But members of the fledgling Raven QA union are left out Activision Blizzard yesterday announced that they’re converting temporary QA staff in the US to full-time employees, with a pay raise and benefits to boot. Worker groups are celebrating this as a victory in their ongoing mission to force the company to improve the workplace. But one group are left out: the Raven QA staff who are currently forming a union....

We go on a space dive with Mojiken Studios about their upcoming point and click game “To pay tribute, be nostalgic, and remember is the main motivation for how these games are made,” says Novan, who is also directing A Space For The Unbound. “When I was young, it was one of my dreams to make a story that was set in an Indonesian high school. That dream was heavily influenced by the activity I discovered on the internet named ‘anime pilgrimage’, an activity where a group of people try to compare real-life locations with its anime counterpart....

The latest news ahead of Gotham Knights' release When is the release date for Gotham Knights?Making a Batman game that doesn’t star Batman is a bold move, butGotham Knightsis making just such a brave play, sidelining the Dark Knight in favour of some of the young superheroes whose careers in vigilante justice he’s inspired with his nocturnal crime-fighting. And so far, the adventures of the extended Bat-family look pretty exciting....

Lynx to the past Pop your head round the door of aHardspace: Shipbreakerplanning meeting and, according to Blackbird Interactive communications lead Ben Kuchera, you might hear somebody ask: “is that a Blackbird thing, or is it a Lynx thing?” Lynx are Hardspace’s overall antagonist, and your employer - an orbital salvaging corporation that essentially enslaves workers by saddling them with a billion-credit on-boarding debt, taking the copyright on your DNA for good measure....

How Nvidia’s cheapest RTX graphics card beats its AMD rival Which, though, is the better buy? Both are 1080p-focused cards on sale for £300 or less, both sit at the bottom of their respective GPU hierarchies (the RTX 30 series and Radeon RX 6000 series), and both supportray tracing, so let’s break out the bar chart app and do some comparisons. FSR is worth turning on when you’re struggling, as seen in Horizon Zero Dawn, where the upscaler’s Ultra Quality setting boosted the RX 6400 XT from a 40fps average at 1440p up to 50fps....

RTS turtlers, take note Like Age Of Darkness, Diplomacy and almost every other RTS citybuilder before it, each level begins with the camera pulled in right up close on your central keep – the beating heart of your town that must be protected at all costs. If the keep falls, it’s game over. Pretty standard stuff, then, but what sets ORX apart is the random chaos of its ‘build-by-card-tile’ approach. Roads, farms, villages and castle walls must all be laid down one tile at a time on its map of isometric squares, and they’ve all got to be touching a card you’ve put down previously, too....

From playable characters to the release date, here’s everything we know so far. Like the Arkham series,Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice Leagueis an open world brawling action-adventure, but it will be set in Metropolis. That’s the home of Superman, for the unaware, but he isn’t acting very homely. Supes, Batman, The Flash, and Green Lantern have fallen under the mind-control influence of Brainiac, leaving them in a state of enraged chaos....

Grab Black Desert Online while you can All I really know aboutBlack Desert Onlineis that it has an amazing character creator, and that’s why I instantly claimed a free copy when I heard that the makers are giving it away right now. I’ve since read that the fantasy MMORPG is a pretty fun game too? But in all honesty, I’m downloading it mostly to make pretty/weird/monstrous wizards. First of all, the character creator is enough of a feature that the Korean YouTube has a running series giving characters makeovers....

Puck is a new game design AI from the maker of Angelina Everyone knows that making a video game is simply a matter of deciding how much graphics, sound, gameplay, and replayability you want, then clicking the “Make Game” button in Unreal. This process is now even simpler with the launch of Puck, a game-making AI you can download right now and set to work designing brand new video games for you to play....

Don’t be tempted by the relatively low price of this underpowered GPU You’d be forgiven for getting excited about the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT. A brand new RDNA 2 graphics card, withray tracingsupport, that’s both easy to find in stock and available at a comparatively approachable £200 / $230? In the midst of a years-long components shortage, exacerbated by all manner of price-gouging bollocks, it’d be entirely understandable if upgrade-starved PC owners went for this like my cat goes for unattended crisp packets....

Glory to the flesh, glory to the mass A newBack 4 Bloodtrailer gives a look at the new characters, enemies, and weapons of its upcoming first paid expansion, but forget all that. Far more important is that apparently, the new tunnels in the Tunnels Of Terror DLC are made of meat? A meatmaze? A spiralling meathell? A non-stop exploration of guts? What a feast! FromSystem Shock 2to Vampire Bloodlines, I am perhaps a little over-enthusiastic about fleshy architecture....

It’s only easy if you know the answers Have you ever encountered something that you know some people are going to absolutely love, but others will hate to their very core? What’s a good metaphor for that? If only there were a food product that had built an entire brand around the concept. I guess we’ll never know. ButChinatown Detective Agency, a beautiful, pixely, point and click puzzle game set in a cyberpunk future Singapore, has what I predict will be a pretty polarising central feature, and that is real time historical research....

Mum’s the word Like all badly behaved children, we’re guiltily celebrating Mother’s Day a week late this year on The Electronic Wireless Showpodcast. This time we’re talking about our favourite mothers in games, which basically means we’re talking about a bunch of angels and monsters. You can listen above, or onon Spotify,iTunes,Stitcher, orPocket Casts. You can find theRSS feed here, and you can discuss the episodeon our Discord channel, which has a dedicated room for podcast chat....