Interior, my home office. Daniel Molloy, the Vampire Armand, Louis de Pointe du Lac, Lestat de Lioncourt, and their vampire daughter Claudia de Lioncourt de Pointe du Lac crowd around my couch as The Blood of Dawnwalker loads for the first time. They are captivated by some parts of the…

Let’s just get this out of the way right at the beginning. Yes, EA and Bit Reactor’s new tactical Star Wars game, Star Wars Zero Company, plays and looks a lot like a modern XCOM game. It’s impossible to ignore the similarities, and considering the studio was founded by XCOM…

There’s been a lot of debate among players during Xbox’s big reset, which includes 3,200 layoffs, about whose fault it is and about the failure of Game Pass. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has framed it as an unfortunate necessity amid dwindling profits. Others have pointed out that for years Xbox’s…

2026 has already been a pretty great year for open-world RPGs, with several promising upcoming titles also scheduled for the fall season. From long-awaited sequels and free-to-play releases to faithful remakes and brand-new IPs with potentially bright futures, fans of the genre already have their hands pretty full. Some might…

I love roguelikes, simply for the fact that I find their risk-reward loop immensely satisfying. However, I haven’t played too many deckbuilding roguelikes, not because they don’t interest me, but because my backlog generally has me drifting toward something else instead. And yet, after spending over an hour with Shroom…

Earlier this summer, Double Fine was at risk of being closed. Now it’s independent again and plowing forward with a $400,000 Kickstarter for its next game jam. If studio founder Tim Schafer is tired of the fight, he’s not showing it. He opened up about leaving Xbox and laid out…