In nearly every city builder, your task is to create sprawling empires of soaring structures and miles of roads. As a result, the natural environment you’re building upon sometimes doesn’t have much impact beyond providing resources for your megalopolis. Publisher Devolver recently unveiled a new game that turns that core …
Read More »Razer Is Helping Make A Robot To Tackle Garbage In The Ocean
Today is World Oceans Day, a holiday meant to raise awareness for ocean conservation causes and the threats that the marine ecosystems currently face. In recognition of the day, Razer announced that it is working on a solar-powered robot designed to help clean up the huge amount of plastic waste …
Read More »Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Devs Praise Not Having To Crunch
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart reviews went live today, and it’s a critical success. But whereas some big-budget hits end up requiring employees to work long stretches of excessive overtime–called “crunch”–developers from Insomniac are saying that they were able to generally maintain a healthy workload of normal, 40-hour weeks. While …
Read More »Ahead Of Ratchet And Clank Launch, Insomniac Appears To Be Teasing Something About Sunset Overdrive
Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart launches later this week, yet developer Insomniac is referencing one of its old games strangely frequently. Over the past week, the studio has called out Sunset Overdrive in its promotional materials for Ratchet and Clank at least three times, seemingly indicating that it’s teasing… something. …
Read More »The Baltimore Ravens Are Launching An Esports League And Tournament Series
Over the last few years, sports teams have taken an increasing interest in esports, and many have created or bought esports teams. Today, the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens have announced its own esports initiative, called the Ravens Gaming League. According to a press release, the Ravens Gaming League sounds like a …
Read More »Concrete Genie Dev Is Making PS5 Title In Collaboration With Sony Pictures
Between Entwined and Concrete Genie, PixelOpus has made a name for itself creating stylish, colorful, and painterly games. It appears that the studio is doubling down on these attributes with its next project, as PixelOpus has announced that it is working on a PS5 game in collaboration with Sony Pictures …
Read More »Forza Motorsport Dev Gives Update On Playtests
We still know very little about Forza Motorsport, the official name of the eighth installment in the mainline Forza series, but developer Turn 10 is steadily moving forward with testing its gameplay. A beta test just finished up recently, and today the studio announced that another one will be coming …
Read More »Days Gone Dev Bend Studio Is Working On A New IP
Bend Studio, the developer behind PlayStation-exclusive zombie-killing game Days Gone, is working on a new IP–and it sounds like it’s going to be another open-world game. In an interview on the PlayStation Blog, Head of PlayStation Studios Hermen Hulst gave an overview of what all of Sony’s first-party developers are …
Read More »Mass Effect 3 Dev Exposes Never-Discovered Easter Egg
Mass Effect: Legendary Edition just released back in May, and the sci-fi series has been garnering a lot of renewed attention, including from developers who worked on the original trilogy. For example, a designer who worked on Mass Effect 3 recently unveiled an Easter egg that he put in the …
Read More »Tesla's New In-Car Gaming PC Is Built On AMD
New versions of Tesla’s Model X and Model S vehicles are coming soon, and they’ll launch with an overhauled infotainment system. In contrast to most in-car systems, Tesla’s is basically just a PC–and the new one will be powered by AMD technology. At its Computex 2021 speech, AMD announced that …
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