Surely this will work this time. Unwavering—for now—in Microsoft’s headlong rush into AI and generative technology, CEO Satya Nadella has turned to the time-honored tradition of blogging to defend AI’s aggressive, profit-driven rollout. In the process, he radiates strong “too big to fail” energy, arguing that it’s time to move beyond the so-called slop controversy, … Read more

There’s no shortage of frightening moments in Final Fantasy 7, and not all of them involve the literal vampire you can recruit. Much of the game’s horror comes courtesy of Sephiroth, and according to one of the original producers, a particular cutscene with Jenova ranks as the scariest. On X/Twitter, Japanese developers shared some of … Read more

Before Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 went on to dominate The Game Awards and secure multiple Game of the Year wins, the team at Sandfall Interactive was setting far more modest expectations for its critical reception. Despite becoming one of the highest-rated games of 2025, the developers initially believed the game would land somewhere in the … Read more

Former Rockstar technical director Obbe Vermeij has revealed that he was not particularly fond of Grand Theft Auto 4 when it launched, largely because the development team had to make significant compromises to gameplay. For many fans, GTA: San Andreas remains the standout entry in the series. Its enormous scope and experimental mission design pushed … Read more

There is a certain magic in revisiting the history of video game saves, a nostalgia that stretches far beyond the technicalities of bytes and memory cells. For modern gamers, saving progress is a background task, seamless, automatic, and often invisible. Yet for those who grew up with retro consoles, saving a game was an intimate … Read more