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Randy Pitchford says the Borderlands film would’ve sucked a whole lot more if he’d directed it: ‘It would have been way worse’

by admin | Sep 2, 2025 | Video Games

“It could always be worse” is something I try to keep in mind as I lurch and stumble through this extended Gong Show called life: As bad as any given situation is, there’s almost always room for it to slide even further down into the cosmic crap...

AI chatbots can be manipulated into breaking their own rules with simple debate tactics like telling them that an authority figure made the request

by admin | Sep 1, 2025 | Video Games

Content warning: This article includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts, help is available from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (US), Crisis Services Canada (CA), Samaritans (UK), Lifeline (AUS), and other...

Vampire Survivors’ free-roaming online mode is available to play in beta now, and there’s an official boardgame coming too

by admin | Aug 31, 2025 | Video Games

Vampire Survivors’ long-anticipated online mode is finally here, sort of. Developer Poncle announced at the end of this week that online multiplayer has been implemented in the game’s beta branch.Vampire Survivors has of course had multiplayer...

Chill simulation strategy game Plan B: Terraform has hit 1.0

by admin | Aug 30, 2025 | Video Games

Sometimes you don’t want to go too hard, you just want a nice little game where you transform a million hexagons of barren oblate spheroid into a lush new home for humankind with an atmosphere, plants, and animals. Is that too much to ask? It’s not, it...

Hollow Knight’s creators didn’t want to be constrained by the ‘metroidvania’ label, but they accidentally set a standard that every game since—even Silksong—has to reckon with

by admin | Aug 29, 2025 | Video Games

In a 2017 interview about the making of Hollow Knight’s map, designer William Pellen told me that Team Cherry “shied away completely” from describing the game as a metroidvania. Artist Ari Gibson added that they didn’t want to “let a...
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