Spry Fox bosses slashed their salaries to buy out the studio and launch cozy MMO Spirit Crossing later this year

Indie games studio Spry Fox has had a wild couple of years: After being bought up by Netflix back in 2022, it was bought back by its founders ahead of the 2025 holiday season, in a story that seems to be a lot more common these days as megacorps forget why they even wanted to […]

Warhammer 40K Bosses Are Rejecting AI To “Respect Our Human Creators”

Joshua Robertson is a News Editor for TheGamer. When not writing about breaking news, community stories, or covering industry events, you can find him begging FromSoftware for a Bloodborne remaster. Over the past couple of years, there’s been a fairly uncomfortable rise in the use of generative AI, so much so that beloved developers such […]

Video game bosses with two health bars are good, actually

It’s probably happened to you: After bashing your head against a particularly difficult boss in a video game, you realize you’ve been duped. As you watch that boss’ depleted health bar fill up again, you realize what you thought was a victory was instead an insult. Welcome to phase two of the battle you believed […]