Last week, GameStop abruptly shut down its long-running gaming magazine, Game Informer. The staff was blindsided by the news when they got to work on Friday morning—all 13 employees were laid off on the spot, and the next magazine issue, which was nearly complete, will not be finished.

GameStop announced the shutdown on the official Game Informer X account with a goodbye statement thanking readers for being a part of its “epic quest.” Game Informer staff suggested they had nothing to do with the brief, cringey statement that reads like ChatGPT output. Soon after, they were alarmed to find that the entire Game Informer website had disappeared: years and years of articles had been replaced with the same GameStop statement.

This morning, the Game Informer X account went active again. This time, a former Game Informer staffer seemingly took the reins one last time to share a proper farewell:

“Our 33-year legacy deserves a genuine goodbye, written by a former Game…

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Jagged Alliance 3, the well-received sequel to the classic mercenary tactics games, infiltrated enemy lines to extract a big new update this week. Going by the unusual alias “Larry”, patch 1.5 added several new ways to explore and expand your adventures in the politically unstable nation of Grand Chien.

The biggest of these new features are the modding tools. These let players edit maps, create new quests, put together whole new campaigns, and more. Developer Haemimont games cites an example of what “more” looks like over on its Facebook page in its first Mod Spotlight post. This highlights a mod called UnpredictableBattle, which randomises enemy stats, perks, weapons, and armour. Further example mods are included in the update itself, so you can get an overview of what the tools can do.

Alongside mod support, Larry also adds 10 new “game rules” that let you adjust the game’s parameters in different ways. “Hard Lessons”, for example, decreases the speed mercs level up, w…

In a conversation with PCG global editor-in-chief Phil Savage at Gamescom, MachineGames developers went into more detail about how Indiana Jones and the Great Circle builds on their prior games like the new Wolfensteins and Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay. Their emphasis on rollicking, scrappy improvisation has me way more excited than I was before for this adventure.

“Indiana Jones, he’s not a gunslinger, right? He doesn’t go guns blazing into situations,” said Jens Andersson, design director at MachineGames. “So it could never be a shooter, should never be a shooter. But hand to hand combat, that makes total sense.”

That’s where the Riddick connection comes in: along with MachineGames’ founders, Andersson (who joined on in 2022) worked on the shockingly excellent side adventure for Vin Diesel’s buff sci-fi Hannibal Lecter, which has some of the best first person melee combat to grace a game. That’s a strong pedigree, but also not where the story ends, ei…

Who has the time for an entire StarCraft match these days? Not me—I’ve got thought-provoking videogame articles to write—and I’m willing to bet not you either. So what if I told you that developer Uncapped Games has crammed all that competition, strategy, and furious clicking down into a game you can play in 10 minutes? 

Shown today the PC Gaming Show 2024, Battle Aces has you pumping out little robot soldiers within seconds, and depending on how you want to spend your starting resources, you can even expand to a second base right as the game starts. Your goal, naturally, is to destroy your opponent’s bases—but if neither of you manages that within the 10 minute time limit, whoever has the highest score is the winner.

Gameplay is super fast-paced: units dash around the map, and the right army can take down a base in a handful of seconds. Some of the strategy happens before the match, as you choose which units you want to bring in, but for the most …

Overwatch 1’s transition to Overwatch 2 has been anything but graceful for longtime fans. Players who’d grown accustomed to a steady drip of free heroes and loot boxes over six years felt betrayed by Blizzard’s stingier free-to-play model—heroes were locked behind the battle pass, free loot boxes were no more, and legendary skins that’d been around for years ballooned in price overnight. At the same time, Blizzard retired the free Overwatch Credits currency, eliminating one of the only paths to earn cosmetics just for playing the game.

After months of negative feedback about Overwatch 2’s underwhelming battle passes and prohibitively expensive microtransactions, Blizzard is budging again. Overwatch Credits (previously retitled to Legacy Credits) are making a return in season 3 as a free reward on the battle pass. Players on the free track can earn up to 1,500 credits by completing the pass, while those on the premium track earn an additional 500.

To coincide with t…

Call of Duty has a new shortcut for mouse and keyboard users trying to activate aim assist: Alt + F4. According to a tweet posted to the official Call of Duty Updates Twitter account Tuesday, the game has buffed up its security systems to automatically kill your game—as in MW3.exe itself—if it catches you using a tool to turn on the game’s assist while using a mouse. The new measure works across Modern Warfare 2, 3, and Warzone.

“Our security detection systems now target players using tools to activate aim assist while using a mouse and keyboard,” reads the tweet, “The Call of Duty application will close if detected.” It gets worse if you keep trying it: “Repeated use of these tools may lead to further account action,” says COD Updates.

Aim assist is, of course, a tricky topic in multiplayer shooters. Time was, having a mouse in your hand was a straightforward advantage over anyone foolish enough to use a gamepad in FPSes of yore, but the implementation of te…

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Metro: Last Light, the intensely atmospheric shooter about life above and below ground in badly-nuked Moscow, developer 4A Games is making it free for the week on Steam.

Metro: Last Light is incredibly grim. One of the most interesting (and honestly surprising) things about the game is that it establishes the “bad ending” of its predecessor, Metro 2033, as canon—because that’s how it goes in a Russian post-apocalypse. (And believe me, it was a bad ending.) But all that relentless darkness works remarkably well: The game world lacks the jokiness and knowing irony of Bethesda’s Fallout games, but feels much more human and filled with characters rather than caricatures.

Fair enough to say that it’s not for everyone, but at this price, it’s a perfect time to find out if it’s for you. Note that this is the Complete Edition, which includes various bonus content packs, but not the newer Last Light Redux—although that’s on sale fo…

John Hanke—CEO of Niantic Inc.—announced a new round of layoffs in a company email, which was then posted on the official Niantic website yesterday.

“I have made the decision to narrow our focus for mobile game investments, concentrating on first party games that most strongly embody our core values of location and local social communities,” wrote John Hanke, shortly before laying off one fourth of the company. “This means we are laying off around 230 Niantics.”

As for the reasons why, Hanke writes: “The answer is straightforward – we have allowed our expenses to grow faster than revenue,” citing a surge of revenue during the Covid-19 pandemic which prompted them to “pursue growth more aggressively.” 

The decline of that revenue to pre-pandemic levels is mainly because its “new projects in games and platform have not delivered revenues commensurate with those investments,” said Hanke.

Those stabs at new projects have included Harry Pott…