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Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry director: ‘We redo too much stuff’
Do you remember Far Cry Primal? Ubisoft’s prehistoric spinoff was pitched as an intriguing departure from the formula, in which players would leave their jeeps and helicopters behind to embrace life at the dawn of the Mesolithic period. They would tread lightly between the Carpathian mountains, taking down saber-toothed cats as a club-wielding tribesman with…
My latest obsession is this vampire cathedral PC mod, so I spoke to the creators: ‘We can do Bloodborne on the PC—not on PC, on the PC’
Not everyone wants a black box desktop. Yes, a bit of RGB lighting certainly perks up the samey cuboid silhouette of a gaming rig, but what about those of us who want something with just a bit more personality? Something—dare I say it—a wee bit Extra? How about a 3D printed cathedral kit that magnetically…
Get up to 85% off the Dead Space games in EA’s franchise sale, including Motive’s excellent remake that will probably never see a successor
In space, no one can hear you scream “The Dead Space remake is 85% off!” So it’s a good thing that I’m not in space, or, indeed, screaming. Yes, EA is currently selling all the Dead Space games in a way that won’t cost you an arm and a leg, including Visceral Games’ trilogy and…
“That’s My Fault” – If This Elder Scrolls’ Dungeon Made You Want To “Tear Your Eyes Out”, Here’s Who To Blame
“That initial dungeon, the very first one you start the game in, that was mine.”. If you’ve ever attempted to play The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, you’ll know that it doesn’t exactly get off to the easiest of starts. Dumped into the tutorial dungeon, it’s not uncommon for players to round the first set of…
The creator of Stephen’s Sausage Roll has released a new puzzle-platformer where you play as an egg, in the latest example of a developer fallen to the sunny side
Late last year, I wrote about a bizarre moment when game developers suddenly became obsessed with eggs for some reason. Then everybody pointed out all the games about eggs that I didn’t mention in the article, as if the goal was to create an exhaustive list of egg-based games and not observe a general trend….
Q*Bert – An Arcade classic is coming to the Amstrad CPC Plus, with a beta now available!
In 1982 Gottlieb released a very famous game that had an orange character with a long snout as a nose, it just had to be the isometric arcade game with puzzle elements of ‘ Q*Bert ‘. It was so popular in fact it appeared on many systems such as the Atari 2600 and the C64…
Throwback XCOM successor Xenonauts 2 leaves early access in April, though the developer says the milestone ‘doesn’t mean our work is done’
XCOM 3 may still be nothing more than a glint in Firaxis’ compound eye, but Steam’s digital walk-in freezer is bursting with alternative tactical lifeforms to dissect. These range from Julian Gollop’s own attempt to modernise XCOM in Phoenix Point, to The Long War creators’ absurdly complex Terra Invicta, which blows out X-COM’s alien invasion…
Random Game Saturday: Macross M3 (Sega Dreamcast) – A Game I Hate To Love
Do you remember loving this bad video game? I have a love/hate relationship with Macross M3. As any Macross fan will tell you, the popular anime series has a sketchy history when it comes to video game adaptations. For every Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Scrambled Valkyrie, there are multiple flops, and prior to picking up…
Feature: What Naughty Dog Did Was Inexcusable” – Crash Bandicoot And Jak & Daxter Artist Charles Zembillas On Why Independence Is The Key
“Work-for-hire is not the way we should be doing things”. Charles Zembillas isn’t the type of person to stay quiet when he feels he’s been disrespected. He’s aware that may make him seem like a bit of a “firebrand” to some. But it’s something he feels has been necessary to set the record straight, given…
22 years later, this classic Half-Life zombie survival mod shambles onto Steam with all new features
Before Valve reinvented cooperative gaming with Left 4 Dead, there was Zombie Panic! A mod for the original Half-Life, Zombie Panic! pitted groups of players against a single, player-controlled brain-muncher. Which doesn’t sound all that challenging, except that any survivors killed by the zombie would rise again as zombies themselves, slowly turning the tide against…
