“Breaking news,” the official Sonic the Hedgehog account announced on June 23. “The Chaos Emeralds have destabilized and are scattering across the U.S. We need your help to recover them before Dr. Eggman finds them so we can power Club Chaos this Fall.” The message was part of an urgent…

It’s odd how rare it is to hear an Australian accent in a video game. In point-and-click adventure The Drifter, however, you’ll hear a lot of them, along with some superb Aussie vernacular. The Drifter is a lengthy tale of an itinerant man who, on discovering he cannot die, becomes…

Bungie is laying off “most” of the Destiny 2 team after the shooter MMO’s final update earlier this month. According to a statement from the PlayStation-owned studio, the company determined the game “fell short of expectations these past several years,” and is now restructuring its workforce as its next projects…

Batman and the Joker love each other. This is not some controversial statement born out of my sicko shipper brain. It’s a well-established philosophy supported by decades of comics, movies, and animated television shows that depict the pair as being as fundamental to each other as gravity is to mass.…

According to several reports on social media sites, the “LGBTQ+” tag has been banned on Steam in China. While Valve has yet to issue an official statement or confirm users’ reports, those who have attempted to access games with the LGBTQ+ tag in China have reportedly been issued an error…

The plague of AI has been especially damaging among voice actors, whose performances are far too easily emulated by increasingly convincing AI software. After an 11-month strike over the issue, the contentious situation continues to be a serious problem in the industry, and it’s now been revealed that Peppa Pig owner…