No Man’s Sky has been out for almost eight years now, but players have never been able to feel truly alone within its massive star systems. That’s set to change with the game’s recent update, Expedition 13: Adrift, which radically refocuses the game at a basic level. As explained in …

Recently, an interview with Naughty Dog’s co-president (and The Last Of Us co-creator) Neil Druckmann made waves on social media, with some of Druckmann’s apparent comments about AI (and other topics) drawing polarized reactions. Now, Sony has removed the interview entirely, stating that the company found “several significant errors and …

Atari finally won the oldest console war of all recently–even though most of us thought it ended decades ago. The company announced that it bought the Intellivision brand, best-known for being one of its main competitors in the earliest era of home consoles in the late ’70s and early ’80s. …

Super Smash Bros. players are well-known for their strong opinions on character balance, and it seems that Masahiro Sakurai is no different. In a recent video on game design, Sakurai says that trying to make everything “fair” will produce a less interesting game. Or, as he puts it: “Average and …

The new Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree story trailer dropped recently, and we have three lore experts on tap to discuss it. In the below video, Dave Klein, Lucy James, and Tamoor Hussain break down all the secrets sown throughout the three-minute trailer, and what questions this DLC could …

The Sims movie has been in development hell for years, but it seems like production may finally begin soon. Amazon MGM is officially making the film with the production company LuckyChap Entertainment, and with Barbie’s Margot Robbie producing and Loki director Kate Herron set to direct. We first got word …

AI is all the rage these days, and it seems that Microsoft is adding its take on the technology to some of its Xbox and PC games. At the company’s recent Surface and AI event, it showed off its new Copilot AI, which is Microsoft’s unique twist on what we’ve …

Ubisoft’s upcoming tactical shooter XDefiant is set to launch this week, and the publisher detailed the game’s “in-game purchase philosophy” in a recent blog post. Most notably, the post says that XDefiant will allow players to unlock all purchasable “gameplay-impacting” content through challenges–or, as Ubisoft puts it, the game will …

Recently, Ubisoft canceled its upcoming free-to-play shooter, The Division Heartland, stating that it “redeployed resources” to other games like XDefiant and Rainbow Six Siege. Now, a developer who says he worked on an early version of Heartland says that it started off as a “low-risk” battle royale mode for The …

Apple recently changed App Store guidelines to allow retro-gaming emulators to be downloaded on iOS, and that’s led to a flood of such apps on the storefront. Now, the popular PSP emulator PPSSPP is sizzling the sales charts, as is the multi-system RetroArch. RetroArch is one of the biggest names …