The rights to one of the greatest PC games of all time languished in the vault of a Midwestern insurance firm until a frustrated player bugged them about a re-release, ‘But they asked me if I wanted to do System Shock 3’

Speaking to Nightdive founder Stephen Kick and VP of business development Larry Kuperman at this year’s Game Developers Conference, I was curious about how it felt to be returning to System Shock 2 for the studio’s upcoming remaster. After all, I had a loose understanding that Shock 2 is the game that kicked off Nightdive…

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Superb city-builder Against the Storm will round off its roster with a DLC of bats, who ‘take pride in enduring what breaks others and cannot stand being favored’

Against the Storm is one of the best city-builders of recent years, taking the SimCity cycle of building cities destined to be destroyed by natural disasters and infusing it with a roguelike structure, such that the death of your city is merely a part of the game, rather than the end of it. Yet alongside…

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In ‘a bit of an experiment’ Rust’s latest update makes softcore mode even softer, and some changes may be brought over ‘to the vanilla game in future’

Rust is, famously, an unforgiving affair, a survival game where someone murdering you and stealing everything you own is also known as ‘Tuesday’. But Facepunch’s open-world cruelty simulator does have at least one merciful bone in its emaciated, battle-scarred body. In 2021, Facepunch added a softcore mode, which mitigates some of the vanilla game’s brutality…

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Pacific Drive’s ‘largest ever’ update adds endless expeditions to the vehicular survival game, but it’s a big change to how saving works that has me pondering a reinstall

Pacific Drive received its “largest ever free content update” this week, one which introduces a brand new way of playing Ironwood Studios’ vehicular survival game. But you’d better step away from the newswheel, bucko, because I’m hijacking this article for my own devious ends. While the headline addition of the update is some fancy-sounding expeditions,…

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Dishonored and Prey’s director says ‘I could see myself working on Dishonored 3 right now’ but the chances of that happening is in the realms of ‘science fiction’

Of all the unmade sequels that I’d like to exist, Dishonored 3 is at the top of the list. The original Dishonored ranks among my favourite games ever (especially when you throw in its incredible expansions), while Dishonored 2 is generally regarded as one of the best games of all time. Sadly, a third game…

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