Superhero Simulator promised the fantasy of being a hero while juggling a day job. What I got was a thankless, anxiety-inducing chore with a side of AI voice acting. It has a brilliant idea and a mountain of problems, and you need to read about it.

I went to Mars to build a theme park and ended up running a human suffering-for-profit scheme. Mars Attracts is a theme park sim from a bygone era of weird PC games, and it's one of my biggest surprises of the year.

Welcome to Castor Woods, where everything wants to kill you. Before you get your ass handed to you by the undead, read my essential guide to not dying on day one.

Valve, the undisputed kings of the microtransaction, have invented a new kind of loot box for CS2 that's somehow even more manipulative than the old one.

Imagine working on your dream game for ten years, only for Steam to forget to tell anyone it came out. That's the heartbreaking story of Planet Centauri.

Pocketpair's community manager has pushed back against criticism of Palworld's Early Access label, arguing that player feedback is essential and pointing to successes like Baldur's Gate 3.

Just days after Randy Pitchford's public meltdown, the actual developers at Gearbox are trying to put out the fire, promising a major performance patch is their "top priority."

I was ready to hate another city builder. Instead, I looked up and it was 4 AM. Town to City is a cozy, grid-less masterpiece that might be my new obsession.

The sun will kill you, but the things knocking on your door at night are worse. This is your definitive guide to surviving No, I’m not a Human and unlocking every single one of its fucked-up endings.

It turns out that making a masterpiece and selling it for a fair price is a good business strategy. Who knew?

Instead of, you know, fixing the game, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford's solution to Borderlands 4's performance issues is to tell players to get a refund. A bold PR strategy, to say the least.

The Xbox Series S has become the industry's favorite scapegoat, but the Battlefield 6 devs say the struggle to optimize for it actually made the whole game more stable.

Remember that stylish French RPG everyone's been talking about? It turns out Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has quietly sold a staggering 4.4 million copies, proving you don't need a billion-dollar budget to make a hit.

Remember that massive petition to stop publishers from murdering our games? Well, it got 1.45 million signatures, and now the real fight against the industry lobbyists is about to begin.

I wanted to love Candy Shop Simulator. It's cute. It's relaxing. It's also a hollow, unfinished shell of a game that was somehow released as a full product.

In news that will shock absolutely no one, a Star Citizen developer has already started walking back the 2026 release promise for Squadron 42. Insert surprised Pikachu face here.

In a story that's becoming all too common, the French voice of Lara Croft is suing Aspyr after fans discovered her voice was likely cloned by AI for the new remasters.

The corporate war on horny games has a new, bizarre battlefront: Steam's Early Access. Now, your adult game has to be 100% finished, or it's not welcome.

The creator of Dead Space wants to make an Alien game, which sounds like a dream come true. The reality? The industry is so broken right now that he thinks he may have directed his last game.

In a move that should terrify every game developer, Nintendo has successfully patented the idea of summoning a character to fight another. No, I'm not kidding.