PAX Rising has always been the heart of PAX East — the place where future cult classics, breakout indies, and unexpected gems first step into the spotlight. This year’s lineup was stacked with creativity, nostalgia, and bold ideas, and the crowd energy around these booths made it clear which games were resonating most with players….
Epic Games recently made a major announcement, and it landed with real impact. The company said it would lay off more than a thousand employees following a drop in player engagement across its titles, including its biggest success, Fortnite. What started as a corporate update quickly became something more human, as affected workers took to…
Battle Gem Ponies (BGP), a game born of an eager-eyed dreamer, Tony Yotes. Described in Dec 2014 as a competitive turn-based RPG adventure game, your partners are super-powered ponies featuring a gemstone on their chest. Highlights over 10 years of development that resulted in Sept 2, 2024, seeing its first Arrival Story public launch. The…
Red Dead Redemption 2 has no business hosting a full-blown fantasy epic, yet here a modder named Blurbs goes and builds one anyway. This mad lad somehow crammed swords, sorcery, Scarlet Rot, and that dreaded death screen into Rockstar’s cowboy simulator. The result looks like a fever dream cooked up by someone who spent way…
Crimson Desert finally sits in the hands of reviewers, and the gaming world cannot stop buzzing about what Pearl Abyss has cooked up. Players are just hours away from jumping into this massive RPG, and the early reactions suggest something special might be brewing. A former Rockstar Games developer, someone who worked on Grand Theft…
Marathon throws a curveball at the competitive gaming scene with its new ranked system. Most shooters follow a simple formula: win the match, gain points. But Marathon flips that script entirely because it operates as an extraction shooter, a genre where victory has never been a simple black-and-white affair. How exactly does a developer build…