When Stalker 2 came out last week I was hoping it would have some new survival systems alongside its anomalies and artifacts. It’s been almost 15 years since the last Stalker game and the survival genre has really grown a lot in that interval. Maybe, I thought, Stalker 2 will have a real crafting system…
Section 9 Interactive, the studio founded in 2020 by veterans of Little Nightmares developer Tarsier Studios, has announced a publishing partnership with Epic Games that will see Epic fund the development and promotion of its in-development sci-fi action game. The deal with Epic will leave ownership and full creative control over the new game with…
There’s stiff competition for the greatest gaming comeback stories, but Cyberpunk 2077 will always be part of the conversation. CD Projekt Red was coming off the back of the outstanding Witcher 3, had all the time and money in the world, and the dream setting: Hell, it even had Keanu Reeves. Anticipation and expectation were…
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle launches in just under two weeks, bringing a heaping helping of puzzle pondering and Nazi hurting—a helping so heaping, in fact, that Machine Games says it’s the longest game the studio’s ever made. Amidst a flurry of 141 questions in a quick format interview with MinnMax, Machine Games creative…
Sublime Switch combat. Scroll through the eShop any week, and under the new releases section, you are bound to find a Metroidvania, if not several. The genre is packed with so many games that few manage to break out. However, Red Candle Games’ Nine Sols did manage to make a name for itself earlier this…
As part of today’s CD Projekt Q3 financial update, the studio has announced that Polaris, the game we like to call The Witcher 4, is now in full production. You can tell the shift to full production is a pretty big deal by the full-page slide used to announce the development shift in the group…
On October 10 2007 Valve released what is perhaps the greatest deal in gaming history: The Orange Box, a compendium of Half-Life 2 with both episodes, the long-awaited Team Fortress 2, and the unknown quantity Portal. OK, Half-Life 2 was a few years old by this point (Episode 2 was new), but every single game…
The Skulltaker is here, and he’s coming to Total War: Warhammer 3 in its new Omens of Destruction DLC this December 12. Now let’s see if I can make it through a whole article without accidentally calling it Total Warhammer 3. Announced just today, Omens of Destruction introduces “new content for the armies of Khorne,…
Epic Games has scanned the show host and media personality Geoff Keighley into Fortnite for this year’s The Game Awards Island of the Year vote, so you can encounter a lifelike version of Big G while you’re trying out all the nominees and minigames for yourself. “The Game Awards Vote in Fortnite, which debuted last…
Cities: Skylines 2 continues to lumber toward proper completion with another new patch fixing a handful of issues—including problems with custom climates, and an issue that was causing tool modes to disappear. Alas, your city’s hoteliers will remain unhappy, because their problems remain unsolved. The problem for your hospitality industry isn’t actually a lack of…