The Water In This 2002 Surfing Game Is Blowing People’s Minds

Kelly Slater’s Pro Surfer is going viral online over 20 years after it launched because a lot of people are impressed and blown away by the game’s water tech. It’s a great example of how sometimes you don’t need 4K ray-traced hyper-realistic visuals. All you need is a cool-looking wave that runs at 60FPS. On…

A Manor Lords update has just fixed its “degraded” systems

Four months of Manor Lords technical overhauls have just moved across from the beta branch to the live build, bringing core under-the-hood improvements to the medieval city-building game. Developer Slavic Magic recently announced it was putting some of its planned content drops and its trade rework on pause briefly, in order to prioritize “taking a…

Xbox CEO Joins Fed’s Task Force To Help With Price Stability And Employment After She Raised Xbox Prices And Laid Of Staff

The United States central bank, the Federal Reserve, has announced new task forces to “advance the conduct of monetary policy,” and its board has chosen Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to help guide one task force pertaining to AI, as part of a wider effort to help create jobs and keep prices stable. The new Productivity…

Adventures Of Elliot Patch Lets You Remove The Incessant Voice Support

Image: Nintendo Life Square Enix has just released a new patch for The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales on Steam, with a promise to bring it to consoles in the near future. There isn’t a great deal to go through here, but one of the key improvements includes a new option to disable the…

Steam Now Tells You Which Games Run Well On A Steam Machine

Since the launch of the Steam Machine a couple of weeks ago, Steam’s store has been oddly reluctant to tell you which games are tested and verified as fully compatible with Valve’s little PC box. But overnight, as spotted by Rock Paper Shotgun, Valve has updated the store with that really rather vital information. And yes, Assassin’s…

Id Software founder John Carmack mourns layoffs: “Games need to succeed, not just be beloved”

“I have been trying to find something meaningful to say about the Id Software layoffs.” It’s a sentiment all of us share, but a particularly strong one for its Co-founder John Carmack. A WARN notice filed in Texas states that 136 jobs are being cut at the Doom developer, reportedly more than half of its…

Indie developer says Steam did them a solid by fixing their unbootable game to beat the Next Fest deadline

Making a game is hard, or so I’ve been told by those brave enough to give it a go. Mistakes happen, and sometimes your game just doesn’t work. That’s what happened to the developer behind Red Flag, a social deduction game about convincing your friends you’re fit to survive the apocalypse in a bunker with…

Xbox’s Halo and Fallout strategy shows signs of following Marvel

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma’s big company reset came with a promise to re-invest resources into ventures that would boost Xbox revenue — alongside thousands of layoffs. Previous investments in award-winning games didn’t pay off, despite Xbox wanting culturally relevant, award-winning games. So now it’s time for more of the things Xbox players love. It’s a…

Popular 2011 PlayStation 3 Action Game Losing Online Support

One of the best PlayStation 3 exclusive action adventure games is losing online support after 15 years, Sony has announced. Sucker Punch Productions’ Infamous 2 is a single-player game, but includes a user-generated content (UGC) feature that’ll cease to exist after August 2026. PlayStation pulling the plug on Infamous 2 online features, PS3 trophies affected…

18 Extraordinary Cosplay Fits Out Of Anime Con DoKomi 2026

Hey, you! No, not you…yeah, you! We’ve got the cosplay pictures you were asking about! You know, the ones from DoKomi, the Dusseldorf-based anime convention. No, you were pestering us about them last week, remember? Anyway, whatever, they’re really awesome, you should take a look. As ever, these photos and the video come courtesy of…