It’s been over two years since Homeworld 3 was first announced, and things had gotten so quiet on the publicity front that earlier this year I wrote a whole blog about footage of a single ship firing a weapon.Read more…
Dune: Spice Wars Is A New Real-Time PC Game
Dune has a long history of very good strategy games, dating all the way back to 1992 when we got not one but two all-time greats based on the license. It’s been a while between then and now—with a little Dune 2000 in the meantime—but we’re now heading …
Space Marine II Announced, Ten Years After The Original
I know, there are too many Warhammer games, and this is only adding to the list, but there are exceptions to my opposition, and this is definitely one of them.Read more…
Discord Server Gets Over 1,000,000 Members For The First Time Ever
For the first time ever, a Discord server has attracted over one million members, with the platform’s official Snowsgiving 2021 hitting the milestone earlier today.Read more…
Sandbox Game Removed From Steam After Allegations Of Code Theft
Myth of Empires, a game that has only just been released, has now been delisted from Steam after the team behind Ark: Survival Evolved accused its creators of stealing source code.Read more…
Ubisoft’s NFT Announcement Has Been Intensely Disliked
As we reported yesterday, Ubisoft is getting right into the business of NFTs, a space that is both an environmental catastrophe and an enormous pump-and-dump scam. And because that’s a shitty space to be in, people have been quick to let the company kn…
Indie Game Says Kalashnikov Stole Their Weapon Design, Turned It Into A Real Shotgun
Ward B, the developers of upcoming FPS Oceanic, have accused Russian arms manufacturer Kalashnikov of outright stealing one of their weapon designs for a new shotgun that’s being sold commercially.Read more…
Streamer Has Said ‘Mario’ 345,000 Times Over The Last Few Days
If you have ever wanted to hear a word repeated so many times that it loses all meaning to you (semantic satiation, it’s a real thing), then please enjoy this stream of a man who has committed himself to saying the word “Mario” over half a million time…
Australian Video Games Industry Is Getting Its Own Union
Game Workers Unite Australia, a body that had previously been an advisory and support organisation, announced today that early next year it will be transitioning to becoming a full-blown union.Read more…
The Art Of Dune
I finally got to see Dune over the weekend (its release was delayed in Australia due to pandemic lockdowns), and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since. Read more…