30 years ago Toy Story chronicled a generational conflict between an old-timey pull-string doll and a fancy new one with buttons. The two toys learned to get along. This week a trailer for Toy Story 5 arrived showing both toys enacting a Butlerian Jihad against tablets. While I agree on…

In a recent interview, Overwatch associate game director Alec Dawson confirmed that new hero Jetpack Cat is going to be receiving some substantial nerfs in the coming weeks. The next round of Overwatch nerfs will be focused around two specific Jetpack Cat perks, ones that arguably make her more of…

Tencent-backed TiMi Montreal is shutting down less than five years after opening and without ever shipping a game. It appears to be the latest casualty of Chinese publishers pulling back on investment in North American studios. As first reported by Game File, news of the closure began to trickle out…

Todd Howard has revealed that Fallout 76 is the release he is the most proud of across his long career in game development, eclipsing the likes of Oblivion, Skyrim, and Fallout 3 and 4. Howard explained his reasons for choosing Fallout 76 above other titles which feel like more obvious…

One half of Mewgenics’ development team, Tyler Glaiel, has revealed an approximate window for when players can expect the first DLC to arrive in the roguelike game. Glaiel is unable to commit to an exact date for Mewgenics’ new content, as it’s still quite far away at this point. After…

Every game in The Legend of Zelda series is defined, in part, by its aesthetics, the visual design choices coalescing every element into one cohesive vision. Even during the Hylian hero’s original 8-bit journey, strong art direction transformed simple sprites into sprawling labyrinths, mysterious woods, and terrible foes in the…