Archive - Game File

The best new PC game demos I played from Steam Next Fest

A strategic road trip, a railroad battler, a Pokémon riff on Vampire Survivors, and more

Oct 18 •

A top game streamer’s apology hits some familiar (and unfamiliar) notes

“I think I’ve been slowly devolving into the most mean-spirited… rude, nasty, just callous psychopathic version of myself.”

Oct 17 •

It's a tricky time for Destiny to come to cell phones

Plus: One of Bungie's favorite words is caught up in a new trademark dispute

Oct 15 •

My chat with Jason Schreier, who just wrote the book on Blizzard

The "Play Nice" author and I covered a ton. And I got him to play a brief game.

Oct 11 •

Nintendo's new $100 clock is the welcome return of weird Nintendo

Alarmo isn't what I was looking for, and the fine print suggests it probably wouldn't work for me. But I'm glad it's happening.

Oct 10 •

Mario's last big Switch adventure?

Mario & Luigi Brothership, Nintendo's third Mario role-playing game in a year makes a good first impression

Oct 10 •

Paradox Interactive's leaders think you deserve an explanation

After a run of bad news, two of the top execs of one of the world's premier strategy game studios want to talk about went wrong.

Oct 8 •

In our house, the new Zelda is a great multiplayer game

Echoes of Wisdom might be the best Zelda game for group strategists

Oct 4 •

An ambitious competitor to The Sims is in the works, for some personal reasons

The upcoming life sim inZoi has fancy graphics, lots of cats and a lead developer who recently turned 50.

Oct 3 •

Valve tells judge, not the public, why it dropped Steam’s forced arbitration clause

Court filing explains that it was deemed “unenforceable”

Oct 1 •

Ubisoft in crisis mode (again)

Ubisoft says "an important problem of perception... has been affecting the company’s performance.”

Oct 1 •

September 2024

How Astro Bot's iconic PlayStation bots were made

Team Asobi on how the picked them, how fast they can make a bot and why some expected characters aren't in there. Plus: Some concept sketches.

Sep 27 •

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