Styx: Blades of Greed Demo Available Now

Styx: Blades of Greed Demo Available Now

If you’ve been waiting to see what Styx has been up to, there’s good news. NACON and Cyanide Studio have dropped a free demo for Styx: Blades of Greed on Steam, giving players an early look at the goblin’s next stealth-heavy adventure. The demo is available for a...
Fallout Titles See Sales Boost Following Season 2 Premiere

Fallout Titles See Sales Boost Following Season 2 Premiere

The Fallout franchise saw a big holiday boost after season two of Amazon’s Fallout series premiered. Video Game Insights reported noticeable jumps in both sales and player activity across Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox. Fallout 4 led the surge, selling over 12,000 copies on December 29 and later hitting...
Ubisoft Announces More Layoffs

Ubisoft Announces More Layoffs

According to IGN, Ubisoft is cutting 55 jobs across its Swedish studios, Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft Stockholm, after deciding that more reductions were needed following a review of future plans. This comes after a voluntary redundancy program earlier in 2025, which reduced some staff but not enough. The...
Alexey Pajitnov and Tetris; Love at First Sight

Alexey Pajitnov and Tetris; Love at First Sight

In 1985, Alexey Pajitnov was hard at work at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre in Moscow, when he had an idea for a game that would put his favorite puzzle game, Pentonimo, on the computer screen. In what ultimately became Tetris, started out as a basic tech demo, but...
Vince Zampella’s Frustration with EA

Vince Zampella’s Frustration with EA

In a 2025 interview with GQ, renowned game developer Vince Zampella discussed a range of topics, but none more harshly than EA, whom he exited from and later founded Infinity Ward. While Zampella famously has created or worked on the two largest first-person war games in gaming history...
Reggie Fils-Aime on the Silent Console War

Reggie Fils-Aime on the Silent Console War

In an interview with The Game Business, Retired President of Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aime covered a variety of topics, including the validity of the "console wars." He stated that while the console wars are over in such that direct competition is no longer in the forefront of...
This Day in Gaming History: Shenmue Hits Japan

This Day in Gaming History: Shenmue Hits Japan

On December 29, 1999—26 years ago today—Sega released Shenmue in Japan for the Dreamcast, a groundbreaking open-world action-adventure directed by Yu Suzuki. Born from a 1993 concept that evolved through RPG iterations and impressed Steven Spielberg, the game boasted a massive $47–70 million budget and over 300 developers....
Interview: Arcade Legend Richie Knucklez

Interview: Arcade Legend Richie Knucklez

Richie Knucklez is a complex guy. First and foremost he's a husband and father, but behind that he's also a talented musician who's toured the nation and a gamer with multiple world records. he's also a guy with big ideas and even bigger determination. Richie took what could...
Game Industry Icon Vince Zampella Has Passed Away

Game Industry Icon Vince Zampella Has Passed Away

Vince Zampella, Co-Founder of Infinity Ward and Respawn Entertainment, as well as one of the minds behind many series including Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Titanfall, Star Wars Jedi, and Battlefield 6 has tragically passed away as the result of injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident...