With the second season of HBO’s adaptation of The Last of Us now in the rearview, Studio Head and Head of Creative at Naughty Dog, Neil Druckmann, has announced that he’s stepping away from the show. While the first season of the cult video game TV adaptation was met with rave reviews, the second came …
Mobile gaming is set to shatter expectations in 2025, with revenue projected to reach $126 billion. This insight comes from the newly released Q2 2025 edition of The Xsolla Report: The State of Play, which outlines a rapidly evolving mobile ecosystem driven by hybrid monetization, direct-to-consumer (D2C) models, and a dramatic legal shift in the …
OPINION – We’ve all been there at some point: a deadline is looming and you still have work to do, but you know that you can get it done if you just knuckle under and squeeze some extra work time in. So what if you have to clock in for 12 hours every day for …
PRESS RELEASE – July 3, 2025 – Hellkind, a short and atmospheric horror game steeped in Galician mythology, has officially launched and is now available to download for free on Windows and Mac. Created by Turkish developer Emir Arkman (known under the alias Motamot) Hellkind is a solo passion project crafted during late-night hours outside …
PRESS RELEASE – July 3, 2025 – Indie game developer Wechselbalg Studio is proud to announce that 3 Tower, the atmospheric horror game that blends eerie storytelling with intense survival gameplay, is now available in Early Access. Set in a mysterious cemetery haunted by troubled souls, players take on the role of a nightwatchman caught …
PRESS RELEASE – July 2, 2025 – Bandai Namco Summer Showcase set the tone today for a sizzling summer for game fans, delivering news and reveals for more than a dozen hot titles, and unveiling one “Smashing” new game. Announcements and reveals during the Bandai Namco Summer Showcase include: MY HERO ACADEMIA: All’s Justice Bandai …
SNK is a Japanese studio/publisher best known for its range of beat ‘em ups, including the King of Fighters series. This month (July 2025) it has started delisting classic arcade games from Google Play. Nine games are affected, including two King of Fighters games and three Metal Slug titles. Another Metal Slug game, Metal Slug …
The upcoming 6.2 patch for League of Legends: Wild Rift will premiere a new Player Behavior System designed to encourage good behavior with exclusive rewards and punish bad behavior by banning players from core features like Ranked and normal PvP games. League of Legends: Wild Rift is a mobile strategy and action game developed by …
PRESS RELEASE – July 2, 2025 – Wise Wombat Games, a single-developer studio based in Austin, Texas, is launching their first title Resonant Blade on PC July 22, with plans for eventual release on consoles. Battle a horde of AI-powered robots hellbent on destruction by attuning the ultimate sound-based weapon, solving complex puzzles, and exploring …
PRESS RELEASE – July 2, 2025 – From solo developer Dariusz Pietrala comes Wicked Cabins, a relaxing diorama builder where players create peaceful hideaways in the world’s most unpeaceful places. Equally eerie and heartwarming, it’s a game about transforming haunted and cursed spaces into cozy little sanctuaries. No rules. No timers. No pressure. Whether brewing …
PRESS RELEASE – July 2, 2025 – After announcing that the full version of Pioneers of Pagonia, the Early Access indie hit, will be released on PC in the second half of 2025 with the long-awaited story campaign, the award-winning development studio Envision Entertainment has now released a major economy update with new content following …
The Stop Killing Games initiative aims to, in a nutshell, change the law so that video games are sold with end of life support. Too many studios and publishers now sell video games as a limited-time (though unstated) license and not an actual product, and even if a game comes on physical media there’s rarely …
PRESS RELEASE – July 2, 2025 – The game’s convention season kicks off this week in Los Angeles, at Anime Expo (July 3-6), where attendees can experience the exciting Ninja battles featuring the second volume of emblems on a massive 50-inch display, along with special giveaways and daily random prize drawings. The Ninja battles continue …
PRESS RELEASE – July 2, 2025 – Midjiwan, the award-winning independent studio behind The Battle of Polytopia has today announced The Polytopia World Championship with a prize pool of $10,000 and a live final broadcast from Stockholm. The Polytopia World Championship is set to launch this fall, uniting players from across the globe in an …
PRESS RELEASE – July 2, 2025 – Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders just passed a massive milestone. Indie team Megagon announced they’ve hit 1 million players! To celebrate, they’re releasing a real gamechanger of an update, launching simultaneously on PC and Xbox today, and it’s for free. The ‘Freestylers’ update adds two new modes: Trick Mode …
