Balatro, the poker-themed roguelite, has successfully appealed PEGI's decision to classify it as PEGI 18 and has now been recategorised as suitable for players aged 12 and up. About a year ago, developer Localthunk commented on PEGI's perceived mishandling of
Microsoft boss Satya Nadella has said the company plans to train its new gaming AI on a "catalogue of games" soon, so it can then "start playing them". Speaking on the Dwarkesh Patel podcast, Nadella described seeing Microsoft's gaming AI Muse generate gamepla
Bungie has turned a Destiny 2 bug that mistakenly made class-locked Exotic weapons available to all into a feature. Whilst acknowledging the team "won't always look at weird bugs and decide to support them as a feature", Bungie admitted that class lockouts for
Monster Hunter is back with a bang on current-gen consoles. Wilds - the latest series entry - features a seamless open world in a series first, plus plenty of visual bells and whistles courtesy of Capcom's RE Engine. So can the longstanding series hold up to c
The most exhilarating and refined Monster Hunter yet, even if its attempts to balance the old and new don't always quite coalesce in its ongoing quest to please all audiences. Let us consider for a moment the duality of Monster Hunter. At a basic level, it cou
A former boss of Amazon Games has detailed why the company couldn't compete with Valve's Steam platform for PC sales. Ethan Evans was VP of Prime Gaming at Amazon until September 2020, and in a recent post on LinkedIn he detailed how Amazon "failed multiple ti
Bossa Games, the London-based company behind indie hits Surgeon Simulator and I Am Bread, has announced a second wave of job losses - just a year after it previously shed a third of its staff. In a statement posted to LinkedIn, company co-founder Henrique Olif
After reports circulated over the weekend that NetEase is allegedly pulling back on its international game investments by "actively shopping around more of its non-Chinese studios", NetEase-owned Rebel Wolves has reached out to assuage fears, reiterating that
Obsidian's fun and colourful Avowed doesn't sound like a one-and-done effort by the developer behind The Outer Worlds and Fallout: New Vegas. Avowed arrived last week to a positive reception, and now a Bloomberg interview with the game's director Carrie Patel
A former Nintendo employee has predicted the Switch 2 will launch in June, with a release date announcement due in the forthcoming Direct in April. The employee, known only as Sean, was sales lead in Nintendo's sales and retail department and appeared on the K