The Roundup: Tides of Numenera, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, Christophe Balestra Retires, Carmack Sues Zenimax, and Dead Consoles

Hello, friends and members of the Circle! It’s Jon again, back with your weekly Roundup and taking some time to honor International Women’s Day. Women have been involved in videogames from the beginning of the industry. In fact, if it wasn’t for one profoundly intelligent woman, videogames may not even exist! Ada Lovelace is often…

The Insight: Will Gamers Flock to RuneScape 3?

BY HAROLD GOLDBERG Cheshire, England – Walking through the greenest of forests in Tarpoley, a rural town between Liverpool and Manchester, I pass daffodils and bees and newly unfolding ferns. I muck about the ruins of what may have been a cook house, and a singing blackbird flies out of a broken window. It’s the…