On a clear spring evening in Michigan, the stars aligned — just not in the way Upfront Ventures partner Nick Kim expected. He’d just led a $9.5 million seed round for OurSky, a software platform for space observational data, and was eager to see what its telescope partner PlaneWave Instruments could do. But when they
(Image credit: Electronic Arts) As part of the 25th anniversary of The Sims, the New York Times spoke to the original game’s lead designer Will Wright, who gave some insight into how its AI was programmed. Part of the inspiration came from an unlikely source: his house burning down in 1991. It was nothing like
(Image credit: BioWare, Electronic Arts) Dragon Age: The Veilguard had a strong launch and solid reviews, but it ultimately fell significantly short of EA’s sales expectations, leading to a dramatic downsizing of BioWare. As expected, the company addressed the question of what went wrong during today’s quarterly financial call, and it sounds like CEO Andrew
While Netflix seemingly led the way for other streaming networks to create compelling original programming, Hulu actually beat them all to the punch. In 2011, a year before Netflix’s Lilyhammer and two years before the arrival of House of Cards, the burgeoning streamer premiered The Morning After, a pop-culture-focused news show that ran for 800
During a showcase livestream today, Capcom followed up a brief look at its upcoming reboot Onimusha: Way of the Sword with a surprise announcement: a remaster of PlayStation 2 classic Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny, coming to consoles and PC sometime this year. It’s about time. We were happy to see Capcom dust off the first
What is Disco Elysium about? A lot of things, I suppose. It’s about failure, about loss, about redemption, about being a mess of ungovernable nerves and hormones, and it’s about communism—a struggle against a drab, alienating, and interminable now we’ve all inhabited since, oh, the ’80s at least. It’s also, under its current stewards at
Path of Exile dev Grinding Gear Games bit off more than it could chew when it promised to maintain Path of Exile just like it had always done, even while it was dealing with the Path of Exile 2 launch. But reality is a killjoy and the studio has been reassessing things, resulting in a
We’ve got a brand new hint for today’s Wordle ready to go, able to point your puzzle solving towards Tuesday’s winning word without spoiling all of your fun. Go wild with it; after all, the answer to the February 4 (1326) game’s here to save you if you need it. However you want to play
First reported by Eurogamer, a photo reportedly taken from production on the Fallout show’s second season reveals the return of a dear old friend from Fallout: New Vegas: The town of Novac’s Dinky the T-Rex, the giant dinosaur statue central to one of the game’s best companions and his first quest. Spoilers for Fallout season
(Image credit: Koei Tecmo) Game Pass means different things to different people: a rich repository of indie games, a place to play Microsoft’s AAA games on Day One, and a covert way to mainline Call of Duty into our bloodstreams. One moment you’re whip-cracking fascists in the new Indiana Jones, the next you’re rolling back