The Alchemist's Apprentice in the Maze of Madness

In a grim week for the games industry where Microsoft laid off 1,600 people (with 1,600 further job cuts hanging over the heads of Xbox employees) one decision stood out as especially egregious. Id Software, developer of Doom and Quake, was forced to lay off 136 people – more than half of its workforce. Read more

Games come and go, but the lingering influence of the 13 games on this list, drawn from across the decades, will always remain.

Amazon Game Studios looks to be getting out of the MMO business entirely, handing Western operations of Throne and Liberty and Lost Ark back to their respective developers. In two blog posts, Amazon Game Studios outlined its plans to transition both games to their South Korean creators in the coming months. For Throne and Liberty, that transition will happen in Q4 2026 as NC (formerly NCSoft) takes over, while Lost Ark's transition will happen in early 2027 and see Smilegate fully take the reins. While Amazon didn't develop the two games directly, it did publish both titles and handled live-se

Ahead of its September release, Marvel’s Wolverine is finding itself in the center of several social media discourses intersecting at once.

Citizen Sleeper is Disco Elysium meets Mass Effect