‘I’m not here to apologize but I am here to clarify’: Splitgate 2 boss says his Make FPS Great Again hat is ‘not a political statement’

Splitgate 2 launched a battle royale mode live at Summer Game Fest today. 1047 Games CEO and co-founder Ian Proulx took the stage himself to announce the news while slamming the state of shooters. Almost immediately, reactions to the segment weren’t as much about Splitgate 2 as Proulx’s peculiar fashion choice: a black “MAKE FPS…

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I can see why Devolver dedicated its whole show to Ball X Pit: It’s like Atari’s Breakout meets Vampire Survivors and the demo is curing my roguelike fatigue

If you’re anything like me, a Gen Z caffeine addict with the attention span of a fruit fly, ancient classics like Pong and Breakout don’t do much for you. ‘How am I supposed to play this without roguelite elements and heaps of stacking upgrades?’ I cry, and if the lesson is that sometimes less is…

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‘No one cooks anymore’: Dosa Divas is an RPG about food, death, and big robots

Outerloop’s previous RPG, Thirsty Suitors, featured an elaborate cooking minigame—complete with quick-time-event handwashing—where you had to prepare Indian cuisine as a way of impressing and subsequently bonding with your mother. What I’m saying is, they’ve got prior when it comes to games where food is important. Outerloop’s next RPG, shown off today on the Day…

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PC finally has its own Breath of the Wild killer, and it’s indistinguishable from the Nintendo game except that you are a boy who is also a tire

Beneath my television sits a small, underpowered rectangle. It’s called the ‘Nintendo Switch’ and I purchased it—in its advanced, glowing OLED form—to play Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. That is its sole purpose—filling that single hole in my PC’s gaming library (yes, yes, I know you can black-magic your way to…

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I just discovered in Dune: Awakening that the only thing worse than seeing a sandworm coming right at you is being stuck in quicksand and seeing a sandworm coming right at you

I’m an explorer at heart. Give me a big open world map and yes, I’ll harvest resources and craft gear and build a base—but what I really want to do is get out and see the world. I’m about 10 hours into survival MMO Dune: Awakening, I’ve got a snug little base, a couple flasks…

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To be a master heister in Thick as Thieves, Warren Spector’s ‘player-powered’ multiplayer Thief successor, the devs say you’ll have to ‘play with your ears’

At today’s Day of the Devs showcase, immersive sim luminary Warren Spector presented the latest on Thick as Thieves, the upcoming multiplayer Thief successor from Spector’s studio, Otherside Entertainment. Spector calls Thick as Thieves a “player-powered” immersive sim, where the flow of a match is determined by how your rival thieves are manipulating the game’s…

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Untitled Goose Game studio unpacks its new open world co-op game Big Walk, and it looks like nothing else I’ve played before

The team behind Untitled Goose Game announced Big Walk in late 2023, and even though its description was pretty straightforward—”a cooperative multiplayer adventure about teamwork and talking” —there’s still a lot of mystery around it. What kind of teamwork will it require? Are there any goals? What are those weird wobbly spheric creatures, and can…

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