Why Fishing Keeps Showing Up as a Game Design Theme Across Every Platform
Fishing is one of the strangest success stories in game design. The actual activity involves long periods of waiting punctuated by brief moments of action, which is close to the opposite of what most game designers try to engineer. And yet fishing has become one of the most consistently recurring themes in gaming, showing up […]
Furyball: Rogue Revenge Enters Steam Early Access
Furyball: Rogue Revenge, the fast, violent and irreverent action roguelite from independent studio Rebound, launches in Early Access on PC via Steam. Watch the launch trailer, scored with a new track by French Touch producer The Toxic Avenger. The first rogue “Beat’em Ball”: a fast-paced action roguelite where your only weapon is a bouncing bullet […]
The Game Client Is No Longer the Whole Game
Open a complicated game in 2026, and there is a fair chance another screen will appear beside it. A phone holds a build guide while the PC runs the game. Steam Community Guides sit one overlay away. Discord answers the question the tutorial skipped. Players have always exchanged knowledge, but modern game systems give them […]
Revised Core Rules for The One Ring and The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying 5E Launches
From the halls of Rohan to the heights of Minas Tirith, Free League Publishing is bringing new adventures to the tabletop with today’s BackerKit campaign for The One Ring and The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying 5E, based on the books of J.R.R. Tolkien. The campaign, which was funded within minutes after launch, features six […]
Are Untradeable Rewards Worth It in FC 27 Ultimate Team? A Practical Squad-Building Test
Untradeable rewards can be some of the most tempting options in FC 27 Ultimate Team. An SBC may offer an exciting player or a useful upgrade, but completing it often means committing coins, cards, and other resources that cannot be recovered. That makes the real question less about whether the reward looks good and more […]
How to Create a Dungeons and Dragons Campaign: 2026 Guide
How do you actually start building a D&D campaign? Pick one small setting, run a proper Session Zero, and design a single clear threat before writing any deep lore. That’s it – everything else builds on those three decisions. D&D isn’t a niche hobby anymore. According to Axios, roughly 85 million people worldwide engaged with […]
Wrecked Car, Ongoing Race: How Vehicle Damage Systems Work in Arcade Racing
Author: Eric Bergmann Arcade destruction racers promise players spectacular vehicle damage that accumulates collision after collision. The technical challenge is allowing a car to be smashed to pulp without dropping the frame rate or ruining handling. In TRAIL OUT — an indie racer with over 100,000 copies sold across PC, Xbox, and PlayStation 5 — […]
Kill Block, Grind, and Why Speed Wins in MW4’s Economy
By Dana R. | Game systems writer, 6 years covering live-service design. Tested September 2026. Michael Blaker spent his Modern Warfare 4 beta review circling one word: cautious. The gunplay landed. The campaign sample held up. But Kill Block, the system gating certain unlocks behind confirmed elimination counts rather than time played, left him unsure […]
How Case Opening Platforms Are Borrowing From Competitive Gaming
If you watched the 2023 League of Legends World Championship, you saw a percentage for each team pop up on the broadcast, moving as fights swung back and forth. Riot had tried it out at the Mid-Season Invitational that May under the name “Win Expectancy.” Amazon, whose machine learning service runs it, says the model […]
V8 Power Roars To Project Motor Racing With Power Pack Launch
Publisher GIANTS Software and developer Straight4 Studios are turning up the volume in Project Motor Racing with todays’ V8 Power Pack launch. The pack brings together nine V8-powered race cars across three distinct eras of competition, plus a scanned Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. The V8 Power Pack Three new classes are set to join Project […]