Myst Sequel Riven Is Getting A Remake

Cyan is remaking Riven. The news comes today after 25 years since the best-selling point-and-click puzzle game achieved critical acclaim and commercial success, and two years after Cyan already remade its predecessor, Myst, for virtual reality platforms. Today’s announcement comes in the form of an understated trailer showing the symbol for Riven that links to […]

Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord Revealed, Coming To VR In 2023

A new Ghostbusters game coming to VR was teased earlier this year, and now the first official and tangible details about that game have been unveiled. Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord will launch on Meta Quest 2 and PlayStation VR2 in 2023. The newest Ghostbusters title has been created by nDreams, the studio behind […]

EA Will Release Three Marvel Games, Including Iron Man

Electronic Arts and Marvel have assembled a deal that gives the veteran games developer access to making games inspired by the roster of comic books heroes that Marvel has under its belt. The first Marvel title to be developed under the deal is Iron Man, which EA announced just last week. The game will be […]

Luigi’s Mansion Should Be The Blueprint For Future Mario Games

Mario is a hard character to love. He's a deliberately generic cypher and while that works in games like Half-Life when we're encouraged to see through the hero's eyes, Mario just feels very dull compared not only to the rest of the Mushroom Kingdom, but to other platforming mascots like Sonic, Crash, and Spyro. Hard […]

Dungeon Defenders Studio Chromatic Games Called Crunch "Passion Hours"

Dungeon Defenders developer Chromatic Games has been accused of a toxic work environment and excessive crunch nearly a decade after an earlier expose caused its former studio head to leave the company. Founded by Jeremy Stieglitz and Augi Lye in 2009, Chromatic Games first started out as Trendy Entertainment LLC, but rebranded after a 2013 […]

Paradox Games Are Too Long

Some people like to measure the quality of a game by how much time they can spend playing it before they have to put it down. If they can get 80 hours out of an RPG, they’re happy, and they feel cheated by the indie game that cost them twenty quid but only lasted four […]

Phil Spencer Admits Xbox Needs More "Big First-Party Games"

It's not been a big year for Xbox in terms of first-party releases. While PlayStation has the likes of Gran Turismo 7, Horizon Forbidden West, and God of War Ragnarok all out in 2022, over on the Microsoft side the release schedule has been much less busy this year. Microsoft's head of gaming Phil Spencer […]

Social Game VRChat Provides New Possibilities For Sign Language Support

The social game VRChat just opened up a whole bunch of new possibilities for sign language support as an accessibility feature by adding hand tracking in the most recent update. VRChat is currently in Early Access on Steam and other platforms. Hand tracking for the time being is only supported for Quest because of “platform […]