We’re streaming Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice over on our Twitch channel. Wow! Join me and Tim Rogers as we pick up where we left off. As always, subscribe to us on Twitch for more streams as they happen.

The words “video game addiction” elicit reactions ranging from disbelief to outright rage, and especially from gamers who feel their hobby is being unfairly criticized. Yet first-person stories of compulsive gaming exist. In The Atlantic’s new animated documentary I Was A Winner, published today, interviewees “are embodied in animated re-creations of their gaming avatars” as…

Battlefront II is getting a capital ship assault mode. The 20 vs. 20 mode is called Capital Supremacy and will involve both a ground phase and capital ship assault. Doesn’t sound like there’s much starfighter combat though, so don’t expect a 100% repeat of 2005 Battlefront II’s fabulous ship takedown mode.

Sony is launching a new PlayStation video series called State of Play, the first episode of which is set to air March 25 at 5:00 p.m. on Twitch and YouTube. There will be trailers, gameplay footage, and new game announcements, making it sound an awful lot like a Nintendo Direct.

Vampire: the Masquerade– Bloodlines Is Getting A Sequel, And It Looks Pretty Good

Cult classic Vampire: the Masquerade– Bloodlines is getting a sequel. The 2004 roleplaying game left a lasting impression on roleplaying fans despite some clumsy gameplay. I spent time with the folks at Paradox Interactive and developer Hardsuit Labs to ask questions and see the game in action. It captures much of the original’s mysterious mood,…

Ladykiller in a Bind creator Christine Love gives a talk at GDC about sex as a reward in games. “The problem with ‘the chase’ is that it’s one-sided,” Love explained to a room of Sexy Microtalks attendees. Love instead suggests making sex a crucial and indispensible aspect of gameplay, not just a reward. When sex…

At their GDC talk this evening, Devil May Cry 5 director Hideaki Itsuno, producer Matt Walker, and senior producer Mitcheru Okabe showed up dressed as the main characters. I really want that Nero jacket!

Divinity Original Sin 2 had a disastrous production, according to director Swen Vincke, who said in a postmortem panel at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco that they didn’t finish the writing until months before the game came out. They even changed a chunk of Sebille’s origin story one week before launch. Yet it’s still,…