by admin | Mar 13, 2026 | Video Games
In a talk at the Game Developers Conference, Obsidian senior systems designer Robert Donovan spoke about dialing in the difficulty of The Outer Worlds 2—a great game you ought to play—but one I found to have a particularly noticable reverse difficulty curve.Instead...
by admin | Mar 12, 2026 | Video Games
Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare, known as Tony to friends, has died at the age of 92. One of the greatest programmers in the early history of computing, he invented the Quicksort algorithm after a bet with his boss, later devised Hoare logic (a system for...
by admin | Mar 11, 2026 | Video Games
Real item crafting is finally coming to Diablo 4. I say “real” because the way you can modify items right now is so simplistic compared to what’s on the way in the Lord of Hatred expansion next month. The two developers I spoke to while visiting...
by admin | Mar 10, 2026 | Video Games
By just about any metric, Dispatch was a wild success. After launching at the tail end of October 2025, it sold more than 3 million copies before the year’s end, and at time of writing 97% of its over 165,000 reviews on Steam are positive. But in a GDC talk...
by admin | Mar 9, 2026 | Video Games
You can take the Bungie out of Halo, but it’ll take more than a 16 years-past Microsoft breakup to take the Halo out of Bungie. The presence of the seminal FPS can be felt throughout much of Bungie’s new extraction shooter, Marathon, in ways both subtle...
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