Opinion
Video Games Weekly: Censorship, shrinkage and a Subnautica scandal
Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who’s covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the…
Video Games Weekly: Who put all these videos in my games?
Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who’s covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the…
Video Games Weekly: The one that happened while the Waymos burned
Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who’s covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the video game…
ChatGPT’s Memory Limit Is Frustrating — The Brain Shows a Better Way
If you’re a ChatGPT power user, you may have recently encountered the dreaded “Memory is full” screen. This message appears when you hit the limit of ChatGPT’s saved memories, and it can be a significant hurdle during long-term projects. Memory is supposed to be a key feature for complex, ongoing tasks – you want your…
10 superheroes who deserve to star in their own AAA games
The past couple console generations have seen truly spectacular solo superhero video games — but they mostly all star Spider-Man or Batman. Comic books are so full of engaging heroes, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe has proven that people are willing to ride with lesser-known heroes. So I think it’s about time more superheroes get…
The GTA 6 trailer makes Rockstar’s changed politics very clear
Back in 2022, Bloomberg reported that “Rockstar Games cleaned up its frat-boy culture – and Grand Theft Auto, too.” The changes took shape in different ways, from less crunch to a narrowing of the gender pay gap for workers at the studio, and to the introduction of the game’s first playable female character, a Latina…
Don’t think of Better Man as a music biopic — it’s a must-see fantasy spectacle
For American audiences, at least, the movie musical Better Man is a fairly hard sell. It’s an odd-sounding project — a music biopic with the leading man replaced by a CG chimp, built around the career of an international superstar and former boy-band member who’s never really broken through in the States. Americans don’t share…
Why queer characters often feel ‘too safe’
This is a story about fear and anxiety. It’s also about Taash, the fire-breathing qunari companion in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. When I was playing through the game for my review, they were one of my favorite folks to have along on missions. There are various reasons why and some are just practical: I was…