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'The dream of the tech industry is to sell off your company at an overinflated price and retire,' says actor behind Baldur's Gate 3's Karlach, 'And I feel that's being done with game studios right now'
news Actor Samantha Béart had particularly harsh words for how they're pushing AI.
An FPS studio pulled its game from Steam after it got caught linking to malware disguised as a demo, but the dev insists it was actually the victim of a labyrinthine conspiracy
news I thought this one was going to be simple when I first looked into it.
Valve's DRM was inspired by an exec's nephew, who 'used a $500 check I'd sent him for school expenses and bought himself a CD-ROM replicator… he sent me a lovely thank you note'
News "I knew he wasn't a bad kid, but there'd been this generational shift."
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's director was 'starving for new turn-based RPGs,' and figured if he wanted them, there would be others out there who'd want to play his game
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We asked two parkour athletes to rate the realism of Assassin's Creed's acrobatics, and a surprising 'crime against parkour' might actually be one of the most realistic things they saw
news You won't be surprised to learn that the leap of faith is a little too Hollywood, though.
My new most anticipated RPG let me be a kleptomaniac gourmand set loose in a noir city on a quest to make 'the perfect sandwich'
bone app the teeth Moves of the Diamond Hand has the right stuff.
The Day Before studio reportedly sues Russian website for calling infamous disaster-game a 'scam'
news Well, it certainly wasn't game of the year 2023.
One of my favorite indie RPGs is getting a follow-up made with FromSoftware's 25-year-old Super Mario Maker for first person dungeon crawlers
news I recently finished Lunacid for the first time, just in time.
Despite Disco Elysium Mobile aiming to 'captivate the TikTok user,' it looks surprisingly decent—but it's still insulting to Disco's ousted creators
news Anything "Elysium" from ZA/UM is inherently fraught.
It's another day of Disco Elysium-related announcements trying to kneecap each other: Studio ZA/UM has put out a teaser for its first new game since 2019, and it's not Disco Elysium 2
news Surely there are other ways of marketing videogames.
After suing a Disco Elysium writer to prevent him from making his own game, a tech CEO who's allegedly banned from the Disco Elysium subreddit is trying to crowdfund a spiritual successor
news I want to keep writing this sort of thing even less than you want to keep reading it.
You can theoretically beat Doom: The Dark Ages without using a gun, but 'You'd have a hard time, that's for sure,' says the game's director
news Ultra Nightmare melee and shield-only any%.
Fallout-themed Doom mod Vault 666 has multiple endings, an OP Dogmeat companion, and a Ron Perlman-impersonating narrator so good, I was worried it was AI-generated at first
news It's not AI, it's just a guy named Henry.
Doom: The Dark Ages won't end with the Slayer in a coffin waiting for the start of Doom 2016: 'That would mean that we couldn't tell any more medieval stories'
news It sounds like this prequel isn't a total bummer.
'I think only the shotguns are the same,' says Doom: The Dark Ages director, otherwise the guns are brand-new or significantly transformed
news I really like the gun that pins enemies to walls.
Parents are suing Epic over Fortnite item shop 'FOMO' timers they say are inaccurate and manipulative
news They're hoping to have the case made into a class action.
Doom: The Dark Ages already sneakily revealed its 'new Marauder,' and the devs hope he'll be just as challenging, but a little less frustrating
news He's all about parrying instead of weapon switching.
The sickest gun from Doom: The Dark Ages' trailer is called the 'Skullcrusher' and does such horrible things to demons, the game's lead dev boasts id has 'the best gore in the industry'
news "It does exactly what you think it does."
All the Avowed ending choices and epilogue-affecting decisions
grand finale Breaking down all the choices big and small.
The New Vegas remake of the Fallout 3 that never was just got its first demo, not to be confused with the straight-up remake of the cancelled Fallout 3 or, indeed, Fallout 3
news Will the real Fallout 3 please step forward?
Steam just cracked 40 million concurrent users for the first time, meaning Valve's user count was bigger than 80% of the countries in the United Nations
new Just a milly behind Canada.
Wait a minute, Geralt of Rivia actor Doug Cockle was in Baldur's Gate 3 this whole time
news Really playing against type for this one.
Avowed's rarest ending has only been seen by 0.2% of players and demands you make the correct choice at every major quest to not get your head chopped off
news Oh, and all your companions leave because they hate you.
