History’s Game Changers: Inside the Video Game Wars — A romp through gaming’s early days
Game Changers: Inside the Video Game Wars is a documentary airing soon on the History Channel (now known as History) that captures the great...
Quake II RTX is out now, and it’s ready to eat your GPU
Back in January, I wrote that Quake II was the best argument for Nvidia’s ray-tracing graphics cards. Obviously, the company heard me, because it...
How sci-fi MMO Destiny’s Sword makes you care about your soldiers
Destiny’s Sword has all the trappings of a huge sci-fi adventure: an intergalactic war, big mech suits, and team-based combat. But indie studio 2Dogs...
Swords of Gargantua brings heavy swordfighting battles to VR
Swords of Gargantua launches as a virtual reality swordfighting game today on the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Windows Mixed Reality, and Oculus Quest. Developed...
Oddworld: Soulstorm hands-on preview — Stealthy rescues in an industrial nightmare
Lorne Lanning, cofounder of Oddworld Inhabitants, gave me a good look at Oddworld: Soulstorm about a month ago. I talked to him about the next...
Oddworld: Soulstorm — How the devs created an industrial nightmare in 2.9D
Oddworld: Soulstorm is bringing its freedom train to the PC and consoles in 2020. It is a re-imagining of Oddworld: Abe’s Exoddus, which debuted...
E3 boss interview — Stanley Pierre-Louis says show floor is sold out, 65,000 people expected
Just a short time ago, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) was a video game trade show in crisis. Longtime CEO Mike Gallagher of the...
Modus interview: How Maximum Games is courting indie devs and studios
“Indie games are dead.” “Indie games are stagnant.” These proclamations come and go, as independent developers prove time and again that their market is...
Journey to the Savage Planet hands on — exploring a colorful, zany planet
Journey to the Savage Planet is a zany and upbeat game from developer Typhoon Studios and publisher 505 Games. You explore an alien planet....
What Oculus Quest nails and misses: Hardware, software, and pricing
Several days after purchasing an Oculus Quest, I shared my early experiences here, noting that I was on the fine edge of returning the...