February 2026 – Page 72 – Prefer systems

Posted on February 20, 2026

Games

Street Fighter 2 producer Yoshiki Okamoto now makes gacha games and spends half a million dollars on each ‘to make sure the people who spend the most don’t end up dissatisfied’

Fuji TV's series Where Did That Money Go? interviews people who had it all and lost it, like game designer Yoshiki Okamoto (Sponichi Annex via...

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‘What’s your salary? I told him, and he said no problem, we’ll double. And those days are gone:’ Listening to game dev legends reminiscing in 1989 about the ‘golden days of computer games’ already being over is a trip

Instead of making a joke, Valve celebrates April Fool’s Day by rolling out a Steam storefront ‘refresh’ that makes it look much nicer

Blizzard is hiring for an ‘open-world shooter’ using Unreal Engine, which is more evidence that a new Starcraft game could be on its way

Garry’s Mod successor s&box finally arrives on Steam on April 28

Posted on February 20, 2026

Games

Life is Strange developer Don’t Nod adds a dash of Alien: Isolation anxiety to its usual cinematic formula, and I think it works

Life is Strange developer Don't Nod announced its next third-person cinematic adventure, Aphelion, during last year's Summer Game Fest with an Uncharted-like reveal set in...

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‘What’s your salary? I told him, and he said no problem, we’ll double. And those days are gone:’ Listening to game dev legends reminiscing in 1989 about the ‘golden days of computer games’ already being over is a trip

Instead of making a joke, Valve celebrates April Fool’s Day by rolling out a Steam storefront ‘refresh’ that makes it look much nicer

Blizzard is hiring for an ‘open-world shooter’ using Unreal Engine, which is more evidence that a new Starcraft game could be on its way

Garry’s Mod successor s&box finally arrives on Steam on April 28

Posted on February 20, 2026

Games

Blood Bowl creator Jervis Johnson agrees with Games Workshop’s AI ban, says ‘it allows you to be a bit lazy and not put in the effort’

Jervis Johnson is a legend in the world of tabletop game design. During almost four decades spent at Games Workshop he created Blood Bowl and...

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‘What’s your salary? I told him, and he said no problem, we’ll double. And those days are gone:’ Listening to game dev legends reminiscing in 1989 about the ‘golden days of computer games’ already being over is a trip

Instead of making a joke, Valve celebrates April Fool’s Day by rolling out a Steam storefront ‘refresh’ that makes it look much nicer

Blizzard is hiring for an ‘open-world shooter’ using Unreal Engine, which is more evidence that a new Starcraft game could be on its way

Garry’s Mod successor s&box finally arrives on Steam on April 28

Posted on February 20, 2026

Games

An Elite Dangerous player discovered a way to write new stories into the margins of the 12-year-old space sandbox, and now thousands are testing it

Elite Dangerous, the massively multiplayer spacefaring game, is known for its many ambitious storylines. The team at Frontier Developments has thrown quite a lot at...

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‘What’s your salary? I told him, and he said no problem, we’ll double. And those days are gone:’ Listening to game dev legends reminiscing in 1989 about the ‘golden days of computer games’ already being over is a trip

Instead of making a joke, Valve celebrates April Fool’s Day by rolling out a Steam storefront ‘refresh’ that makes it look much nicer

Blizzard is hiring for an ‘open-world shooter’ using Unreal Engine, which is more evidence that a new Starcraft game could be on its way

Garry’s Mod successor s&box finally arrives on Steam on April 28

Posted on February 20, 2026

Games

‘Art and science and procreation, that’s about all life is good for:’ Two former freeware developers are still trying to keep it weird in an era when companies ‘sell games to people in 5-second clips’

Talha & Jack Co⁠—the indie dev duo Jack King-Spooner and Talha Kaya⁠—are on to something special. The pair is currently working on Abide, their third...

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‘What’s your salary? I told him, and he said no problem, we’ll double. And those days are gone:’ Listening to game dev legends reminiscing in 1989 about the ‘golden days of computer games’ already being over is a trip

Month: February 2026

Street Fighter 2 producer Yoshiki Okamoto now makes gacha games and spends half a million dollars on each ‘to make sure the people who spend the most don’t end up dissatisfied’

More like this

‘What’s your salary? I told him, and he said no problem, we’ll double. And those days are gone:’ Listening to game dev legends reminiscing in 1989 about the ‘golden days of computer games’ already being over is a trip

Instead of making a joke, Valve celebrates April Fool’s Day by rolling out a Steam storefront ‘refresh’ that makes it look much nicer

Blizzard is hiring for an ‘open-world shooter’ using Unreal Engine, which is more evidence that a new Starcraft game could be on its way

Garry’s Mod successor s&box finally arrives on Steam on April 28

Life is Strange developer Don’t Nod adds a dash of Alien: Isolation anxiety to its usual cinematic formula, and I think it works

More like this

‘What’s your salary? I told him, and he said no problem, we’ll double. And those days are gone:’ Listening to game dev legends reminiscing in 1989 about the ‘golden days of computer games’ already being over is a trip

Instead of making a joke, Valve celebrates April Fool’s Day by rolling out a Steam storefront ‘refresh’ that makes it look much nicer

Blizzard is hiring for an ‘open-world shooter’ using Unreal Engine, which is more evidence that a new Starcraft game could be on its way

Garry’s Mod successor s&box finally arrives on Steam on April 28

Blood Bowl creator Jervis Johnson agrees with Games Workshop’s AI ban, says ‘it allows you to be a bit lazy and not put in the effort’

More like this

‘What’s your salary? I told him, and he said no problem, we’ll double. And those days are gone:’ Listening to game dev legends reminiscing in 1989 about the ‘golden days of computer games’ already being over is a trip

Instead of making a joke, Valve celebrates April Fool’s Day by rolling out a Steam storefront ‘refresh’ that makes it look much nicer

Blizzard is hiring for an ‘open-world shooter’ using Unreal Engine, which is more evidence that a new Starcraft game could be on its way

Garry’s Mod successor s&box finally arrives on Steam on April 28

An Elite Dangerous player discovered a way to write new stories into the margins of the 12-year-old space sandbox, and now thousands are testing it

More like this

‘What’s your salary? I told him, and he said no problem, we’ll double. And those days are gone:’ Listening to game dev legends reminiscing in 1989 about the ‘golden days of computer games’ already being over is a trip

Instead of making a joke, Valve celebrates April Fool’s Day by rolling out a Steam storefront ‘refresh’ that makes it look much nicer

Blizzard is hiring for an ‘open-world shooter’ using Unreal Engine, which is more evidence that a new Starcraft game could be on its way

Garry’s Mod successor s&box finally arrives on Steam on April 28

‘Art and science and procreation, that’s about all life is good for:’ Two former freeware developers are still trying to keep it weird in an era when companies ‘sell games to people in 5-second clips’

More like this

‘What’s your salary? I told him, and he said no problem, we’ll double. And those days are gone:’ Listening to game dev legends reminiscing in 1989 about the ‘golden days of computer games’ already being over is a trip

Instead of making a joke, Valve celebrates April Fool’s Day by rolling out a Steam storefront ‘refresh’ that makes it look much nicer

Blizzard is hiring for an ‘open-world shooter’ using Unreal Engine, which is more evidence that a new Starcraft game could be on its way

Garry’s Mod successor s&box finally arrives on Steam on April 28