There are certainly games out there that we can consider “generation-defining”, their impact on the industry and on the zeitgeist of gaming is without question. I only need to mention Half-Life, Gears of War, or The Last of Us, Halo, or the original Starcraft. Recently, we can even add the phenomenal Ghost of Tsushima to this list; these are games …

Last night had plenty of announcements, and while only a handful of them were whoa-level announcements, combined they still made for one heck of a show.

Do you hear that, Call of Duty?! You can actually make games smaller!

If you’re on a fixed bandwidth budget, it’s handy to have an estimation of just how many megabytes you’ll be spending in a game at any given time. Telecommunications site whistleout measured the approximate hourly download figures (give or take, depending on certain factors of course) for the 22 most popular games on the planet currently.

Warframe AKA what would happen if Terry Gilliam made a Destiny movie, is as big as ever and this weekend’s TennoCon 2020 had plenty of new reveals in store for the long-running free-to-play game. The biggest news coming out of the digital convention was the launch of a third open-world expansion, Heart of Deimos.

You’re stuck at home, being a responsible chap for the good of all because nobody wants to die clutching their chest in agony from a virus that is wreaking havoc on everything from going to the movies to attending a WWE event. Which now finally resembles Shakespeare in the Park but with Jackhammer slams: Weird stuff. So what do you …

To celebrate the game’s seventh birthday, Digital Extremes are handing out free loot to all players who sign in during the month of March.

So how do Digital Extremes manage to create such a game in an industry that is rife with exploitation and abuse that leads to talented developers being regarded as disposable assets? By focusing on the bigger picture and working in a manner which that defies the crunch culture which is so pervasive in the game development scene today.