It’s been a rough week for BioWare veterans trying their hands at new things: Two days after former BioWare general manager Casey Hudson announced the closure of Humanoid Origin, former Mass Effect lead writer and creative director Mac Walters has been forced to “pause operations” at Worlds Untold, just one year after it was founded….
Riot’s anticheat, Vanguard, is a pretty sturdy system in the world of competitive multiplayer online gaming. Well, it would have to be—otherwise, Riot probably wouldn’t offer $100,000 to anyone who could seriously pick it apart. The bounty system has been in place pretty much since Valorant was first launched a few years ago, but the…
You’re skipping through the woods, not a care in the world—except, perhaps, the fire spewing out of the ground, or the weird gravitational anomaly sucking and crushing everything in its vicinity, or maybe the invisible mutants that will strike without warning. Such is life in Stalker 2‘s Zone. But aside from those things? Life is…
We’re wait-Ing. So… where is it? When Metroid Prime Remastered launched on 9th February 2023, we were utterly convinced that its sequels, Prime 2: Echoes and Prime 3: Corruption, would follow suit sometime after. Now that 2025 is fast approaching, our certainty has waned, yet we remain confident that Nintendo will complete the saga on…
Category: ID@Xbox November 27, 2024 Indie Selects for November (and Some Cool Announcements!) Raymond Estrada, Jessica Ronnell, Andrei Pascaru, Nick ZuclichID@Xbox Awkward Conversation Monitors The holiday season is upon us, and the ID@Xbox team is thrilled to showcase this month’s picks for Indie Selects. But first, we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone…
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Benjamin Ree, director of The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, about his project—which follows the well-documented life of Mats ‘Ibelin’ Steen, a World of Warcraft player with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). DMD is one of many muscular dystrophy conditions, and is considered to be one of the most severe,…
Learn to work together in a hilarious co-op adventure, think tactically to survive and outsmart the perfect organism, then discover and tame new species with the PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for December. It Takes Two, Aliens: Dark Descent and Temtem launch December 3 for PlayStation Plus members1. But before we take a closer look at…
Indiana Jones & The Iron Phoenix was in development at LucasArts between 1993 to 1994. When it comes to the history of Lucasfilm Games and LucasArts, there is no shortage of compelling “What ifs”, with the studio having a veritable graveyard of projects that were killed before they had a chance to reach the market….
Hi everyone! My name is Juan Martinez, executive producer at Fatshark and part of the Warhammer 40,000: Darktide team. I’d like to welcome all PlayStation players to the four-player co-operative grimdark experience we have created. Today we opened access to Warhammer 40,000: Darktide for PS5 players who pre-ordered the Imperial Edition. We are super excited…
Giving up freedoms and privacy for a mirage of promised safety is very 1990s-coded. So, with this in mind, it seems like an apt moment to talk about Ricochet’s continued struggles with the 1991 period piece Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. Players have a pretty rocky relationship with Activision’s anticheat software—mostly thanks to its…