Earlier this month, Junghun Lee – CEO of Nexon, the parent company behind current live-service shooter du jour Arc Raiders – made waves in the game development community with a straightforward statement. “It’s important to assume that every game company is now using AI,” he explained. Indie developers were quick to loudly and vociferously call […]
Earlier this year, it looked like time was up for ZRX: Zombies, Run!, a popular fitness app that mixed couch-to-5K plans with postapocalyptic audio storytelling. Now, cocreator and author Naomi Alderman has announced that she’s bought back the franchise from the brink. Zombies, Run! was first founded in 2012 with about 10 million users worldwide. […]
Roblox CEO Dave Baszuki joined the Hard Fork podcast to discuss the gaming platform’s new age verification feature — but he seemed to get frustrated at the number of questions focused on child safety.
Nintendo has made some of the most iconic video games of all time, but building a library of the standouts can quickly become expensive, especially given that many titles don’t often go on sale at a significant discount. The good news is that Nintendo is already running a holiday sale in the run-up to Black […]
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 106, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, Happy Thanksgiving Week, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about prediction markets and Hilary Duff and Matt Belloni and yeast, […]
It took me a long time to become even halfway decent at Forestrike. The martial arts action game, from Olija developer Skeleton Crew, has a unique twist in that it lets you see what will happen in most battles and then practice your strategy accordingly. It turns the act of combat into a type of […]
Microsoft is bringing the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE), which adds a console-like UI while navigating through your game library on a PC with a controller, to laptops, desktops, and tablets. FSE launched with the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X, and it has so far only been available on PC handhelds. The expansion to […]
Hear me out: Kirby Air Riders isn’t a racing game, it’s an art tool with a racing game tacked on. The game, out now for the Nintendo Switch 2, is the follow-up to the quirky Kirby-flavored kart racer released in 2003 on the GameCube. It features Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai’s round, pink, utterly charming […]
Deals on Sony’s PlayStation 5 are much more common than those on its PlayStation Portal, the handheld that can remotely stream games from the console via Wi-Fi. But for Black Friday, the Portal just got its first major discount to around $178.99 ($21 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. Additionally, you can save up […]
Analogue has announced its reimagined and upgraded 4K version of the Nintendo 64, the Analogue 3D, is being restocked and will be available again for preorder starting at 8 AM PT/11 AM ET on Monday, November 24th. That’s good news for those of us who missed out on the initial preorders that quickly sold out, […]