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Storied game designer Cliff “CliffyB” Bleszinski, who worked at Epic Games in the Unreal days and was lead designer on the first Gears of War trilogy, recently celebrated a bittersweet anniversary. “11 years ago I started Boss Key. Sigh. It was amazing at first and then, well, it broke me for a good long while,” … Read more

There aren’t many truly metal games—except for those that are accidentally very metal, like Dark Souls—but Brütal Legend is one of them. As Tyler pointed out yesterday, the late Ozzy Osbourne makes a cameo in the 2009 Double Fine action-adventure. Now the latter has made the game free on Itch.io to honour the prince of … Read more

The launch of any new World of Warcraft expansion, Classic or not, always begins with the fastest players racing to see who can reach the new level cap first. For Mists of Pandaria Classic, which dropped earlier this week, players competed to see who could blast through level 85 to 90 before anyone else. When … Read more

Someone stop Supergiant from adding more stuff into Hades 2. The sequel to one the best action RPGs of all time was already overflowing with all kinds of new characters, weapons, and bosses when it launched in early access last year. And now, several updates later, Supergiant keeps messing with it as it nears the … Read more

MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER (Image credit: Future) This week: Played loads of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 and realized he never really knew what he was doing in THUG 2 for the PS2. It’s increasingly impossible to ignore how ugly Call of Duty has become. In the last few months alone, Black Ops … Read more

Sometimes the world delivers you a bit of proof that you’ve done a good job cultivating your online environment. For me, that proof was seeing RPG Site post on Bluesky about Ironwing Valiant: Record of Astera—a Valkyria Chronicles-inspired mecha action game from indie studio Tiger Team—and watching as a bunch of sickos near-instantly flooded my … Read more

The United Kingdom’s Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) has signed a new “memorandum of understanding” with OpenAI, a non-binding document that will nevertheless see the unaccountable chatbot maker thrusting its technology into any area of the UK public sector that smells vaguely like money. Ain’t life grand. For its part, the UK’s Labour … Read more

When asked how it could justify an $80 price tag for upcoming RPG The Outer Worlds 2, developer Obsidian had a sympathetic response: Ask Microsoft. Ask we all did, and it seems the Xbox overlords eventually agreed with the public’s bafflement—or at least didn’t like the looks of The Outer Worlds 2’s pre-order numbers—because Obsidian … Read more

I played Final Fantasy 11 for the first time in 2024 after an episode of the Abnormal Mapping podcast poisoned me with brainworms hungry for an MMO that, since its launch in 2002, has been left largely untouched by the genre conventions World of Warcraft would formalize in the years that followed. It’s like an … Read more

Ah, you know how it is. Once you go on a GPU buying spree, it’s difficult to stop yourself from adding a few thousand more to the pile. I’d imagine, anyway. The Wall Street Journal reports that xAI is working with private equity firms to secure up to $12 billion in order to lease a … Read more