

Baldur’s Gate 2’s more complicated companion characters were unexpectedly inspired by a JRPG from across the globe: Final Fantasy 7.

For years before director Dan Trachtenberg was established enough to get a Predator movie made, he imagined a scene where a lone Comanche warrior faced off against a bone-armored hunter from beyond the stars. That vision panned out into a worthy studio gamble; when Trachtenberg’s Predator prequel Prey hit Hulu in 2022, it was lauded as a reinvention of a tired franchise and one of the Disney-acquired 20th Century Studios’ first straight-to-streaming hits. Today, Trachtenberg says it’s hard to shake what made the project so special to him — especially with sequel talk aflutter.

Players have been blessed this last decade by the tremendous resurgence of tabletop gaming. Not just board games, mind you, which have been humming along for the better part of 15 years or more. No, we’re experiencing a renaissance of tabletop role-playing as well. Lead by the pop-culture phenomenon that is 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons, the global marketplace is full to bursting with independent creators who have been inspired to drop incredible experiences seemingly every other week. None stands taller among its peers than Mörk Borg, a rules-light TTRPG from Free League Publishing. For this October’s Prime Day, it’s on sale.

The New York-based indie studio Dang is closing after releasing only one game, but what a game. The hyper-fast and movement-focused Boomerang X released in 2021 and was notable among other things for supporting an experimental type of gyro controller, the Flick Stick, as well as mouse-and-keyboard, so that players could whizz its deadly shuriken-boomerang around in the fanciest of patterns. The game sits with around 800 "Overwhelmingly Positive" reviews on Steam though, judging by this announcement, that sadly didn't translate to sales.