An HR advisor with a background in recruitment and HRIS functions, with a passion for video games and writing. Oliver grew up playing Call of Duty with his siblings and has garnered 1000s of hours ...

The New Scientist Book Club moved from the dystopian near-future imagined by Grace Chan in Every Version of You in November to the utopian far-future imagined by Iain M. Banks in The Player of Games ...

Tutorials might well be the bane of the video game industry's existence. Teaching a player how to do something is surprisingly difficult to do. Even if a developer crafts an educational and ...

“Itchie”, a Japanese programmer and producer who used to work at game companies like Square and SNK, recently took to X to reflect on a fallacy that tripped him up earlier in his career as a developer ...

Movement is something we might take for granted in games. Characters are expected to move in certain ways, and controls are often similar across games (an A button to jump, clicking in a left stick to ...

Netflix is acquiring Estonian startup Ready Player Me, a company creating "cross-game avatar tech" that allows players to bring their digital personas with them to different games, the company's CEO ...

Netflix will soon let customers make their own customized gaming avatars — which will travel across the streamer’s collection of titles — through the acquisition of Ready Player Me, an avatar-creation ...

Whether your squad is playing together from the couch or remotely, these are the best co-op games to try right now. Evan Zimmer has been writing about finance for years. After graduating with a ...

With such a resounding sweep from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, I kind of expected the Players' Voice award at The Game Awards 2025 to follow the trend. Or, at the very least, I expected a game like ...

This video compares Minecraft Java Edition and Bedrock Edition, highlighting the differences in gameplay, features, mechanics, and player experience. It showcases how each version handles combat, ...